Another Retail Christmas.
Three little words, so much anxiety.
It instils me with so much fear, whilst providing me with so much inspiration.
What the riddle is he talking about, I hear you ask?
Another Retail Christmas…I cannot do it, and that is the point of this blog…I need to get out of retail and gain employment that relates to my degrees (or as I currently call them, my wasted $25000 HECS debt), before having to work in retail through Christmas.
Anyway…let me take you back. Picture it, Brisbane, October 2010. A young man, me, and his friend, the extremely talented Liz, shared a counter at a major department store (it is my store, and there is no other store) and got to talking about her impending graduation and my desire to escape the torture we called retail.
I’d like to take this point to say, I love my job…amazing people, amazing company, but when you spent four years to get two degrees, working in retail can only be described as hell…but I’ve digressed.
So, we were talking about the idea of starting blogs to try and get ourselves some attention from professionals, and in turn, begin our careers. At that point Liz looked at me, and what some would say was straight out of Wicked, said, “Just think of what we could do…together…” and like Elphaba and Galinda before us, it was at that point that we realised we needed to start a blog...together.
As the weeks rolled by, and Liz graduated we discussed ideas and worked towards launching a blog, but work kept getting busier and busier, and the task harder and harder. We had reached Christmas in retail and we had no time for extra-curricular activities. Hell, less festive people than us would struggle to fit festive fun into a retail job at Christmas…if you knew either of us, you would realize that Christmas is the most important time of the year to us, however Christmas working in retail runs the risk of turning you into a mean one, (like) Mr. Grinch and at that point we decided emphatically, that we could never do another retail Christmas.
Fast forward to February and Liz, being supremely talented, had secured a job (at the best magazine in Australia, in my opinion…and well, it’s won the award repeatedly), and the fear of doing another retail Christmas was gone for her, so now, I’ve come to the point where I have to do this blog alone* and risk having to do another retail, you guessed it, Christmas.
So, I guess it has come to the point where I explain what the blog is about, otherwise, how am I meant to entice you to follow / spread word of my wit, charm, insecurities and dislike of retail? This blog will cover everything from life, love, food, the things I’ve learnt from serving the public, things I’ve heard, people I’ve seen, rants, raves and most importantly, my journey to get a job (I’ll explain more about this later) and avoid having to do another retail Christmas.
So without further adieu, welcome…
* By alone, I mean editorially. I would like to take this moment to thank my insanely awesome friend Kim Hamilton, who has come on board as the Graphic Designer of my blog…and future media empire^.
^ Media Empire is extreme use of hyperbole
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