London and commuting

After the first couple of weeks I thought why not share it all. Please note my observations may have already been made before by commuters but I am new and wide eyed to this whole experience.

May I first say the placement is going great and every body at the museum of London has been good and helpful, giving me briefs and responding to my work! I think it does confirm what I want to do when I grow up though. I don’t want to be the tech guy who sits in the corner or the freelancer that sits in the corner of his own house or office. As I am in the marketing office I think it has opened my mind to marketing and the job opportunities in interactive marketing. Whether that be marketing interactive products like games, or it be organising interactive marketing for whom ever.

Onwards with the rest of my observations.

Commuting after the first couple of days of getting on the wrong trains and connections the excitement obviously wars of so you have to make your own excitement….

Introducing Vic’s daily commuting social experiments

The first social experiment I tried was the smile challenge.

I noticed how grumpy and grey everybody was on the tube so I deeded to cheer them up, if not only to stop them bringing my normal cheery demeanour down.

How?

Well I thought if I looked happy then maybe an other person would look at me and think “oh I thought I had to be grumpy on the train…. Well this is the day that that changes” and smile or grin or at least not frown.

They didn’t, I just got funny looks which made me laugh inside and there for smile more. I think this experiment would work if a group of 5 commuters got on the train and all smiled as individuals, power in numbers and all. I think then people are such sheep on the tube, with their white earphones in, so would follow suite and all start smiling, hi5ing and perhaps breaking into song.I’m not sure if this experiment worked. I did not get people smiling but I did cheer myself up no end so I think its: Vic = 1 the London underground =1