So Stacked Homes recently wrote this awesome article that delve into the Renovation Industry from a Interior Designer's perspective and what was written in the article resonated with a lot of Interior Designers, even myself, because it's not very common to get articles like this, usually when renovation nightmares are brought up, it's always from the perspective of the homeowners.
Based on my personal experience while working at ID4, whilst there are irresponsible and unscrupulous Interior Designers that exist in the market, if you are engaging someone from a big design firm with hundreds of positive reviews and somehow still manage to have a negative enough experience that would warrant you to leave a bad review, chances are you are the problem.
If you are getting scammed by an Interior Designer however, then I honestly have no sympathy for you, the only reason you would get scammed is because you decided to go for the cheapest quote without doing any research on the Interior Designers and the company. I have met my fair share of homeowners who wants everything cheap, they don't value your effort and thinks that everything an Interior Designer quotes them should be the same as what a contractor quotes them because who needs to earn a decent commission, we Interior Designers just really love eating grass right?
If you have don't think Interior Designers deserve to earn their fair share of commission from upselling you on the various sub-cons services because that's literally how we earn money, if you think the work that we put into preparing design proposals and managing your project means nothing, well then, have a taste of your own medicine, let all the money you have earned and saved from working for years be robbed away from you by somebody who shares the same sentiment as you.
Anyways, update on life so far.
I have officially rescinded my job acceptance last week after a week of contemplating and my belief is if it's meant to be, I will really be excited to jump on the opportunity to accept the job offer, and if I am really unsure about a new job, then it probably isn't the right one for me.
After turning down the job offer, I was finally offered to take over as the store's Visual Merchandiser, not the In-House Stylist, this means I won't have to help the Sales team with their design proposals like what the current In-House Stylist is doing, I am only taking up a portion of his job scope, I guess the boss still wants me to do Sales as well, but I am trying to find solace in the fact that my job will no longer be focused on just sales anymore because I have been spending the last few months feeling this great sense of inadequacy at my job.
My Sales for the month of March is still at $0 because I have been spending pretty much the last few weeks of February prepping the Design Proposal for the job interview, so I wasn't able to get any proper walk-in leads in the store to follow up for March, and also the fact that I had planned to quit so there really wasn't any motivation for me to chase any sales.
If the In-House Interior Stylist hadn't submitted his resignation letter, I would have definitely thrown mine in because I am just really tired of dealing with retail customers.
I decided to stay mainly also because I felt bad leaving the store without any Interior Stylist onboard, everyone else aside from me and the In-House Stylist are purely sales, they have no formal background and experience when it comes to Interior Design, and my boss hasn't done anything bad that would make me feel glee from quitting and leaving the company in the lurch, that being said, this mentality isn't good because I am ultimately still a replaceable asset in the company and staying for the wrong reasons would only be detrimental to me.
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