Make Shopping for Clothes as a Career
Believe it or not, you can make a viable career out of shopping for clothes.
This stems from the fact that many people are either too lazy, or simply averse – for one good reason or another – to the task of shopping for clothes. Now the task of shopping for clothes can seem to be a very easy one (and it is indeed a hobby for some people), but it can also be very demanding to some of us, as it calls for attention to details like color schemes, precise sizes and ‘makes’ (stitches and all that) – and attention, particularly this level, is something that many of us sorely lack. But even for those of us to whom shopping for clothes is a pleasurable undertaking, there is still a need for someone to go shopping for the clothes on a wholesale level, and it is here that the opportunity to make a career shopping for clothes arises: in going shopping for clothes on behalf of others. If you really enjoy shopping for clothes, you can, for instance, go shopping for clothes at a wholesale scale, the un-bundle them and start selling them on retail basis to other people at a great profit.
But the endeavor is not as easy as it sounds.
To make a career shopping for clothes, you will have to be very perceptive to people’s needs, and to the subtle trends emerging in the fashion scene. The way to make a killing out these trends is to catch one when it is right in the bud, find a way of feeding it (the trend) and make yourself some neat money out of it before the market gets flooded.
You will naturally need to have a sense of fashion to make a career shopping for clothes. You should be able – at the very least – to understand what shoe color goes with what skirt color, otherwise you risk traveling far and wide and coming back with items that are so mismatched that nobody buys them.
Good marketing skills too will be absolutely essential if you are to make a successful career shopping for clothes. Remember, this is not just about shopping for the clothes, but also finding a retail market for them once you have bought them. Generally the best way to market your clothes offline is through networking, though having a front-street store would help greatly, if you can marshal the resources required for it. Starting to sell the clothes online is of course another avenue you can explore – and indeed you can marshal the power of the Internet such that you can be shopping for the clothes online on one website (say a manufacturers website) and selling them on another website (say your own catalog website or through an auction website like EBay) and thereby making yourself money shopping for clothes and reselling them, without ever touching the (physical) clothing items!
How to Enjoy Shopping For Clothes
Shopping for clothes feels like too much of a hassle for many of us. Of course, there are the diehard ‘shopaholics’ who would fall sick if they didn’t go shopping for clothes at least once a month, but for most people, and especially men (the traditional macho type), shopping for clothes is a hassle that we only commit ourselves to do because it is something we have to do anyway, if we are to continue looking decent.
This aversion to shopping for clothes is typically not even consciously known to those of us who have it. It tends to manifest in subtle ways, through things like procrastination, where we keep putting off the task of going shopping for clothes endlessly, till we are left with no alternative but to get down to it. And even when we get to shopping for clothing – after having procrastinated the task endlessly – we are still eager to do it quickly, and get done with it.
Yet shopping for clothes need not be an unpleasant task, and it is in fact something you can get to enjoy.
The first step towards enjoying shopping for clothes is identifying the subconscious causes for the aversion to the task. Could it be the clothes salesmen (whom some of us consider a bit domineering) whom you don’t want to interact with? Could it be that you have been unconsciously conditioned to view shopping for clothes as being wasteful? Or could it be just a plain case of lack of motivation that you can’t really pin down to a particular cause? Identify clearly the subconscious cause to your aversion to the task of shopping for clothes.
Having identified the subconscious causes for your aversion to the task of shopping for clothes, the next step would be to take steps to counter those causes. Shopping for clothes is something you have to do, anyway, so you better find ways of enjoying it. If it is the ‘domineering’ clothes salespeople you don’t like, then you can consider opting to go shopping for clothes online, where you won’t have to interact with them. If on the other hand your aversion to the task of shopping for clothes is due to a subconscious feeling that shopping for clothes is wasteful, then you might consider working towards overcoming your guilt at spending, keeping in mind that clothing is a basic human need and money spend in meeting it is money really well spend. And if it is a simple lack of motivation behind your aversion to the task of shopping for clothes, you can address it through strategies like changing your pep talk or rewarding yourself for every cloth-shopping trip you carry out well, so that your mind is (in the future) subconsciously attracted to the task, in search of the ‘reward’ it got the ‘last time’ you went on the task.