Post #3 - Keeping up with the creativity!

In the meantime, I relentlessly kept looking for jobs. I modified my CV approximately 170 times and applied to over 75 jobs. Not only did I not find a new job, but I received at least two rejection emails a day. It was frustrating and painful. I started doubting my worth and my capabilities and I felt lost and fed up. I was convinced this pandemic would have lasted 3 months.

Spoiler alert: it didn’t.

Despite the fact that looking for a job at that time didn’t seem to be the best idea, I enrolled online fashion courses and I finished a couple:

• Understanding Fashion: From Business to Culture at Institut Français de la Mode

• Fashion English at FASHION ENGLISH

After a while living locked down, I felt the need to find a hobby.

Since I was younger, I always liked to draw. It relaxes me a lot and allows me to put my brain at rest, which is something I am extremely bad at. Therefore, I got a Wacom pad and a drawing pencil for my iPad and started sketching and drawing. It healed me a lot and helped me go through this awful time. I started learning new skills and shared my sketches in my personal instagram profile. People liked the drawings so much that I created another instagram account called @thesketchish, where I would upload what I draw.

At the time, a friend of mine was working on getting herself a new job in the Human Rights field and she started to write her own blog. She loved the drawings so much that asked me to collaborate with her to illustrate her articles. I was astonished and happy that she asked. I realised that something that started just as a hobby to get a break from work could go further than I expected. After the collaboration, she got a job in the field she wanted thanks to the blog.