Me...A Guest Speaker

Today I was a guest speaker for an Interior Design "Professional Practices" course at Western Michigan University! If you know me at all you would be asking yourself what I asked myself: Who would let me speak to impressionable young adults on purpose? Well, let me explain.

I got a call from the professor, Beth Jarl, last night. She had a speaker all lined up and they got sick or something. Beth then called Meghan at TMP, who was too busy to fill in, but gave her my name and I decided to do it. It seemed like a good reason to roll out of bed and get dressed.

So even though I was like the third string I got a chance to tell a bunch of seniors about my professional life post graduation. I didn't really have much time to prepare and Beth asked me not to dwell to long on the "lay off." (Isn't that crazy...she didn't want me to freak them out too bad with the economic crisis.) So I talked in my usual fast paced, sporadic, mess of a vocabulary and hopefully wasn't a total let down to the profession!

I even think I was able to sucker a young lady into interning at TMP with Meghan. (Pro bono of course!)

Beth told me that the Interior Design program at WMU and other colleges around the country are in need of NCIDQ certified Designers with a Master's degree to teach the Interior Design curriculum. So keep that in your back pocket!