Officially one week into the job. My sales is climbing... Thank God...

REading up more on men's fashion.. and getting a little confused now.

Customers always say that stripes cannot go with stripes. As in striped shirts cannot go with striped pants or striped ties etc..

They can go together.. so long as the spacing between the stripes and the width of the stripes differ as much as possible between the two pieces of clothing.

Though, no more than two pieces on your body should be of the same pattern, say stripes.

The above sounds boring. This is easy to understand though.

I am quite confused and don't always agree with what is being written on colour matching. I will just go by my "visual guts" (if there's such a term). And when I don't know what to say, just say "Not following the rules of fashion is a fashion statement in itself."

Love my job. But I can't stay for long. It's not rewarding enough. I won't work 6 days a week, often including public holidays and weekends, 9 hours a day.. Paid peanuts earning so much for the company. This is totally against my ideal way of living my life. No! I won't work so hard to make someone else's rich. NoNONONOno.

Though, my pay would definitely go up in considerable amounts in time to come if I stay... I am just not good employee material, or perhaps, I have been somehow self fulfilling this prophecy that I am not a good employee.

I can only go for lunch or dinner when I am allowed to. I must reach earlier for work, but always leave later. Even when it's way past my time to end work, I have to stay when crowds stream in. Wanting to leave on time to meet my bf is a crime. They don't want to employ more people and work the existing ones to death. I have no time to go to the dentist. I can't go on holidays. I have to put on makeup, worsening my complexion. Sometimes I have to lie to customers, cannot tell the truth. I like to recommend stuff that really suits the customers, but the others like to recommend everything that cannot be sold or are higher in price. You get the drift.. Feel like I am deprived of fundalmental human rights. Told ya, I make a bad employee.

If I made a mistake in payment related issues, I am in hot soup. Any little mistake is being scrutinized and penalised for, being the klutz and sometimes blur girl I am, this is bad.

Despite my grouses, I would say this job is good. I am clearer about what I want and not want. I learn a whole lot of stuff, how a retail outlet is run etc...Picked up important skills -- sales skills, people skills, skill of dressing up my boyfriend, skill of ironing and washing his clothes in future... hahaha.. that is if he's good to me, i will consider washing and ironing his clothes. out of point.

Isn't it what I always like to do -- sell stuff?

I still dream of being an entrepreneur.