AshesFromStars

At long last, after ten years of ohhing and ahhing about what I want to do with my life I’ve actually realised what I was born to do.

In those ten years I’ve tried my hand at a few jobs, a few college course and 8 Standard Grades which have little relevance to my vocational calling. The good news is that I’m already on the ladder to my chosen career; and nearly finished a course in it. Of course - retail management.

Yes, I know I’ve been training to be a manager for over a year with this course that I’m on through work but I only applied for it in the first place because I wanted to learn more about the job I was already (and still am) doing and didn’t for one second think that it would end up in becoming a store manager myself in the near future. It was also something else to stick on my CV when the time came to move on as I’d done in every single job I’ve had before now. I always grabbed something from the company I was working for to boost my qualifications, experience.. whatever.

But now there’s an actual chance that I could end up as a store manager. It’s a slim one, but it’s there all the same. So now I’m applying myself even more to prove I’m the obvious choice for the vacancy which will be coming up in the not too distant future. This situation is a far cry from the problems I was having a few weeks ago which nearly resulted in me handing my notice in!

Point of the story is I’ve spent the last 4 hours reading online versions of trade magazines (some of which I already read in the shop) and realising that retail makes me quite excited. And that it’s an area where I can continue to learn things each and every day. We have problems in the shop with making money due to a Tesco opening up down the street and the local high school being rebuilt miles away from the shop so they’ve (I need to get used to saying we since it’s my shop now) lost all the customers from there. So I’ve been racking my brains coming up with ideas and it’s amazing - I’m finally comfortable with what I’m doing and confident about my job and my skills.

Not bad for a decade of wondering ‘what will I be when I’m older?’ and it certainly beats what I wanted to be when I was at school - a receptionist!