Should I give up the careers I want because I don't have the skills and the personality or should I go for it and struggle in drawing classes in college or perhaps struggle landing a job in retail management because of my shy, easy-going personality?
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Duh, don't go, paying thousands of dollars for a degree that you won't be successful at. Figure out what your strengths are do and pay for further education in that area. Pursue what you "like" as a hobby perhaps for the community theater or something. Hopefully in your search you will find something that puts your interests and abilities together.
No, don't give up.
But definitely have a safety net (college degree). There's a lot of competition for these seemingly glamorous jobs. The mall is full of cashiers and clothes-folders who want to be designers.
Try to find another area of fashion that you have qualifying skills in. Struggling though school will be hard. And i don't know if drawing can be learned.
Maybe a press person. or a coordinator.? There are plenty of areas.
Good luck.
Don't spend the money on college (esp if you need to take loans) until you are sure of what you are doing. Do an intern/assistant thing for awhile. See how you like it, and whether learning hands on will give you the confidence to pursue it.
If you want it hat much, then it wouldn't hurt to try. Most college should have recreational art classes for non-art students.
So, if you that nervous about your skills, you can give that a shoot before you take a actual art class. Or you can audit an art class, you have to pay for it and you won't get a grade.
To save a buck, if they have the space you can just ask the professor if you can sit in and you just have to pay for supplies and not tuition.
If you can get the hang of it, then you can enroll in a relative degree program concerning fashion. I think the field is called Textiles and Apparel Management... that is what the degree program at my university is called.
All else fails just get a degree in something else. As soon as I got to college I knew I wanted to do physics. I added math to that.
After three years, I started hating it, but I finished those degrees and now I am doing graduate work in engineering. I never saw myself doing that, but it worked out.
I know you can do it. I think the problem is your to down on yourself. People accomplish the craziest things & were all humans...Nobody more special then the next. You just need to break out of your shell sweetheart! :)
There are thousands of very talented creative people out there that would die to have those design jobs, so if you don't have the skills to think of designs in the first place don't waste your time trying to become a designer. However are you good with buisness? If you are you could get a degree in Fashion Merchandising, You'd be right in the middle of the industry working with fashion without haveing to draw or design
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