My DREAM Job

"God puts dreams on your heart for a reason."

I heard this quote on a podcast recently and it's really been stuck in my mind. I've been dreaming up a lot about what I want my life to look like, more specifically what I want my career to look like. I'm majoring in advertising and public relations, and it is highly highly encouraged to get internships pretty early in your college career. It is such a creative business that really the only way you get good at it is to practice your skills every day, thus an internship is quite helpful to sharpen your skills and get your foot in the door. So, needless to say, I've been looking and applying for internships and it's honestly so scary. What if I hype myself up too much in my cover letter and then I let them down? What if they ask me to do something that I don't know how to do? What if I royally fail with one of their clients? All these doubts fill my head, but I just try to remind myself that that's the whole reason why you get an internship - to learn and grow and gain experience. Plus, they're hiring me as an intern for goodness sakes they're not expecting me to be the Michael Jordan of all things advertising.

So, what is my dream job you may be asking. Well there is no one title, so let me explain. I just love so many things - social media, clothes, interior design, photography, strategizing, planning, writing, connecting with people - so how in the world can I do all of those things? Well, in my dream world, I get to own my own clothing boutique. A cute little shop in downtown of a smaller city where little girls and their moms stop in for a mommy-daughter date on Saturday afternoon. A cute little shop where a group of best friends walk in, coffee and frappes in hand, to help their friend pick out an outfit for her date with that cute boy from math class. A cute little shop where my kids grow up saying "I want to work at mommy's store." Sounds kind of simple, but in owning my own boutique I:

- Get to play with clothes and jewelry and anything else I decide to sell all day

- Get to decorate my cute little store (You best believe that my Christmas decorations will sleigh (hahahaha see what I did there??? sleigh = slay hahaha))

- Get to play with cameras and photography by taking pictures of the clothes for social media and the online website

- Get to have the cutest Instagram account for my boutique that's so aesthetically pleasing

- Get to connect with the customers

- Get to be my own boss (heck yeah)

So basically I get to incorporate so many things that I love in one job. Now, I don't want to do this alone. Getting to grow my own little work family is on the agenda too. I think that anything creative is so much more fun to do when you're working with other people. Getting to bounce ideas off each other, or if you're in a creative rut and need some help, just having other people to share an experience with in general is so fun to me. Plus, I'm going to need someone to deal with all the numbers and money because this girl is on the strugs bus when it comes to that lol. The crazy thing about this is that it's just so real to me. Like as I'm typing this, I can truly picture what it will look like and how fun it will be. Obviously nothing is all sunshine and rainbows, and owning my own business will be full of challenges and hardship, but I just get so dang excited when I think about it. And that's why hearing "God puts dreams on your heart for a reason" means so much to me right now.

Back to the internships, all of the internships that I'm finding have nothing to do with fashion. I know that any job/internship that I'll have will teach me so many lessons - whether it's from good experiences or bad ones - but I can't help but be excited for the day that I finally get to have this dream of mine. And who knows, maybe in a few years my dream job will change. I mean I wanted to be a teacher for so long (I used to make my friends play school after we got out of school for the day lol). Then it was a child oncologist (realized that I hate science and I cry too much for that job). Next, 12 year old Julia wanted to be a YouTube star (I actually made a channel called Beautydoll09 and never posted anything on it...I'm crying why am I admitting this right now). My last dream was to work for a beauty/fashion company as their social media guru or event planner (even though I have no event planning schooling or experience, it just sounded fun lol). And now we're here. And even though my plans and aspirations will change, I find comfort in words like these.

So this one is for the dreamers.

I hope we all become the "do-ers."

Love,

Just Julia