Week Fourteen

This entry is slightly more of a day entry then a week as I have got to send off my work so that it is printed in time. I am having my journal entries put into a book. I have been adding in the pages for a while now, it takes quite a long time to get it looking good but I am really pleased with it. It is sort of a project diary. Well, anyway, so far this very short week, as today is only Tuesday, I have finished another file. One of the files is to look at the next five years and plan where it is we would like to be at the end of it. Next year I will be in Nottingham. Well I think I will be! But I am pretty much set now on going there. I have been offered a place on their one-year top up course, which is called International Fashion Business. It looks a really interesting course. I like that at the end of it, past students have got all different jobs out of it. Some have become stylists, some work as retail managers, some are working in buying and merchandising roles and some have gone on to do postgraduate study. The plan we have written isn’t set in stone but it has got me thinking about where it is I would like to be. Five years seems such a long time, but I have been at Newcastle College now for four years and it has gone so fast. For the five-year plan I looked at doing an MA course at Nottingham after I have graduated with my full degree. If you stay on at Nottingham to do an MA, you can apply for some money to help with the costs. Without this I am not sure I could afford to do it unless I did it part time over two years and worked as well. After this I would like to go on and work for a company. This would be at a junior level. At the minute I am not sure what this would be doing. There are so many jobs that sound interesting, but until I have done the course, and learnt new things I am not sure where it is I want to be. Whatever it is I want to work my way up and become successful. The fashion industry is always changing, and so many of the jobs you need to work you way up, start from the bottom gaining experience to move forward. I think if you ever got board there would be room to switch and change. There is just over a week left now until the hand in day. I need to complete my practical work, which is to make some more dresses. I need to have another tutorial with a lecturer to see what is going with my garments at the exhibition else I am not sure how to complete my work. I have got a lot of different things I could include in the show so I want to make sure I choose the right things. I like my photographs of my samples, but I am not sure whether they go with the white paper of the dresses. I also need to sort out what rail it is I am having in the exhibition and find some good quality hangers. Hopefully it will be done on time!