Jeni’s Design Diary

I’m going through Job Search Skills Workbook: Take Charge of Your Career, by The Art Institute of Houston, and this is exercise 1-2.

What I’d really like to do:

I want to own my own business, and work from home while raising my children. I have had many ideas for businesses.

I really do enjoy interior design, and would like to practice it. I’m only interested in a part-time business; I’m not career focused. It’s totally feasible. What really matters is how good I am, and finding people who want to use me. I want a home office that is designed well. Eventually, I’d like to hire someone who is like I am right now to help teach them. Kinda like discipling.

I’d like to have a photography business. I’d shoot events, formal portraits as well as nature. I would use the nature photographs as art projects. I would find a way to serve every customer that came to me – whether or not they could afford my “normal rates”.

Wedding coordinating and make up artistry also interests me. I would like be able to offer this service in some capacity.

Sometime in my life I want to write one of the books that have been forming in my mind.

What are the typical desired qualifications in an entry-level employee?

(Job Titles: Interior Designer I | Entry Level Interior Designer | Level I Interior Designer)

According to Salary.com, qualifications for an Interior Designer I position consists are:

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Wow. I’m at a loss for words to describe how silly this is. Out of everything our “governor” is asked to sign, she puts her autograph on this?!

“NCIDQ works toward the acceptance of the NCIDQ examination as a universal standard to measure the competency of interior designers.” Hmm, I wonder what they are alluding to?

How are the people of WA to observe this special day?