Mentors and Your Interior Design Career
By Dawn WestInterior Design Columnist
Finding mentors can be one of the most important things you get out of interior design school.
Mentors can be great friends and sources of wisdom in your life and career. Build one-on-one relationships with experienced designers who are willing to guide you, and you’ll have resources that will be invaluable throughout your interior design career. Here are just a few of the times in your interior design career when you might need those mentors you found in interior design school.
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When You Need Design Inspiration
If you’ve chosen your mentors well, you admire their work. When you’re not popping with ideas of your own, you can examine their work and find details and ideas that move you, and possibly talk to them about those ideas. You’ll find your own creativity bursting in no time.When You Need an Interior Design Job
Throughout your career in interior design you’ll be able to turn to your mentors for advice – whether it’s about figuring out what kind of interior design specialty might suit you, deciding whether or not you should go solo, or networking to land a contract. Mentors are older and wiser, and may have just the connections you need.When You Need a Boost
By the time you’ve built relationships with mentors, they’ve seen you at your best and your less-than-best. As a result, when you need to be reminded of what you’re capable of, or when you’re having a less-than-best moment in your interior design career, these are the folks who can pick you up and send you back out to fly again.Your mentors may be teachers. They may be designers you intern with. Whoever they are, interior design school can help you begin to form the relationships that will carry you throughout your career in interior design.
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