Friday, March 9, 2007

Is Desperation in Fashion?

A Globe and Mail article last year said the problem recent university graduates have of finding gainful employment, can only be blamed on them; the Globe and Mail said that if we, the people who basically sold our souls to student loan creditors, would take more entry level jobs in corporations, we could work our way up. Did this national paper mean answering phones at our MNC of choice? No, they meant folding tshirts at the GAP. Buy your soul back, by living pay cheque to pay cheque, all the while promising your next lifes soul to Lucifer in exchange of getting the hell out of the mall.

As I feel trapped in this (btw, thats the LAST time I take the Globe's advice) I have found that there are more BA's, BSc's, BComm's located in your local mall then you might realize. And some of these people have opted to take this route. Have they even inched up the food chain in their stores corporation? No. But they are comfortable behind the mall lease line, they like the daily interaction with (no believe me, not customers), the other managers and assitant managers of the other stores who also lament about their "useless" degrees.

It makes me sad more than anything. I want nothing more than to work in the fashion industry and that desperation has led me to the mall. A place I would once shop and remind myself I would never work. Just on that fact, if I am not CEO of this leading womens retailer by the time this blog is published I'm suing the Globe.

So remember, the next time you decide to hunt to the bottom of the pile of neatly folded clothes, the person giving you the evil eye of retail death, has more to offer than starting a fitting room for you.