Love Slave to My Dev Chapter 22

22 Chasing My Dream

This was my first official day at work in the designs departnt. As instructed, I headed to my departnt and t my ntor there. The stern-looking lady was waiting for , and I could tell that she was quite senior in the company. She led

to the boss’s room to introduce

to my boss. She was the head of my departnt and also soone that I looked up to very much after having seen many of her work in public and reading many interviews that she gave online and in business journals.

“Hello, my na is Lauren and I am the head of the design departnt here at Jessens and Hill’s. It’s a pleasure to have you here with us,” my boss said.

I looked up at the lady who smiled politely at

in awe. I respected her and revered her talent. Apart from that comrcial that changed my life, she is another main reason why I wanted to join this company. I smiled in return as I thought about how much closer I had gotten to the start of realizing my dreams. From today on, I will get to work with Lauren.

“I’m Karina Miller. It’s nice to et you too. Thank you for having . I look forward to working here,” I replied politely.

She nodded her head in acknowledgent. Before signaling for the older woman to take

to my seat. There was an empty desk and chair prearranged for . After settling in, I introduced myself to my new colleagues. Two employees were selected to act as my buddies. One was a woman with light blonde hair and very long eyelashes.

“Hi. My na is Katie. It’s nice to et you. I’ll be your buddy from today. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask , I’ll help you out,” Katie said as she smiled at .

I could sense that she was very friendly, and I hoped that we would get along.

“I’m Karina. It’s nice to et you too. I look forward to working with you,” I replied politely with a friendly smile.

“My na is Dan. I’ve been here for almost five years now, so if you need any help, don’t hesitate to ask . I look forward to working with you,” Dan said politely.

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My other buddy who seed more senior than Katie, introduced himself. He was a tall and thin man with brown hair and a very wide smile. I could feel their genuine generosity to help

out at work, and I felt extrely thankful to have such supportive colleagues.

“Let

walk you through what we do here at the design departnt. Although, you’ve probably heard as part of the job description already of what we do, I’d still like to walk you through just to show you the ropes. Well then, if you’ll just head this way,” Dan said as he led the way to a small eting room.

Katie followed after us. After setting up his computer, Dan flashed so slides on the presentation screen.

“Here at the design departnt, we focus mainly on the storyline of advertisents based on the demands of our clients. The process starts out with pitching to our potential client. Our company will receive requests from clients such as the scope of what they want their advertisent to be about, their products, so on and so forth. Then, based on the scope outlined by the client, we as the design departnt, would co up with storylines and storyboards that we would pitch to the client. Our ideas of what the advertisent should be like,” Dan explained.

“Of course, we are very active in the design of the storyboard, and we are also active in the presentation to the client. If our company and our idea is selected for the advertisent, then we would work with the production and the planning team in order to plan the production of the advertising. We would also get involved with the execution of the production to make sure that it matches with what we had in mind when we designed the storyboard and the storyline,” Katie chid in.

Dan continued explaining each phase in more detail as he pointed to the associated elents on the presentation slides. Katie sat silently by my side as she also listened in to Dan’s presentation. Frankly, what he described was like a dream co true for . It was all that I ever wanted to do as my job. Using my creativity and imagination to bring a storyline to life in an advertisent. It was what I had always wanted to do after seeing that comrcial on that fateful day. I wanted people to feel the emotions and the underlying ssages in the advertisent that I had designed.

“Do you have any questions?” Dan asked after he had finished explaining everything.

“No questions at all. It’s very clear. Thank you so much, Dan,” I replied honestly.

“That’s great. Then let

show you around the office a little more. And I’ll also introduce you to other team mbers,” Katie suggested enthusiastically as she got up from her seat.

I didn’t get my first project assigned to

on that day, so I spent a lot of ti just shadowing Katie and Dan to see what they were doing as part of their daily work. When lunchti arrived, we went out for lunch together at the cafeteria in the building. Dan had a eting in the afternoon, and I was allowed to sit in and observe. After that, Dan prepared edits to the storyline based on his client’s feedback. He was working on an advertisent for a chain of fitness gyms.

“The client told

that they wanted to add a bit more of a healthy angle to the whole storyline, so here I’m adjusting to put in the other services that they provide such as nutritional advice and programs,” Dan explained to , as he pointed to the storyboard, that he had on his computer.

“Do you have a eting with your clients soon?” I asked.

“Yes, the eting is coming up next week. That’s why we’re working so hard. If I could just get the storyboard approved by the client, then we can move on to more in-depth design, planning, and then production,” he explained.

“Good luck. I’m sure that you can do it,” I said encouragingly.

Dan turned to smile at

and nodded.

“Would you like to join the client eting next week? If you are still free?” he offered.

“Sure, I’m sure that I’ll learn a lot from it,” I said, feeling thankful.

I continued observing Dan working for the rest of the day. He was kind enough to pause here and there to explain to

what he was doing and the importance of what he was doing. Towards the end of the workday, I got a ssage from Kyle.

–To be continued...