The year ahead.
I am at this moment lying on my sofa eating chocolate for breakfast. Not an entirely healthy start to the day but it is a weekend of celebration. So I am allowed.
On Friday I had two interviews for 6 month work placements as a pattern cutter. One was a very positive experience, I discovered that my old pattern cutting teacher works there, which was a very exciting prospect as I know I will learn a lot. The other was with a brand that I absolutely love. But the spark just wasn’t there. If the placement had been shorter or it had been part time, then my decision would have been very different, but I couldn’t face working there for 6 whole months. I was quite upset about this, as obviously I’d rather got my hopes up about them. But at the same time it was good. Because it made my decision for me.
This is why I am eating chocolate for breakfast. I’ve been celebrating all weekend. Friday night was the leaving party for the designer I’ve been working for, Julia Clancey, as she’s moving to LA. We went from there to another bar, and there were a lot of toasts to the fact I have my year sorted. Yesterday I went to meet my father for a celebratory glass of champagne, but we had both rather over indulged the night before so we had a celebratory salad instead. And I bought a guitar. As you do. Sadly today I need to do lots of work, but I will alternate this with guitar playing, and perhaps treat myself to something good for dinner!
So my entire placement year is planned. I will be spending 6 months at Betty Jackson working as a pattern cutter, and then 6 months at Mulberry as a technical assistant. Pretty damn exciting.
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hi, i just came across your site as i was searching for some summer outfits on google.
congratulations on getting the jobs you wanted. that’s really exciting. i’m still a high school, or college (so they call it in england), student, undecided of what i want to do next year at university. so living with such confusion, it’s really inspiring to see someone with a true passion and to see it actually happening.
Hey,
Thanks for such a positive comment. I understand that confusion well and its a stressful time.
At some point you’ll realise what you want to do. The most important thing is when you go to uni you do something you enjoy, so that you work hard and get good grades. It doesn’t really matter too much if you come out of uni and realise you want to do something different. Employers just want to know that you are a hard worker and can apply yourself.
Crikey, listen to me! Quite the careers counselor!
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Hiya
Im a student at LCF too, wats ur current project i need some inspiration!!!!
Hi Naomi,
My current project isn’t very exciting. Its for an accessories brand called MCM, and as the brand doesn’t inspire me, I’m just playing with Kitsch ideas, and doing something quite jokey.
Sorry I can’t be very helpful.
Hope your project goes well!
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do you kie the hills??
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