Do you spend all your time in the mall? Are you always wasting away the time walking around the mall and fitting dresses, accessories, shoes, etc.? It’s your love for Lakeland shopping that might be steering you to another direction in your career. Yes, you can actually turn your love for malls into a profession. Be a professional shopper! These days, it’s not only the busy people and the super rich who hire personal shoppers. Everyone needs an advice or two when it comes to dressing themselves up or redesigning their houses.
Take a crash course in fashion or interior design
If you want to make a career out of something, you better be academically prepared for it, too. You don’t have to take a whole degree to become a stylist, but you can take a few classes or online crash course to get you acquainted with the theories and principles that govern this new career of yours. If you want to become a professional shopper and fashion designer, you will have to know a lot of things about textiles, the different fashion statements over the years, the trends, and the classics (LBD, anyone?).
Start dressing up your friends and family
You can practice on your friends and family. You don’t always have to fail the first time you handle a client. Ask a friend to “trust” you with her fashion choices and see how much that would help in her social and professional life. A friend will less than likely to berate you or rant at you when she did not like what you’ve done with her wardrobe, so if you’re going to make a mistake, might as well make it with a friend. She will likely forgive you if you buy her a cup of joe or a cupcake. That does not work with real clients, so practice your skills with your friends and family first.
Advertise yourself
Finally, when you are confident enough to handle real clients, it’s time to advertise yourself. But before advertising yourself, you have to promote your sample works first. That means creating Facebook and Instagram accounts that will showcase your talents in dressing up people or in the matter of designing home interiors, making a small space look bigger or turning minimalism into a classic and elegant theme.
Enjoy your new career
And as always, enjoy your new career. You’ve worked hard for it and you’ve transitioned from something else into this. Being a professional shopper is not something you thought about when you’re in college. This is something that you’ve grown passionate for through the years, so enjoy every second you get to do something you love.