I’m home for a couple weeks for the holidays, and the task of finding summer employment is fast approaching. While I admit that the kinds of employment I’m interested in aren’t exactly maintstream, I know that there are a few things I’ll be getting done in the next week while “resting” at home.

1.-Business/Personal Cards

I’m tired of having no cards to hand out and resort to not maintaining contact with people I meet or havign to give them an old card for a student startup I worked pm that stopped operating a year ago. How embarrassing is it to say: “Oh here’s my information, but actually, it’s all wrong…” That will be fixed! I promise.

2.-Online Portfolio

I actually setup this blog and my website while at home as well. My current “portfolio” page is old, and to my recent horror, not finished at all. This isn’t to say that it gets much traffic, but it is sad that I have a partially completed product up on my website.

3.- Design Portfolio

The last time I worked on this I came up with an idea for a vision in my design portfolio, which hopefully would have gotten across to employers Olin’s approach to user-oriented design and the projects I’ve done relating to this. Since then I’ve had friends who have actually implemented the idea fairly well, but now I feel odd about actually making my portfolio the way I originally anticipated. 

Before I leave I will have an update to my resume, as well as the three described above. January will be my time to find internships. For those who are still reading, I’m interested in working in either San Diego for a design firm or Silicon Valley for a startup. Sigh…ideally of course.