Welcome September!

Fall is in the air! This is my favorite season. I love the smells, the leaves, the temperatures, the colors! I love it all. That's why I want a fall wedding one day. I think it would be gorgeous!

So my job hunt continues. I haven't heard anything from Moore and Van Allen. Not that I really expected too and I'm not too upset about it either. Don't get me wrong I wanted the job, but so did a lot of other people who are probably more qualified than me. However, I was told by a family friend after explaining my interview, that I obviously had a good interview. Doesn't mean I will get the job, but for a first interview it was great. I guess they don't keep you for two hours and introduce you to lawyers for nothing, huh?

Today I found two perfect jobs. I have been so upset because I don't have a job or any food prospects that I have forgotten what I really wanted to do or convinced myself that I couldn't do it because I wasn't getting hired. We are in hard times and all it took was finding a couple jobs that would be great, for now. They are by no means what I want to do forever, but they are a great step in the right direction.

I knew when I graduated that I wanted to be a buyer and having corporate Belk and Cato right here in Charlotte, I thought it was totally doable. But when you are in a recession you have to put your priorities in order and finding a perfect job was not going to happen. Until today! No it isn't a buyer job or an assistant buyer, it is a Merchandising Assistant. It is under both the buyers, but it is working with them and experience that would point me in the right direction of moving up to those positions eventually. To top if off I am exactly what they are looking for! Bachelors degree preferred and at least one year of retail experience. I have that alright! That would be my first choice, but the other job is a corporate Administrative Assistant for the Fine Jewelry department. Not what I want to do forever, but exactly the type of jobs I need to get me off the ground.

I guess sometimes it just takes going back to your roots and really discovering what it is you really want. I have always been one that never knew. I picked a Business Administration because it was a major that I could do anything with and Marketing because it was the least boring. I have no doubts that I am good at what they trained me to do in school, but I never knew where I was going with it. It took a retail management class in my senior year to show me where I really belonged. I know retail like the back of my hand. I have studied people and consumer behavior and not only liked it, but I was good at it. Not to mention that a Buyer position is in it's simplest form, shopping! (And a little math in there too) We all know I'm good at that.

So after wandering from my original career path I set out on when I graduated, I have come back full circle. I don't want to get my hopes up since this is such a horrible job market, but at least I know where I want to go again. I have goals and although I might not find them in a first job, I know where I'm going or at least where I am setting out to go. Plans can always change, but my regimented mind can rest assured that for now it knows what it wants.

"I like my money right where I can see it--hanging in my closet." -Sex and the City