Ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to write. Whether that be penning my own novel or casting my editorial eyes over the latest fashion magazine? It’s something that I’ve always been passionate about, you’d catch me making my own magazine’s as a little girl, using my set of Crayola’s and my latest notepad to create my imaginary editorial. I’d play Agony Aunt for the letters page, create my own short story, I’d even create my own mood board of things you should be buying. This was at a ripe age of six or seven. There wasn’t a week that went by that I didn’t pick up my issue of Girl Talk for inspiration (you know the one I mean!) When Workwear Express got in touch with me and asked ”what did I want to be when I grow up?” as part of the #WEChildhoodDream campaign, I knew the answer was easy because my love for the topic has always been apparent through my life.
I’d love to write my own book, but you see I’m no philanthropic writer that uses big, incredulous words to sound like I know what I’m talking about, I write words that I hope people can connect with and not get lost anyone after the first sentence and be scratching their heads because it made no sense, I call it the ”Kevin McCloud” theory (nb. you know the guy of Grand Designs who goes on a torrent of strange reflection using big word after big word to describe something and suddenly the whole thing looses all sense of meaning. Yeah, that.)
I have this reoccurring thing that I start writing my own novels when on holiday, I’ll be sat on my sun lounger, cocktail in hand, watching the Grecian sun slowly set and I’ll keep this up for the full seven days often gloating to my husband how well it’s going and how I’m connecting with the characters and how much they all mean to me after such a short space of time. But as soon as I got home the notebook filled with all my words and little imaginary people I had created would go to the back of a cupboard and then the same thing would continue in to the next summer and then the next. I’d never finish one of them.
I decided that writing a book is not for me, I’m not cut out for it as my mind wanders & I need something fast paced. I think that’s why I have always been drawn to magazines, they’re short, snappy and to the point. That doesn’t mean I don’t like reading books but I’m enthralled by colour blazoned pages of fashion and style that find me reading a magazine quite easily, cover to cover, in fifteen minutes and feeling suitably cultured from it.
My career didn’t quite take the path I thought it would, despite studying English right through to A-Level I eventually pursued another passion of mine that I’d also been studying, Travel & Tourism. I enrolled on an apprenticeship scheme which saw me train to become a Travel Agent. I loved my job & enjoyed sending people on their own trip of a lifetime, and it’s through this career that I saw myself on many holidays (writing said novels) However, I fell out of love with my career choice after seven years when the company I was working for started to make drastic cuts, travel isn’t a well paid sector and I decided it was time to make a change and jump in to the world of Experiential Marketing in 2014.
I guess because I didn’t go down the route of my desired job I’ve always felt like I was in a little rut, had I made the wrong decision not going to uni & persuing a fashion writing degree? Questions that plague my mind continuously from time to time but in truth, I can’t let it consume me as what’s done is done. I guess for me that natural extension of my passion for writing came with this blog. It became of my desire to create something with the written word and incorporate photography too. My two hobbies combined. And that is what it is, a hobby, but I feel so much excitement for the direction my blog is heading in that one day I hope that it doesn’t just have to be a hobby or sideline project. We have seen so many bloggers make a career for themselves out of it and that excites me. They don’t have fancy degree’s and that keeps me hopeful.
Life doesn’t always take a road that you thought possible or the way you had expected or hoped but I’m getting to write about some of the things I have learnt in past careers, such as my love for travel which is a frequent topic on this blog too AND I get to do it whilst wearing pyjamas! Whilst I might not be on the particular career path I had wished for I am doing a darned good job of keeping it in grasp (or at least I hope I am!) and I will continue to work harder and harder on my blog to make sure that one day my goal is achieved.
Is your current career your dream job? Are you working hard to make it or have you simply changed paths and doing something completely different? I’d love to hear from you and read about your experiences too, so please leave me a comment below. I might not be the fancy magazine editor (yet) so at the moment, blogging will do…
Bee xxx
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