STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

small fry · Chanel

RE: Where do you work?

Karina · Chanel

sophie wrote:

I start my new job tomorrow as a Merchandise Assistant for major off-price retail company. My ultimate goal is to be a buyer.

Where do you work?

Seashells · Dooney & Bourke

I am now "Copy Editor" for a small Advertising Agency in New York State. So I am writing press releases, speeches, and such.

I am excited because soon I will be doing web design. I am going to be a jack of all trades. I guess that's what happens when you have a Marketing Degree!

gingembre1 · Kate Spade

blubirde wrote:

gingembre1 wrote: or maybe being a wine broker (since I speak French, and I would love to be able to use it in my job). What's a wine broker? That sounds uber-interesting. I want to do it!! (Without knowing what it is even... hmmm...) Could you do that job with a law degree and conversational (at best) French? Oh, and I'm an attorney for a state agency (yippee). It sucks and I went to school to do it. Lucky me. I am so smart. S-M-R-T. Recently I've decided to become seriously involved in my job so I can keep from slitting my wrists from boredom. (I'll FIND work to do, damnit.) And then I'll leave. Hopefully in the next few months. Hope springs eternal, eh?

A wine broker just basically buys and sells wine. Not so glamourous or sophisticated. But it beats what I'm doing now! And I figure someday I could turn that into buying trips to France, Chile, and Australia... We'll see, I've only been working here for 7 months, and I always told myself I'd stick it out for a year.

Hey, when you leave your job, you can find a new position in California. C'mon, you know you want to....

blubirde · Chanel

gingembre1 wrote:

A wine broker just basically buys and sells wine. Not so glamourous or sophisticated. But it beats what I'm doing now! And I figure someday I could turn that into buying trips to France, Chile, and Australia... We'll see, I've only been working here for 7 months, and I always told myself I'd stick it out for a year. Hey, when you leave your job, you can find a new position in California. C'mon, you know you want to....

A wine broker sounds fabulous! It combines my three favorite things: wine, shopping, and traveling. I'll take it! Where do I sign up? No seriously, how does one go about becoming a wine broker? Do you have to have buying experience or just wine-drinking experience?

I'd love to move to San Fran. I love that city. How amazing would that be? I'd have to have a kazillion dollars first though. Yes, I would.

manhattanmonkey · Kenneth Cole

I'm a student at a small liberal-arts college in WV majoring in Mass Comm and minoring in journalism. Doi - I forgot that I work at the campus library part-time while in school. This is my first semester having a job and I'm doing well so far.

I work for a newspaper as a journalist on breaks and during the summer.

-- Edited by manhattanmonkey at 23:26, 2005-09-08

halleybird · Hermes

Vanessa wrote:

I work in research/development for a large telecommunications company in a suburb of Chicago. I am an electrical engineer and unlike most of my classmates, I actually do use my degree. I develop and test 3G UMTS/IMS/WIFI. My current project is to provide 3rd Gen. hardware/software to Cingular in 2006.

OMG, Vanessa -- I never would have pegged you for an electrical engineer. You had to have been one of the only women in your class, right? Where I went to school, the ratio of men to women in electrical engineering was like 50-1.

To answer the poll, I teach high school (everyone knows that), but I have also been a newspaper reporter, a copy editor and a PR person for an NIH program. I have a degree in journalism & the equivalent of a degree in literature, as well as a post-bac in education. Teaching high school is not in my long-term plan, though -- I'd like to teach college English someday.

Bastet · Kate Spade

I'm on the policy staff at a cabinet-level federal agency in DC and I *hate* it. I have a law degree and my job has zilch to do with practicing law. *resists temptation to rant*

ladysi78250 · Dooney & Bourke

ShopChicago23 I would really like to email you, and ask you quesitons about nursing if you don't mind. Right now I am in school full-time majoring in nursing, in between if that is something I would really want to do, or if I am just pleasing the parents.

I work full-time at Best Buy.

-- Edited by ladysi78250 at 01:03, 2005-09-09

flknight24 · Dooney & Bourke

I'm a paralegal in a small defense law firm in FL. I just took the LSAT (well, in June) and I'm planning on applying to law school in the next few months. I'll hopefully be accepted so I can do basically the same boring job I'm doing now but just get paid a little more so I can pay off the loans I accumulate during three years of law school. Sounds like a great plan, doesn't it?

member · Hermes

ladysi78250 wrote:

ShopChicago23 I would really like to email you, and ask you quesitons about nursing if you don't mind. Right now I am in school full-time majoring in nursing, in between if that is something I would really want to do, or if I am just pleasing the parents. I work full-time at Best Buy.-- Edited by ladysi78250 at 01:03, 2005-09-09

i think you have me confused w/shopgirl82 - she's the nurse

ladysi78250 · Dooney & Bourke

oops so sorry!!!

jj · Kate Spade

I am so smart. S-M-R-T.

My favorite Simpsons line EVER!

I am a consultant for corporate philanthropy. Some days it's a pain in the a** but it's also incredibly rewarding.

gingembre1 · Kate Spade

blubirde wrote:

gingembre1 wrote: A wine broker just basically buys and sells wine. Not so glamourous or sophisticated. But it beats what I'm doing now! And I figure someday I could turn that into buying trips to France, Chile, and Australia... We'll see, I've only been working here for 7 months, and I always told myself I'd stick it out for a year. Hey, when you leave your job, you can find a new position in California. C'mon, you know you want to.... A wine broker sounds fabulous! It combines my three favorite things: wine, shopping, and traveling. I'll take it! Where do I sign up? No seriously, how does one go about becoming a wine broker? Do you have to have buying experience or just wine-drinking experience? I'd love to move to San Fran. I love that city. How amazing would that be? I'd have to have a kazillion dollars first though. Yes, I would.

The job listing that I saw to be a wine broker didn't list any specific experience requirements - just ambition, a liking for wine, and good people skills basically. If wine brokering is anything like almond trading/brokering (which I work in now), it's an industry that you can only learn through jumping right in. There's really no experience (except maybe appreciation and knowledge of wine), or school you could go to to learn. I do know that it can be a pretty darn good job (had some neighbors who were wine brokers), and like any kind of trading, it can be exciting. Guessing the market and all that fun stuff. It's interesting to have your life ruled by how a crop and harvest are doing.

But anywho, you're a lawyer! You should be able to find something in San Francisco, no problem, and then you can give me lots of great advice!!! (I always LOVE reading your posts). The only places I've ever lived have always been expensive (relatively speaking) so to me SF doesn't seem that bad. I can see how people moving here from other states would die of sticker shock though.