In the beginning of starting your fashion line, all you want to do is design. That's why you got into fashion right? You have great ideas in mind and some how mysterious night elves will magically make these garments/accessories into real products while you sleep. Exactly like what happened in the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale "The Elves and the Shoemaker." Fairy tales are true, right? Uh huh, so when the heck are those elves getting here?!! (Truthfully, I do have a secret hope that one day I will wake up, and the elves will have done my work for me. Hmmm, one day... HaHa...really)
Well, so far work waits for me to complete it. Luckily I love my work!
Now, back to the point...
In the beginning, the job requires you to sure as heck wear many, many hats. (I even keep the Mad Hatter on speed dial. hee hee) Unless you have a huge bundle of cash to start you off, you must act at times, not only as, the designer/creative director, but as seamstress, accountant, secretary, assistant, buyer, merchandiser, photographer, manufacturer, marketing specialist, advertising specialist, graphic designer, website developer, janitor, delivery boy, and well, blogger.
I'd like to say that slowly you get into the swing of things, and it becomes easier... but that would be a LIE!!! As your line or company becomes more successful, new opportunities (aka difficulties) arise and grow on a larger scale. With the involvement of larger amounts of cash flow, the hiccups turn into hic-barrels, hic-silos, even hic-semi-trucks, and sometimes, hic-BOOMS! The number of employees increases, and guess where they turn when problems develop into ones to big for them to handle. That's right, they turn to you! See, no longer hiccups that you are dealing with, but a full size hic-semi racing directly towards you at 120 mphs!!
Now for the good news...
If you really love what you do, then you will enjoy solving the majority of those hic-silos (ha ha ha, a hick-silo). So it's all good...yes, I am aware that was corny.
The best news, however, I'm still in the hiccup stage of development. Yay!!
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
Quote by Horace
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