Thursday, January 13, 2011

Not Completely Sure

I love fashion, I love textiles, I love styling, I love magazines, still after my 4 or so years learning about Apparel and Textiles I'm still not certain exactly what I want a job in/"what I want to be when I grow up". The problem is that I could see myself doing many different things in the industry and enjoying many different jobs.

For one of my first assignments for my Illustration and Portfolio class we were to think about and answer these questions:
1. What kind of career in the apparel, textiles, or related industries do I want to have over the next 10 years?
2. What kind of job do I want to start that career? What kind of internship before that?
3. Where do I want to go after that first job? -- this could be within the same company or moving to another company, or within your own business.

Then make a list of 10 goals for ourselves.

So here goes, I would like a career in textiles, styling, or visual merchandising. Those are the areas of my major that interest me the most.
I would love to start my career at a store where I could learn a lot about styling, visual merchandising, and buying or working in styling or textiles. I would like to get an internship that involves textiles or visual merchandising.
I would love to get a higher position at the store or specializing in a specific field I'm interested in like doing styling for a magazine or being the visual merchandiser for a store.

10 Goals:
1. Expand my portfolio.
2. Get an internship in Textiles, Visual Merchandising, or Styling.
3. Get a job in a similar field to those at a place that shares my aesthetic
4. Eventually work at or at least work with a magazine doing styling, etc.
5. Open my own store one day that sells clothing, accessories, and home goods.
6. Just keep doing crafts, sewing, dyeing, making clothing, & printing.
7. Live in a city that is metropolitan enough but not too large.
8. Work in Textile Design.
9. Continue learning about Fashion and Patterning techniques, Textile Design, and Styling.
10. Delve into Interior Design a little bit.

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