7 Reasons For Becoming An Accountant And Not A Fashion Designer
By Ludmila Corlateanu on October 23, 2008
BUCHAREST – I am a fashion designer from Bucharest, Romania. In the light of the latest global events, and as a result of being often asked about the advantages and disadvantages of my job, I thought it would be useful to give some subjective and personal thoughts for the sake of the glamour-loving young human beings of today, waiting at the gate of the fashion empire.
When I have children and they grow up, I will strongly encourage them to take a career path that is mathematically stable and not creatively uncertain. Here’s why:
1. A future accountant in childhood will most likely not experience and psychological trauma (while you take them to the kindergarten) if their shoe color do not match their trousers. A future designer in childhood will remain scarred for life on the day when mommy gave only one outfit option, and it was not in the favorite colors of the season.
2. A future accountant in the student years will always be in the warmth of numbers and formulas that are reliable, and will have formulas that do not change from autumn to spring. A future designer has to learn how to predict trends in skirt pockets of 2060 in 2010, has to guess what is going to be the level of sleeve puffiness if the Euro is going down, and learn how the tea ceremony clothing colors have changed in the past 8 months. Rocket science is much easier.
3. An accountant suffers only the first year at the job, until the experience comes. A designer has to prove every 6 months their worth and abilities, bring sales through his/her predictions. Experience, in most cases, doesn’t count.
4. An accountant will always have a secured job. If the economy grows or if it weakens, there is always need for someone to calculate the profits or the losses. A designer is dependent upon economic growth, since some bread on your butter on breakfast makes most feel better then a new and genially cut skirt.
5. An accountant can enjoy the fashion goods. A fashion designer often disregards the very advices they give to the fashion magazines, and mostly wear unfashionable jeans and t-shirts.
6. An accountant works 40 hours per week. A designer works 168 hours per week.
7. An accountant will celebrate Christmas (if he/she is a Christian), most likely on the 25th of December. A designer will have it somewhere in late February.
All the above are from my personal and somewhat obtuse point of view. If yours is different, congratulations and welcome to the fashion world.
Sincerely and forever yours,
Mila.
Fashion designer Ludmila Coralteanu reports from Bucharest.
I am currently studying graphic design, but i’ve recently been regretting my decision. I was never concerned with making a ton of money, and just worried about getting a boring job, so I went into art. Now, I feel like this really isn’t for me. I’m sitting here in my room, looking at art and design books, and I’m wondering to myself, “wtf am I doing?” I truly feel like my heart would be at rest if I got a career with job and salary stability, like accounting.