has it been four weeks yet?
I forgot how frustratingly predictable, yet unpredictable
retail can be. I can sit here for hours on end in my pristine palace without a
soul in sight, but the second I find myself with something I have to do, or on
a day when I didn’t have time to sweep, that’s when things fall into disrepair and everyone
comes in all at once. Or I’ll have a particularly good sales day and feel, you
know, hopeful for the future and whatnot, then the universe has to balance
itself out and someone will come back with a return! Is that what they call Murphy's
law?
It’s ridiculous. Let me see…..I’m feeling rather uninspired. At
a time when I need to be putting myself out there I kind of want to retreat more
than ever. I’m finding the social media
aspect of things the most daunting. It’s hard to separate business from
personal. I’m not an avid sharer in my regular life, so it’s hard to flip a
switch and start inundating people daily with miscellany on a million different
platforms. I would snicker at my
grandparents when they would go on diatribes about how ‘the Facebook’ is up to
no good and how does it know that I know this person? Etc, etc. I am that curmudgeon now, shaking my fist at Twitter and Instagram. Is there something I’m
missing here? There are people on Instagram who have 5 pictures of a tree or
something banal, and they’ll have 5000 followers. I’m starting to think half of
Instagram is all porn spam accounts or something, because I’m just NOT getting
it. Too tardy to the Instagram party I guess.
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| Give me some more good old-fashioned newspaper advertising! |
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Another bugaboo of late is the business of networking!
Having never had to do anything like this before, I am quite unpracticed to say
the least. I feel like Eliza Doolittle, perhaps a little too crass and rough
around the edges at times. I was out to dinner with someone the other night and
was asked to name three interesting things about myself. Duuuuhhhhhh, what?? I
couldn’t think of ANYTHING. NOTHING. Unbelievable. I’ve never thought of myself
as an uninteresting person, have I been wrong all this time? I do not know how
to play the game. These are things I should probably have ready to dispense at
all times, concise little eloquent elevator pitches. Homework!
Happy Thanksgiving! xx
