{"id":1879,"date":"2017-05-01T14:33:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T14:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:14:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:14:25","slug":"salina-ba-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/2017\/05\/01\/salina-ba-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Salina (BA 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salina (BA 2012)<\/span> graduated from the School of English, Communication and Philosophy<\/a>\u00a0with a BA in English Language. She now puts her language skills to use as a studio manager in Canada.<\/p>\n

I grew up in a multilingual household so I\u2019ve always been curious about language \u2013 especially coming from London where there is so much diversity. The English Language<\/a> course at Cardiff University appealed to me because it covered language in a way that many people take for granted, things like attitudes to accents or what how people with language disorders communicate \u2013 I find it all fascinating.<\/p>\n

Cardiff struck the right balance for me. It\u2019s a small, yet lively city and it\u2019s full of character. I remember walking through Alexandra Gardens and falling in love with it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After graduating I tried my hand at being a teaching assistant but it wasn’t for me. I then spent a couple of years working for the marketing department of a national children\u2019s charity. It\u00a0was hugely rewarding to know that the work I was doing was helping children in crisis \u2013 even if it was indirectly.<\/p>\n

I now work for a small media and design startup company in Vancouver, Canada! I was lucky to find a job that allowed me to continue my career, as well as fund my travels. My role is studio manager, which involves managing a design team of five, account management and some copywriting\/proofreading. It\u2019s a varied job and I enjoy the challenges that come with meeting client deadlines. The best part is that I get to work on exciting creative projects every day!<\/p>\n

Language plays a huge role in my job, whether it\u2019s adapting my writing style to different audiences or simply spotting typos when proofreading. I manage a lot of design projects so knowing how visual communication works is paramount \u2013 most of that comes from instinct or learning on the job, but my degree\u00a0gave me a solid base to begin with.<\/p>\n

Cardiff University is great to go to for a good experience, no matter what you\u2019re into or how social you think you are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While studying I enjoyed working part time for the Disability and Dyslexia Service. My job was to take notes for other students who weren\u2019t able to themselves and I got to sit in on a lot of very interesting lectures outside of my own field of study.<\/p>\n

My future aspirations are simple \u2013 to be content living within my means, working within a career that I enjoy and pays the bills, surrounded by my loved ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Salina graduated from the School of English, Communication and Philosophy with a BA in English Language. She now puts her language skills to use as a studio manager.","protected":false},"author":934,"featured_media":1931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,71,38],"tags":[129,112,111],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-humanities-social-sciences","category-english-communication-philosophy","category-our-alumni","tag-cardiff","tag-english-and-communications","tag-our-alumni"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}