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It’s a challenge. There’s a lot of good work to do. I’ve discovered that (this is going to sound so mushy) that I have not had any passion for my work in a long time, and in a very short time at the EHC, I have found that again. I love this work. It’s good work. It’s something that humanity really needs, and that’s why I want to do it.Loading...
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The first thing is something Brian said, which is “the goal of this is basically to put ourselves out of a job.” The second thing is the sense of community. People really care, it’s kind of shocking in this day and age that people care about anything, and people do really care.Survivor! Even when I was so low in my life, it has been like a phoenix, I just rise up again. Adversity has just made me who I am. There is a time to sit down and cry a little, but then there is a time to say OK I’ve had my cry and it’s time to go back to work.
I see and understand my job as being a job; at the end of the day it’s a job. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give everything you have all the time. I love seeing the final product and how people receive it. I love to understand and get to that point; it doesn’t matter if I am manipulating media or writing a story, I love seeing how it affects somebody’s life. Especially with media and IT, in this day and age it’s so exciting because you can reach people through writing and visually; there are so many ways, so many humans, so many different ways, and ways to get those contexts across. It goes even further with the EHC because there are 46 countries and English is not everyone’s first language, so we really have to think about how we reach all those people and how we present ourselves and our objectives in a very different way than we have done in the past.
I am. And I accidentally discovered this in life, which was the strangest thing. I was a teacher for so long, and then I started designing websites and writing press releases and realised I really love this, I really love what I am doing, and I completely found it by accident.
…a lot of work, to say the least! Priority number 1 was to get the websites up to date and we’ve done that. My colleagues did such a magnificent job but it needed to be overhauled quickly and quietly, and we’ve done that. The next priority was to start thinking long-term, especially with branding, and really that across all of our communications we have the same look, the same feel, the same message, which is what we’re doing now. And the last thing is to showcase our accomplishments and abilities – all of our content – in a creative and dynamic way. People see us from the front-end, but I don’t think they realise how much work behind-the-scenes is going on. In the past the EHC simply didn’t have time to show everything to the outside world, so that’s another thing I want to do.
That I speak Norwegian and lived in lots of different places, like Greenland. That is a little strange for some people:)