Looking for a placement in one of the most competitive industries in the world, how hard can that be? It was one of the most draining, demotivating and stressful things I have ever done!
I spent weeks sending out emails, trying to contact anyone in any one based in a fashion company, no one got back to me. I then thought back to a presentation we had by a visitor. She came to talk to the class about producing portfolios of the creative industry and she mentioned a website which was great for finding internships and placements...Fashion Workie, that was the name! So turned my laptop on, trying to get online as quick as possible and I went onto FashionWorkie.com. There it was lists of Placement offers, I was suddenly uplifted!
Brilliant!! I thought. I then processed to send my C.V to any ad that involved Pattern Cutting, Design, even to studio assistants, which as much as I knew meant spending every hour of every day making tea, but I didn't care, anything was better then nothing.
I must have logged on to the website at least twice a day, I didn't want to miss anything! After about another month i felt deflated again, telling my parents that I was never going to get anything and panicked about what I was going to do. Then out of no where, I had a bunch of replies in the space of two days, offering me to go to interviews, I quickly replied to all on my Blackberry, and had to chance most of my shifts at work in order make them all.
It must be my fifth interview, I'm running past Harrods trying to find the correct street, after I get so desperate that I have to ask for directions I finally get to my destination. I carefully walk down a cobbled road trying not to slip in my shoes and catch my breath. I ring the bell and the interview begins.
It didn't last long, 10-15 minutes, well that's what it felt to me, I was certain I didn't get it. I even rang my dad telling him not to get his hopes up for me. 'He said he would contact me in a couple of days' I told my dad.
Five days late, the interview is long behind me, still looking on Fashion Workie I get a call from an unknown number,. Minutes later I'm running down the stairs screaming to my dad, 'Ive got it, I've got it!'
