Wedding career jobs

I've thought of more jobs for myself. I sound really unemployed. Let me explain...

I guess this isn't like the other blog posts where I was just discussing jobs that I have kind-of thought were cool in the past, but could never see myself doing. Those jobs were full-time jobs; jobs that would require their required education.

But this blog post is more of a discussion of jobs I could see myself doing, as a side job. A summer job, perhaps. Nothing serious.

Unfortunately, I don't think these newfound plans will happen this summer. The summer is, in a way, only beginning, you could say, because we are only mid-June, however to me, the end is already very in sight. In other words, my summer always somehow ends up being pretty much completely full, even when I swear I only had a few concrete plans.

I suppose I could try to make something work, and maybe I will! But the place that would hire me would have to understand that I would work for a very limited amount of time. More-so in August, in June if there's even time for that. But that's the thing. Plans plans plans. So many potential things, too. Like in August. Something has to go. Something has to be sacrificed.

But if not this summer, perhaps in the future.

I think for a long time, (I'm being dramatic, maybe for a year, since I've started university), I didn't want to get a job that wasn't medical, and I kept waiting for the perfect job. I didn't want to have to go through what I did towards the end of my CNA job: hate my job, dread going to work. Even when I worked very very seldom towards the end.

But, not only did I just have to do some more research to find something, I also changed my mindset a little bit. Well, I have heard and seen that medical schools just want job experience in general. I am sure that medical experience is preferred and required but well, a job is better than no job. And that means that medical schools are literally telling you: get a job that's just your hobby, too. They just want you to have that job experience. To have customer service experience, maybe, if that's the job, or hone whatever skills the job does offer you.

And then a third thing is that I probably just also thought of some different types of jobs. I knew I didn't want something "traditional," in the sense that I did not just want to work in a restaurant or something. I can't even imagine enjoying that. It would be back to the "dread going to work everyday" type of lifestyle that well...isn't a very happy one.

But I've been thinking about weddings a lot and I guess they have been on my mind lately. Perhaps it's thanks to the fact that I've started watching "Say Yes to the Dress." I had actually watched so so many clips of it prior, on YouTube, and assumed that yes, those were probably just chunks of the episodes.

I was very correct in this, because those YouTube videos were like 8 minutes at most, and each episode is about 40 if not more. And there's like 23 seasons...and multiple shows, because there are multiple locations for those fancy fancy wedding boutiques the entire show revolves around. And then you just pick which show based on the people/characters. Or accent, perhaps. One place is in England I think.

The epiphany to check what the actual show streams on came one day. And to check the suspicion that a show exists, and it's not just (at least, fully) on YouTube. But I knew my family didn't pay for many subscriptions, so I assumed there's no way I would be able to watch it. But it must be the TV we have, because we do indeed have the accounts and the show.

But this isn't like a new obsession. I have always loved weddings. I guess I just find everything about them to be beautiful. Maybe that's just anyone that likes romance, but the actual event...I like all the details of it probably more than the average person. The wedding dress, hairstyle, makeup, it's all more special than everyday. The flowers, decorations, wedding photography, wedding videography.

My dilemma was realizing that a lot of those jobs would require a degree or some kind of background, and that I would not be the person for them since that is not my education, and I would be a fool to focus my attentions elsewhere.

Wedding photography, videography. My major is not photography, nor film. I'm also not a florist. Definitely not a makeup artist or hairstylist. Or an interior designer (um I'm guessing that's not the person that decorates weddings). And the only thing I could think that I could do...is catering and that is the one thing I didn't want to do.

So I enlisted the help of ChatGPT again. I would've researched like a normal person, both this and the medical jobs that I was researching, but I guess ChatGPT is the normal way to research now.

And it came up with two good ideas. Wedding planner, which suits me well because I am organized, detail-oriented, and passionate about the subject. And assistant florist. ChatGPT reassured me that it was a job that could be taught on the job, and that most places would hire me as long as I had good taste. Well I like flowers, and weddings, and I think I have good taste.

So there you have it, the perfect wedding jobs for me. I actually do really want to do them, perhaps both. Maybe not even just in the summer, maybe if the CNA job doesn't work out, I could find something close enough to the university. Though I believe that would be harder. CNA does sound like the way to go, based on future interests and concerns, as well as the fact that there is a university hospital on campus. So I could actually get to work.

***side funny note: I'm also not a bridal consultant. If you don't know what that is you're a fake fan. It's the person who finds the right wedding dresses to try on based on a customer's wants. If they're good at their job, they are to find THE wedding dress for each different person. The reason why their job is actually interesting, difficult, and respectable, is not just customer service, but the fact that out of a 1000 dresses, they have to find the right pile based on their expertise, knowledge of dresses/details/silhouettes, and the customer's wishes. I could never envision myself as one. Why? Because I make way too much fun of the dresses when I see them/watch the show, think wayyyy too many things are ugly, am picky, and would never want to sell a girl an ugly dress. I think I would cry, and try to convince her not to. She would be like, "oh I love it" and I would be like "no." I'm way too brutally honest for the field and am just not the fit. I also am not into sales. I can't and don't want to convince someone to buy something I don't agree with, like an ugly dress. A friend of mine and I are watching the show. There was a character in the very early episodes named Claudia (I say very early, because she was fired). She was fired because she was annoying (very annoying to watch as well, I didn't enjoy seeing her on the screen, it was like a jumpscare everytime), and bad at her job. That'd be me. Except, unlike Claudia, who was sure she was doing nothing wrong, I would basically fire myself. "Yep, I'm not the right person for you. Sorry this dress is ugly."