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My first was at burger king. I made $4.25 an hour to stand in a grease pit. Then I worked my way up to manager with 11 hour shifts. Fast food is the hardest job I have had. There is so much stress and the work really sucks as much as the pay.
THen I worked awhile for an insurance company as a temp. I alphabetized insurance files all day. It was boring and the pay was not much to speak of, but it was easy.
Then back to Burger King Manager. I needed more money and bit the bullet to go back. Then one day I had enough so I quit I was lucky enough to soon after find a position at a small lighting store. I liked this job even though the pay was not much. It was my first Interior Design related job.
Then I got pregnant and quit working until my son was 6 (minus the 3 month internship I did for my degree at a furniture dealership during the last trimester of my daughter).
Finallly after I was tired of being a housewife and I found a position at the place I did my internship. I thought they were going to keep me there for awhile, but unfortunately for me they had to let me go due to the economy.
Now I am here Holmes & Brakel Business Interiors. By far the best I have had yet. I get paid to talk to you guys in between specifying furniture and making quotes. It gets a bit stressful at times here, but at least I am finally getting a foothold on my career.
My mother was a secratary at a dentist for a bit. Then she schemed up an idea to play her music for the elderly in rest homes. She made good money doing it, and the old folks LOVED it. She was a musician more than anything.
Daddy worked deisel mechanics. Grease monkey. He hated it. I did not want a job like his that would bring me home full of irritation.
I wanted to be a musician, an artist or a writer. In college I picked Interior Design. It was the closest to art, but I could get paid more and have more opportunity.
I hope to one day be in a design firm. I would like to be a great designer and be able to get some projects like I dreamed of in class. I want my license, which is harder to get than going through college. I must work directly under a Licensed for 4 years to even qualify for the test. The test according to my partner in crime here who took it last week is BRUTAL. I really hope she passes so that I can begin to get some of my 4 years in. I really want to make great spaces for people to enjoy.
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