Things seem like theyre changing so quickly.

One minute it seems like my life is exactly the way i want it, and the next minute it does a complete turn around. It all started with this stupid career project we had to do for fashion. For this project we had to research what our entry level pay for a specific job in the fashion industry was. I picked assistant fashion editor because im pretty sure that one day i want to be a fashion editor or editor-in-chief of a magazine. I found out how little money i would be making and put together a monthly budget for living in San Francisco. As you can guess, the outcome wasnt that great.

After doing that project i’ve come to realize some things. No matter how comfortable and perfect my life seems right now, it won’t be for long. After i graduate i have to start paying off my student loans and move to a big city in hopes to get a job.

So… here’s what’s going to happen. I’m going to transfer schools. Yes, Johnson & Wales is a respectable school and has a great post-graduation employment rate, BUT it is known mostly as a cooking school. You might say that the business students get good jobs too, but what about the fashion students? JWU is not known for its fashion program at all. In fact, the campus i go to doesnt even have its fashion program completely set up yet. The school that i’m hopefully transferring to is VCU, where the program seems to be much more thorough and the alumni is more impressive. I think i’m going to keep my major as fashion merchandising but make my minor in writing.

So anyways… hopefully that is whats going to happen. Things right now are far from perfect though. It’s a hard decision to make. I have lots of cool friends here and i really like Charlotte, even though it gets awfully boring sometimes. People are actually getting mad at me for transferring. It’s really weird. I mean yeah i would really like to stay here but this is my life we’re talking about and the sooner i’ve got it on track, the better. I was planning on being here next year, but i just feel like i’m wasting so much time i could be using to learn valuable skills that i’ll need in the future.

This was a pretty long blog post. Thanks if you read it. It probably bored you to tears haha. If you didnt thats fine too. Any advice anyone?