cause you know how it feels...
Yesterday was overall pretty exhausting. I went to "Career Day" as put on by a fashion organization that the head of my department is really
involved in. It was pretty interesting. There was a very small job fair. I was kind of disappointed to find out four of the companies there
were strictly looking for sales people. Now, if worse comes to worse, I'll end up being a saleperson until something better comes along...
but if the only change at promotion is some type of manager...then I know that's not where I want to be. I think I am capable of being more
than a saleperson. And if I ever got to the point of being a store manager...why not just run my own store? You know?
Anyway, there was only one job there I was semi-interested in. The job consisted of using a computer (I can deal with that), traveling,
and assembling merchandise/clothing for models for events. Seemed quite interesting. They probably won't call me. But I can still hope...
after all, they really stressed that they are looking for someone with strong computer skills...and it's kind of implied all over my resume
that I can deal with computers.
A disheartening thing happened to me while talking to some representatives from Saks. They asked if I would be willing to relocate. I would not
mind...but I don't want to live in NYC--->no thank you. Anyway, I said, "To be completely honest, I want to work IN Detroit." They got this delightful
look on their face and started naming off all the Saks locations in the area (there are NO national department stores IN downtown Detroit).
They completely missed what I was saying.
I spent the rest of the day taking a nap, eating Chinese food, and then working on my presentation. I have to present my research on Detroit retail
on Thursday. I was super super freaked out about it...but last night, I actually stopped working on it because it was turning out to be not so bad to
assemble. Kind of have a lot of stuff going on (school wise) this week. German test. Senior seminar exam. Have to turn in my resume and portfolio
to be evaulated (I assembled my portfolio this morning, so I feel even less stressed out now). I have another paper due. And I have to present. I also
have to do 2 labs for visual merchandising and then we have a display to assemble on Friday. After all that crap, I just need to worry about making
the presentation board for my store for vis merch and then write the rest of my senior sem paper by April 20th.
So today, like I said, I assembled my portfolio. I put four of my architecture projects in it...things I was either proud of or projects I thought
were relevant to merchandising/retail. Then I took two naps on two seperate occasions...probably getting an additional four hours of sleep. I feel so much
better, though. I've totally been dragging the past couple of days...guess I needed the sleep.
