Ok ok ok so it’s been a while since I’ve blogged!!! I’ve been busy with LIFE and finishing Uni, graduation, looking for a job (although I currently work part time) I also have had something like an epiphany of what I want to do with my life and how I would like to utilise my education. Truth is I had had a problem with choosing a career that interested me AND earned me big bucks! No thanks to my school pushing me to decide on a long term career option when I was 14 and had pick my GCSES and AGAIN, when I was 16, they rammed University and prospects down your throat without giving you one to one tailored career advice! Of course with my school, as with many schools these days it was all about league tables and how many of their 6th form students they could get into university- again some kind of table to conquer and funding to be acquired as a result.
Honestly when I was in secondary school they pressured students to make decisions about their career; they would have you believe higher education is the only viable route. When I picked my subjects for my A levels I thought I had picked a pretty good batch. I had decided through pressure from school and family to pursue a career that would earn me big bucks! After watching films such as "Usual Suspects" Bone collector" and "Se7en" of course the path was clear, BE A PSYCHOLOGIST (because it’s always THAT interesting! Right? DUMB). Well I conducted all the necessary career paths research and stuck with it, it sounded great. So for my A Levels I picked Psychology, Media, Sociology and English Language (AS I JUST LOVE ENGLISH. If I was aware enough at the time, I would have known this was a telling sign of what I should really be pursuing!). Anyway what followed after 2 years was D in Psychology (It was a lot different to what I thought it was, in fact downright EVIL is the word) D in Media Studies (A subject which I thoroughly enjoyed even with the laziest teacher know to homo-sapiens) C in Sociology (When it came down to it, I was too lazy to revise! and could have done way better!) and English Language I had dropped at the end of my first year of study (DOH!). Now, I had applied to university STILL, with a keen passion to pursue Psychology and I believed with practice I would become better versed with the grueling and downright confusing statistical methods and I become competent in understanding and regurgitating every Psychology theory under the sun! Well of course that wasn’t the case. I was more or less dragged kicking and screaming through my 3 years of Uni by my two friends Mandeep, who I had known from school and a new friend Tammy who just refused to let me fail!! Even through my dissertation and re-sit modules at the end of the 3 year sentence, Tammy was encouraging me and constantly pushing me, even when I had given up. Luckily for me I picked a combined honours course and picked Sociology (one of the two Ology's I was better at) as the second subject. To be honest if it wasn’t for Tammy, Mandeep and Sociology I would not have graduated at all! I am now highly experienced in the evil that is statistics and research method sand SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), I completely hate Psychology have NO interest in pursuing it, and well what can you do with an Undergraduate Psychology degree?! Well I didn’t work my ass off for 3 years, give up twice, stress myself out and pull all nighters until 1.30pm the following afternoon to work as a prison warden or social worker (no disrespect to either profession) but that’s not where the big bucks are right?? So anyway the first 18 months of my time at Uni I was working for a shitty sports retailer, sounds a lot like DortsSpirect.com. THE worst company IN THE WORLD to work for, too long to go into now! That’s for another post. But by the grace of whomever I was offered a job to work for Oasis in my second year of Uni. This company and the people I work with know how to treat their staff! They know how to train you to be the best Sales Advisor you can be and after my second year with them I decided I wanted pursue a career in merchandising and ultimately become a buyer (really tapping into my natural creative flair I have for arts, writing and literature. Also, before I picked my GCSE options (i.e. Art) I wanted to be a fashion designer! Well the GCSE Art syllabus know how to kill that dream don’t they! Anyyyway, merchandising- my manager agreed to give me some training and some hands on experience in merchandising. Turns out all you need to apply for an entry level job in fashion merchandising is an:
Analytical/numerical/science related degree ☑and
Experience in Fashion retail ☑
For a time in my 3rd year of university when I literally had ceased all academic work efforts and spent all my time partying, working and on Facebook (true story!) I suddenly decided I wanted to write, journalism, blogs, short stories, whatever, that’s how this blog came about. People tell me regularly I should write and blog because it is something I am naturally versed in, however the commitment to this blog dwindled more or less after I reset the layout and changed the background image. Not to say I’m not passionate about writing, because I really am, I love it, but when I do become an experienced Merchandiser and then a Buyer earning the big bucks, tapping into what my natural creativity, I will seek the opportunities to write professionally about the job that I love. I feel like I finally have control over my future again, I feel passionate about my career and positive about my future! It turns out degrees don’t suck so badly after all! So ill keep you all posted on my progress! All fired up baby!!!
The saturdays- All fired up!
The saturdays- All fired up!
