Had my first class on Fashion Business yesterday. J was very interesting. Listening to her, it was pretty obvious she knew what she was saying. She's been in the buying business (England based) for years before coming over to Australia.
Most of the day was taken up by our introduction. J wanted to get to know about the students so I guess she didn't mind letting us talk about ourselves. It became apparent that most of the students wanted to become buyers if not business owners. And the reasons for the first one was that they either have done a lot of traveling and wanted to bring what they saw overseas to Australia and that they saw it as something glamorous and exciting. Heck! Traveling while you get paid, why not? Then again, after listening to Julie, I'm not sure how many would stick with it. Yep, you travel but you travel a lot and if you have a family, it would be difficult. But since most of them are young and probably not committed, that wouldn't really bother them.
The reason for the second is pretty obvious as well. Who wouldn't want to own their own business? Not answering to anyone is great! Sure, you'll have to navigate the tricky areas of labour laws and taxation but other than that, you're the boss.
At least those are my assumptions. Whether they are true or not, I'm not really concerned. I just hope it's a class where everyone will work hard regardless of their ages. Yeah, I'm the oldest in the class. Sigh.
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Had a chat with school admin this afternoon and my request to defer has been approved. Yey!
