Future Vocational Narrative

First choose a job you may actually want to pursue as a career after graduating.
(PR Account Manager at an arts organization)

Second, choose a vocational narrative motif and archetypes that we discussed in class Use the underdog Archetype

Third, write a paper with a fictional, but realistic, story using the elements and outline listed below about what job/career/professional activity you would like to be doing five years after graduation, including:
1) How you pursue that job,
2) How you get the job,
3) What the experience of working that the job is like (what the people, place, culture, work like),
4) A dramatic success or failure you may have while working that job,
5) What happens after that dramatic success or failure?

Dramatic Structure Elements Outline for Papers:

1. Introduction/opening/ Purpose
2. Set up:
   Using elements of Burke’s Pentad:
   Act/plot
   Scene/setting,
   Agents/characters
   Agency/means of action
   Purpose/motives/theme
3. Dramatic tension
4. Climax
5. Dénouement / resolution

Sample Solution