“Right now, I’m an assistant to an interior designer. I’m very new at this, but I’m really getting to like it. She’s doing a lot of buildings out in Beverly Hills, and this is my first assisting job. Before this, I was working at CVS as a cashier. It’s very different, but I like it a lot. It’s great!
My boyfriend, he’s a designer, and his mom is too, so I just automatically got the job. But I mean, she knows I’m very organized, and she knows I would do a good job. So, it’s been working out. I just wanted to help out the business.
We go to design shows, and we gather resources. We contact sales reps about getting some samples, getting catalogs, so that we can set up our library. Set up meetings with those sales reps, so that they can give you a presentation, learn more about their products. So when you get to present to your client, you have a good amount of new ideas, ’cause they want to look at something that’s really cool-looking and brand new. You don’t want to do something that was cool, like, ten years ago. We have to be out and constantly searching for them, and gather pricing, and help her with just looking online and try to find some really cool ideas for whatever project. Some are medical buildings, so you’re limited a little, but it’s been fun. It’s a good challenge.
[The designer]’s been doing a lot of medical buildings in Beverly Hills. But she does some apartments. Her assistant has been doing some of the remodeling. She’s done a lot. She did the Roosevelt in downtown LA: the whole interior, exterior, everything. She’s done design work in Vegas as well, like the Hilton. She’s been doing it for many, many years.
She was trying to see if she could do the design out there [in Texas], but they’re kind of stuck in what they want. And they’re not willing to go like, nice, like crazy. They have that style, and they keep it. Very conservative. The money’s there, but they just don’t want – it’s not her style. So it wasn’t going to work. They just decided this is the place where it’s happening; people were willing to spend money to make things look really nice and want to update.
That’s all I’m really working on now. I would hope to go back to school soon. I mean, just right now, it’s kind of hectic. I would have to do online classes. I was going to PCC, and I left, and I was working a different job. So it was kind of difficult to be full-time or even like, take more than two classes. So I’m just taking it slow. I really need to go back.
On Sundays, I join [my boyfriend] and play soccer. I’m a co-organizer of a MeetUp group, where we play here at the sandpit. On Sundays, we play volleyball. I haven’t joined the gym, so this is kind of my workout. It’s fun. We do that, and we get dinner afterwards. And then during the week, we work Monday-Friday. I’ve been on [MeetUp] for, I think, a year. That was my first MeetUp group. We just saw them playing, we joined them. And then, they said they were in a group, so we joined that. That’s how he’s found all these other groups to play soccer with. It’s been good. We moved to Texas for a little bit, and we couldn’t really find anything there. It was just boring. So, yeah, you just come back, and you realize, there’s just so many MeetUp groups that start up. It’s great to see that people are so passionate about yoga, or you know, everything that they do – hiking. Just being outdoors. It’s great that there are so many people that are willing to do that.”
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