Ohai guys!
Yes. Upon moving all business related posts to my SPIFFTASTIC BLOGGER (which you should really follow) my LJ shall now descend into the depths of my bored mind. Yes.
So I've basically been really bored lately. My two commissions are going slowly due to a number of set backs (vanishing lace, machine malfunctions, etc) and I've just been really frustrated. I'm DEFINITELY GOING TO CALL UP ABOUT A JOB TOMORROW. They aren't looking (although their website says they're "always looking for new people" which is encouraging?) but it looks like a pretty cool place to work. I emailed my CV and cover letter and such about a week and a half ago and haven't heard anything back. I would've called earlier but then you start second guessing yourself - wouldn't it be better to call on a monday, etc.
Blarg. I'm considering a number of options. I need to get my head around them, work out the details, income possibilities, and all such good things. I like to have a plan before I go into things. I didn't have a plan going into South Seas/Quitting it, and look how well that turned out. I mean, I like sitting around at home watching crappy sci-fi shows and sewing, but I have practically no interaction with REAL people, especially cause all my business is through the web.
Sometimes it feels like my entire life is in the computer. Which is particularly sad when you consider my computer is an old family computer we traded a car for second hand back in 2002 which I inherited. It runs XP home, and freezes when I open an internet browser. DFLKJS. On the plus side I recently got upgraded to a thirty gig broadband plan, so MOAR DOWNLOADING FOR MEEEEE.
So, what I'm thinking of (in order of preference, though I'm not cemented in these opinions:
1. Get a job working in a bridal store or costume studio. Preferable. I'd get to work in the industry I want, get paid a decent (hopefully full time) wage, which would allow me to move into a nice one bedroom in town after a little while. Or at least rent out a studio space to do my stitching work in, as well as save save save.
2. Get a crappy retail job. I say crappy because apparently running your own business making clothes doesn't qualify you to work the cash register at a clothing store. LSDkFJ. I wish I'd worked more through highschool. People are more likely to hire inexperienced children than two year graduates with no "real skills". Said retail job would supplement the growth of my freelance and pay for materials and the like. Doesn't further my chances of a studio space or moving out of the 'burbs.
3. Tied to option 2. Get said crappy retail job, save for Uni, go to uni. Be a uni student. Study fashion design, major in costume design come third year. Get horribly into debt. I will, however, be taken more seriously in job applications as well as potentially getting a good paying job.
4. Apply for (and hypothetically get) the BBC design trainee scheme. I mean, I can live and work legally in the UK for two years, and I have an aunt who would be happy to let me live with her while I was there. FANTASTIC experience which could possibly lead to another job and working permit.
5. Approach my cousins' husbands' best friends' wife who owns and operates www.circabrides.com/ and ask her to employ me. Ideally this would be after I complete my current wedding dress, as it would be a great addition to my portfolio. She's based in London, again, I can live with my aunt and commute. Not particularly fun admittedly, but LONDON. BRIDAL WORK. IN LONDON. IN ENGLAND. WHICH ISN'T NEW ZEALAND. Guh.
6. Become intimately acquainted with every crappy science fiction telly show known to man. Wither and die from the nerdy boredom of it all.
So I've basically been really bored lately. My two commissions are going slowly due to a number of set backs (vanishing lace, machine malfunctions, etc) and I've just been really frustrated. I'm DEFINITELY GOING TO CALL UP ABOUT A JOB TOMORROW. They aren't looking (although their website says they're "always looking for new people" which is encouraging?) but it looks like a pretty cool place to work. I emailed my CV and cover letter and such about a week and a half ago and haven't heard anything back. I would've called earlier but then you start second guessing yourself - wouldn't it be better to call on a monday, etc.
Blarg. I'm considering a number of options. I need to get my head around them, work out the details, income possibilities, and all such good things. I like to have a plan before I go into things. I didn't have a plan going into South Seas/Quitting it, and look how well that turned out. I mean, I like sitting around at home watching crappy sci-fi shows and sewing, but I have practically no interaction with REAL people, especially cause all my business is through the web.
Sometimes it feels like my entire life is in the computer. Which is particularly sad when you consider my computer is an old family computer we traded a car for second hand back in 2002 which I inherited. It runs XP home, and freezes when I open an internet browser. DFLKJS. On the plus side I recently got upgraded to a thirty gig broadband plan, so MOAR DOWNLOADING FOR MEEEEE.
So, what I'm thinking of (in order of preference, though I'm not cemented in these opinions:
1. Get a job working in a bridal store or costume studio. Preferable. I'd get to work in the industry I want, get paid a decent (hopefully full time) wage, which would allow me to move into a nice one bedroom in town after a little while. Or at least rent out a studio space to do my stitching work in, as well as save save save.
2. Get a crappy retail job. I say crappy because apparently running your own business making clothes doesn't qualify you to work the cash register at a clothing store. LSDkFJ. I wish I'd worked more through highschool. People are more likely to hire inexperienced children than two year graduates with no "real skills". Said retail job would supplement the growth of my freelance and pay for materials and the like. Doesn't further my chances of a studio space or moving out of the 'burbs.
3. Tied to option 2. Get said crappy retail job, save for Uni, go to uni. Be a uni student. Study fashion design, major in costume design come third year. Get horribly into debt. I will, however, be taken more seriously in job applications as well as potentially getting a good paying job.
4. Apply for (and hypothetically get) the BBC design trainee scheme. I mean, I can live and work legally in the UK for two years, and I have an aunt who would be happy to let me live with her while I was there. FANTASTIC experience which could possibly lead to another job and working permit.
5. Approach my cousins' husbands' best friends' wife who owns and operates www.circabrides.com/ and ask her to employ me. Ideally this would be after I complete my current wedding dress, as it would be a great addition to my portfolio. She's based in London, again, I can live with my aunt and commute. Not particularly fun admittedly, but LONDON. BRIDAL WORK. IN LONDON. IN ENGLAND. WHICH ISN'T NEW ZEALAND. Guh.
6. Become intimately acquainted with every crappy science fiction telly show known to man. Wither and die from the nerdy boredom of it all.