In particular I would like to talk about my journey from school to the present.
When I left school I had no idea what I wanted for me and my life I saw a careers advisor and I found it super unhelpful. the advisor basically pushed me into going to a sixth form college with out asking me anything or letting me know about other pathways. the meeting was about 3 minutes long and I felt like I had signed the next few years without a clear vision in mind for the future.
At college I took, 3D design, photography, media and business studies. Really I only wanted to do graphics and fine art but as it was a sixth form college I was told I had to take 4 courses. After a while this completely overwhelmed me and I soon found myself concentrating on the social side of college rather than the academic.
When I left school I had no idea what I wanted for me and my life I saw a careers advisor and I found it super unhelpful. the advisor basically pushed me into going to a sixth form college with out asking me anything or letting me know about other pathways. the meeting was about 3 minutes long and I felt like I had signed the next few years without a clear vision in mind for the future.
At college I took, 3D design, photography, media and business studies. Really I only wanted to do graphics and fine art but as it was a sixth form college I was told I had to take 4 courses. After a while this completely overwhelmed me and I soon found myself concentrating on the social side of college rather than the academic.
After two years of college and failing my courses due to none attendance and lack of, y'know actually handing in the work, my college decided they'd rather not have me back.
So back to talking about work. During college I had a job working at a paint your own crockery shop and later on at Debenhams. These were only part time jobs. After college I had been unemployed for about 6 months, when finally I got a job working for lush as a Christmas temp.
After Christmas I got kept on and spent the next 5 years there.
I loved my time at lush and made my way from a sales assistant to key holder. After a while I wanted more, I wanted to move up to a management role but unfortunately it wasn't an option in my store at the time. It was time to move on and I got a job as a counter manager at a make up concession. I'd wanted to do it for ages I thought it would my dream job. It was awful the company didn't care about me and I didn't feel I had any support from my area manager. The company was transitioning from being independent to being owned by an umbrella company. There was a lot of paper work involved and I had to hard sell everyday. It was harder than I ever thought. I just wanted to put make up on people. I left in August of 2013 and never looked back.
After a couple of temp jobs I ended up at greggs. Not ideal. Actually, not a bad company to work for if you don't mind early starts, but not what I wanted to do.
After a year and a half I'm going back to lush and I'm so happy. This past year has been a massive learning curve for me. I've learnt how other businesses work, about different customer bases and mostly I've learnt how I can adapt and how've I grown to accept different situations everyday.
At some point I would love to go back to college and pursue what I love doing. There are so many amazing beauty and art courses where I live.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that, there are other pathways in life and don't let the bastards grind you down. Enjoy yourself and do your best. Even if it hasn't gone exactly the way you thought.
If you liked this please pop it on your reading list. I normally post on Thursday evenings so look out for that!
Lucy.
At lush
As a beauty manager
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