In class today my professor, Eva Keiser, presented a slide that read 'Juggling Plates' and showed an amusing photograph of a man juggling numerous plates on sticks. I was puzzled at first to any relevance this had to public relations, until Eva began to explain its purpose. Throughout the entire semester our class has been given a heavy course load of assignments geared towards preparing us for the public relations field. However, developing our familiarity with public relations writing wasn’t the only goal Eva had in mind when creating the syllabus. She explained a main part of our schedule was based on how public relations professionals operate, always having a million things going at one time.
Public relations professionals are trained to juggle relationships with clients, news releases, social media and anything else they can get their hands on. It’s similar to how my life has felt lately with this course and everything else in my college career. There are always relationships, meetings, leadership positions and assignments that I juggle on a daily basis. I’ve had my times when parts of what I am juggling fall, but part of my learning experience is figuring out how to pick them back up and keep juggling. Therefore, since Eva highlighted this as the main outcome of her course, public relation professionals are paid to juggle and my life is one major juggling act currently, it seemed only fitting that what I am focusing this blog on my time spent juggling. So prepare for posts regarding personal experiences of both successful and not so successful juggling, valuable content to encourage successful juggling, interesting information relating to the field of journalism and public relations, and whatever else enters my head.
