The title of this blog could not be more fitting, my last day at GQ has officially arrived [after extending my stay by two weeks] and my time here also coincided with an interview for a PR assistant job at the luxury menswear label Dunhill. I'm not sure how to feel about this opportunity as of yet. It is an amazing brand and seems a lovely place to work with hugely friendly people but a small part of me can't decide whether my heart's really in it. My dream has always been to work in fashion and the more editorial placements I've done the more I've thought that my goal was to work in fashion magazines rather than fashion PR but having never tried it, and for fear of putting my eggs all in one basket, I've been feeling inclined to go for it. The amount of prep I've done for the interview is definitely more than I've done for any other position, including writing press releases, brushing up on Office programmes and researching the brand fastidiously.
These thoughts are unbelievably premature since I haven't heard if I've even got the job [which I'm sure can't be great news], but my mind is already weighing up the inevitable pros and cons of taking a paid job in PR or continuing with editorial work which is unpaid but that I love. This is a conundrum that absolutely everybody faces but I've begun to notice it more with the more placements I do. Two girls, one at InStyle and one at Glamour, were faced with the same predicament and the same logic- "I need the money!" And who can blame them really for taking the jobs, but I know they were both thinking the same thing that I am now: Is being out of the fashion game for a year worth the money?
I mentioned, maybe once or twice, in my previous post that I am due to go to Vogue in November which has proven to be yet another snag in this prospective PR job. The position would start immediately and I have been told that I will have to choose between Vogue and Dunhill. At the worst I would be burning my bridges with Vogue, after they have been so accommodating in fitting MY schedule into THEIRS- the only place I have ever worked that has done so- and at the very least, it would be highly unprofessional to leave them in the lurch just two weeks before my start date..
My parents have been surprisingly understanding and supportive, conceding that some money at this point would be helpful and that Dunhill would be a great place to work- but also agreeing that, should I be presented with an ultimatum, I should remain loyal to Vogue.
I graduated three months ago, and with that in mind I can't give up on my ambitions just yet- maybe ask me the same question in three years. I'm hoping I'll have left the days of working unpaid far behind me.
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| My mock press release was kindly "marked" by one of the people at work |
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| This has nothing to do with PR or fashion, but I love Boris. |
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