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Curation Capsule I

April 20, 2015 By Elizabeth Rice Leave a Comment

 

Things I didn’t know about until recently that maybe you also didn’t know about and would enjoy knowing exist:

  • A summer camp for grownups that my good friend is going to and I really want to go to too if my work schedule allows for it.
  • A blog that understands a concept of minimalism I am trying to embrace. Some how I keep buying more stuff in order to have less though, Hmm… Must curb internet shopping! Though I think the real solution is to pack away seasonal cloths so I can’t see them. Always seeing what I can’t wear, seems to cloud my vision of what options I do have!
  • A subscription I think I can get behind once I curate my closet better and better consider my work wardrobe.
  • An article about a human I adore, and who seems to be tackling the same life issues as me. Together we shall embrace the mid-twenties and be ok with adjustments in who our self now is.
  • A pair of shoes that might revolutionize my work wardrobe game. Step one: stop buying other wardrobe fun items so I can have these shoes!

Filed Under: Fashion, Life

What is the Dream Job?

April 16, 2015 By Elizabeth Rice Leave a Comment

Metro by Matthew Wiebe

What does a dream job look like? It’s easy to idealize with any job you don’t yet have what it will entail. Does that make it naive to dream about if you really don’t know what you are dreaming about? Probably not, but better to spend time with a realistic or rational dream that you fully appreciate than an idea that is not yet fully formed, no?

My dream job, in naive form, is to be a work at home blogger. My dream job more fully formed would be a freelance writer and critic (for clothes I think. Not a thing? I will make it a thing). This partly requires me to complete forming my opinions on what qualifies one to be a writer and critic, and whether I need to actually do anything to qualify myself first before pursuing this dream rationally. Is a background in performing arts, studio arts, and the law enough? Critical thinking and deep thinking along with organized detailed writing should be sufficient to begin I think. I dream of it being freelance because that gives me time to do more reading that feel like pleasure but is actually in pursuit of the dream (like reading philosophical books, artist biographies, and niche histories and such things).

Another part of actualizing this dream that I have less fully formed is the ideal income structure. Everyone can pretty much say that having more money would be a benefit, but do we all think about where it comes from? I do in the corporate sense but it’s harder for me to figure it out in the freelance sense. Corporate can get you more money but it usually involves just putting more hours or performing a harder task. When these are the sole reason for why someone gets paid more, it is not necessarily a compelling career path in my opinion. I’d rather get paid $40,000 a year and work 40 hours of challenging enough but not draining work a week, instead of $60,000 a year and work 60 hours a week where you never have time to take a breath when you are at work or at home. All that makes me think is that is a life that feels shorter, and more stressful. I’d rather find a way to get by with the $40k, instead of work like crazy so I don’t have to compromise on lifestyle.

So what does that mean for the blog? First it involves a decision to not be “just a blog” and transition to treating myself like a professional writer that does more than write “this is pretty buy it” lists and home people buy things are clicking on a commission link. I’d rather earn a flat fee, or less income, if it comes from something more neutral. Is one Google ad square naive? How do you balance the want for authenticity with a humane desire to want to make a living without a hustle? Those are questions I haven’t fully answered for my dream job yet.

It’s much easier to come up with this things I want to spend money on. I want to be able to provide a freelance job for others. I want to hire illustrators for essays. I want to hire expert writers who know more about something that I am interested in. I want to be able to buy a luxury product and provide a sincere critique that doesn’t feel the need to sell the product for a commission with the option. With a true critique I serve a reader better who wants or needs to know if they should spend their hard earned dollars on such an items that is harder to find an in depth and thoughtful critique. Saving people the gamble of having to try it for themselves and take a bigger monetary risk to do so, that would be an underlying goal to my writing.

I don’t know if it is a millennial generation thing, but my hesitations in not perusing this is rooted in an ironic theme: everyone constantly telling you find a job that pays you to do what you love, not settle, and to make the leap. But is it not better to make a more educated leap? Is it not better to figure out if having a job that pays you to do what you love would actually make you happier in the grand scheme of things and not just the short run? I would hate to learn that certain loves in life could become ruined if pursued as a career, when I could have thought about it longer and realized that there was an equal love that could have been pursued and not ruined in this way. Of course, you can’t sit around waiting and thinking forever. Hence my hesitation up until now; no one is here to tell you when you’ve thought about it for enough time to not be considered a reckless jump. Cheers to making a measured decision? Or cheers to a reckless jump of faith without a basis? Is it right to ask advice about which of these choices to make? Is it right to judge someone for making one of those over the other? Abstaining from making a choice remains a choice, but you can always chose to not voice what you decided to others because I don’t think being a writer means others are entitled to guilt you into living a life that is completely transparent. That’s not a choice that I will make. Time will reveal the choice I did make here.

Filed Under: Life

Things I Want and Need More than a $1000 Custom Closet

March 16, 2015 By Elizabeth Rice Leave a Comment

Things I Want and Need More than a $1000 Custom Closet

Money is all about perspective. Something can feel like a great deal, but is it still a great value for your money when you compare it to what those same dollars could have purchased? I have tried to shift my thinking about shopping in this way recently. I appreciate what buying $350 looks, and feels like. And, know I love the difference. But, will I feel need to spend it as much if I emphasis with myself all other ways I could be spending those dollars? The value of $35 vs $350 in the category of shoes is a tangible difference that is easy to know. But, sometimes other uses for that $350 is not as easily envisioned. If I order one less $8-$15 cocktail while I am out for dinner it could make an impact in a long-term savings goal. If I focus on that $8-$15 as a tangible piece of a long-term goal like an international vacation and view that “trade” of a cocktail for one of my coffee’s in Paris, I might be able to order one less drink when I am out, one less probably mediocre dessert, one less makeup item I probably don’t need to replace something, etc. But, the bigger problem is that I have a wishlist of much pricier things that even those dinning items and I am here to conquer it with opposing tangible things that are a better value for my money in the longer term. Because, damn, it has been hard recently to not see such things as a “necessity” even thought we all know they aren’t truly required in life, so I am hoping this exercise will help me let them go and see them as simply “wants.”

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Want: A custom closet – $1000 and up

Need: Achieve my goal of saving $50,000 for a home down payment before I am 30

Want: West Elm Box Frame Coffee Table with Marble Top – $499 plus delivery, taxes, blah blah

Need: Pay off my remaining $4,900 in student loans before the end of the year, like a BOSS

Want: DOMA Razzle Dazzle Leather Jacket – $946

Need: A vacuum, an ironing board, new shower curtain, and other new apartment essentials that have either disappeared, broken, or bit the dust in my past couple apartment moves.

Want: To upgrade to an Iphone 6 – $649 and up

Need: Save for “funner” short-term goals like an international vacation, and camera equipment for the forthcoming YouTube channel.

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Now I just need to remember these things when making smaller unnecessary purchases, eh, Sparkle? Tweet me you biggest want vs need! Let’s spend better together this year.

– Elizabeth

Filed Under: Fashion, Life

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