Meet Iryna Tatarenko, our graduate, editor-in-chief of PANORAMA magazine (UIA logbook). She has interviewed Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Quentin Tarantino, Fred Derts (“Limp Bizkit”), Catherine Deneuve, Miley Kunis and etc.
And today she told us about her life during her student years, studies and shared her warmest impressions.
Tell us about your journey after SSU
I moved to Kyiv and got a job first as a bank loan expert, later as a publicist for a magazine, and later as a publicist for an airline, but eventually went into journalism anyway. Because I always dreamed of this profession. She interviewed Ukrainian Territory A stars for school radio and wrote articles for a student newspaper. So, when I found myself in Kyiv, I almost immediately wrote letters to the editors of my favorite magazines at the time, Cosmopolitan and Maxim. Of course, I was not answered. I was not upset. In parallel with her main work, she received her second higher education at the Shevchenko Institute of Journalism of the Kyiv National University and wrote for various publications. She wrote a lot. I was inspired by stories about the hard work of famous authors.
Please tell us about your student years. What were they like?
Wonderful, full of events and acquaintances, absolutely carefree and somewhat meaningless – I think, like most students. We took part in the Golden Integral and the KVN. We slept with a synopsis under the pillow, because according to the “legend”, it helps. However, I do not know for what? To earn insomnia – yes, to master the material – no.
What is the most interesting and difficult thing in student life?
The most interesting thing is to use the opportunities that are everywhere to move towards the dream. Thanks to SSU, I had a chance to develop my journalistic skills during my studies. I wrote articles for the student newspaper Resonance.
The most difficult thing, both in students and in adult life – to set priorities and determine what is important and what is secondary. Do not lose faith in yourself and go to your dreams. You can’t go, you have to at least lie down in her direction. (Smiles.)
Which subject did you like the most?
I think as long as a person needs knowledge – he has a chance to become a better version of himself. (Smiles.) What I liked most was the subjects directly related to my specialty, management. I was lucky – my teacher of management was Oleg Fedorovich Balatsky, a world-class scientist. Each lesson was not like a regular pair, you had to “turn on the brains.” This is something that suited me very well in life and in my profession.
What kind of teacher do you still remember?
I remember every teacher well. I remember with what inspiration and subtle irony Arkady Yurievich Zhulavsky spoke about important economic indicators and calculations. Then try not to subtract to the fourth digit after the comma at least some of the indicators of profitability and profitability of the enterprise. I remember that Hanna Alexandrovna Shvindina welcomed creativity in management, saying: “It is creativity that allows a manager to go beyond the acquaintance and find new unique solutions and original ideas.”
It is remembered how Oleksandr Mykhailovych Telizhenko set a condition that he would take credit only for those students who read Orwell’s “1984” and Yerofeev’s “Moscow-Petushki”.
What did studying at FEM give you?
Now I work as the editor-in-chief of Panorama, if you use UIA airlines, we meet with you from time to time. (Smiles.) The editor-in-chief’s job is not about writing, creativity and parties, it’s about pure crisis management. Because, in addition to planning, forecasting and achieving goals, you must be prepared for an unforeseen situation at each stage of preparation of the magazine, which has a clear format, strict deadlines and many other details – the solution of which you must anticipate in advance.
Your wishes to teachers and students of FEM.
Students – to “gather” and properly dispose of the amount of time that you are allocated for training. The formula “who did not waste his studenthood, did waste it” – does not work. You now have many options and you need to not lose this chance.
Teachers have less pity for student laziness. And more patience for lack of life experience. Even if we students are behaving unbearably right now, the time will come and we will remember you with gratitude. Tested on my own experience. (Smiles.)
