The new blog!

I am now posting regularly at Circle City Style.

My ambitions are changing right along with the circumstances of my life. Marketing, public relations, and social-media craziness will always keep a place in my heart. But I started this particular blog to aid me in a job search. I've decided I'm going about it wrong. I sought stability, and employment in a corporate environment, and the more I go on, the more this feels like a wrong path for me. Moreso, it feels like a dead end. I'm paying the bills, but even though I've impressed a few of the right people within this company, it seems that my efforts are not enough to get me out of the call center environment and into a more suitable, creative place. I've carefully studied some top people, worked hard to impress them, and and I've had my ideas, at best, stolen or completely ignored. I am so done playing a game that's gotten me nowhere. Maybe it's inexperience or naivete. Maybe I just don't have enough money. Maybe I'm not schmoozing enough with the right people. But I know, within the deepest parts of me, that I am made for better than this.

I'm not sure what direction I will take this blog in right now. What I do know is that I want to step into a more entrepreneurial direction. I'm going back to school for a two-year program in fashion and costume design. This and music are two creative fields I've long been interested in, but never pursued. I'm too old to go on floundering, and young enough that I still have a chance to chase these dreams. Circle City Style is the first step in getting my name and my new brand known. I'm formulating a more solid five-year plan including work in design, vintage-clothing sales, and fashion writing and marketing. Now is the time. The creative scene in Indianapolis is stirring in just such a way to make me believe I'm in the right place.

It just feels serendipitous. I feel like this is why I've been struggling so. This may just be what I was meant to learn. Stay tuned, and please check out Circle City Style, Indy's first and premiere street-style blog.

Many thanks and much love,

Leah