I was driving along one morning when I was thinking of all the jobs I wanted to do at one point or another, and remembered how frustrated I felt that certain job roles I really wanted to do wasn’t open to me….
Something like….I would have loved to have done some modelling but I always felt I was too short ~ I just about made it to 5ft! Even the trousers in the petite section could be too long for me sometimes lol! and maybe I just wasn’t what they’re looking for, and aside from that its finding the right agencies that are genuine and then hoping you would get picked. I just loved the glamorous idea of it! Maybe models would say its really not, but I really would have liked to try it lol!
Another one…. I really wanted to work for a fashion/beauty magazine. I was always really good at sales, starting in direct sales at 17 I knew then that I had fun when it come to sales and I was quite good at it, after a few knock backs, I got tough to the word no and enjoyed competing with myself to beat my last result, but I always had that feeling I could do more and achieve more.
I worked in a supermarket when I was 17 and felt disappointed knowing a lot of my friends was off to university and I choose not to because I didn’t believe it was for me , I didn’t know what I wanted to do yet, so it made no sense to me to go! I then started to look into joining a fashion/beauty magazine. I thought I could apply for the sales executives role to sell advert spaces, I thought to myself, there is my link to get in! Hurrah!!! I could then work my way up in that company and do really well for myself! Unfortunately I didnt even get an interview and do you know why......? Because I didn’t have a degree!
Could you believe it!!! You know that seriously does grind my gears!!! Think of the talent and hard working people that lose out on opportunities everywhere because of a “Computer says no system!” Every job I had ever done in sales, I was top seller! And I couldn’t even get an interview for a sales position because I didn’t have a degree!!! pfft! I still refused to go to university, study for 3 years, for a random subject, get myself into debt, to get a job I knew I could do without having to do that! I did apply a few more times as persistence tends to beat resistance lol! But I got the same generic response!
I always wanted to run my own business, I do feel I’ve always had that inner entrepreneurial spirit. Never really liked the idea of having a boss.
I met an amazing man and we have had 2 beautiful babies together, this did mean though bills and life took over and we really didn’t have the money to invest into starting up a business. I decided to get qualified in beauty and I have been trained as a make up artist. So freelance work was a great option for me. I still felt that I needed and wanted to expand more, do more, earn more, BECOME MORE! I used to think to myself daily, Surely I am capable of achieving amazing things… but what??
I considered making and launching my own make up brand as an additional income opportunity to my make up work, but after a lot of research, that turned out to be very expensive. To launch new make up to a new market, get is tested and passed in all the right places with the right legislation and getting it to market was big money! So that wasn’t an available option for me at that time, but it was always in the back of my mind.
Then one day I saw an advert on Facebook from a friend promoting this amazing looking mascara, it was a brand new brand! I have heard of every make up brand going but I hadn’t heard of this one, I was so intrigued! I thought if its high quality make up then maybe I could sell that to my customers and clients as an additional source of income! Especially as I wasn’t getting commission from customers going in to the department stores and buying all the make up I had used on them lol! I did A lot of research and realised this would stand up tall to the high end make up I already have in my kit! So for £69 I TOOK THE PLUNGE! I was really quite impressed that the value of the kit was way more then £69! This was going to be my own make up line! Hurrah!!!
As I learnt more about the business and the network marketing industry I began to realise there was much much much more opportunity with this make up company then I originally thought! For the 1st time EVER! I decided what I wanted to be and for the FIRST TIME EVER, it did not depend on someone elses opinion of whether I was tall enough, pretty enough or smart enough with a degree! IT DEPENDED SOLEY ON ME! I decided I wanted to become a professional in Network Marketing! Yay! Finally I felt I found my career home! I set up my own limited company to build a business selling products I love!
Now I’m a Director to my own international cosmetics company! The big investments like massive marketing campaigns and luxurious product design & testing come from the company I joined, so I didn’t need to worry about that and I don’t need to spend an extortionate about of money to get a high end products, designed, manufactured, tested and put out to market! I now write my own blogs, do my own beauty reviews and network with other beauty and fashion companies ~ which is why I wanted to work for a magazine! And guess what! I’m the chief model to Natasha Pearson Co. where I model our make up everyday! hehe! And thats when it dawned on me.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR SOMEONES PERMISSION TO BE WHAT YOU WANT TO BE IN LIFE!
If you can’t find the way then CREATE the way! Every bit of information you need to create the way is out there! Don’t be afraid to invest in yourself and teach yourself!
You get one life! Make it count! ❤
Natasha xoxox
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