Style has nothing to do with fashion. You can be stylish with the cheaper clothes. Just add something from you - a belt, a scarf or bandana, a piece of jewelry, a nice watch or something. Make nice colorful combination, not khaki with khaki. You Americans do like the khaki color. I find it the most boring one, but it matches well with almost anything else. I was working at Target and I needed to wear khaki jeans at work. Luckily, it looked great with the red t-shirts :) Regarding the standard, I may surprise you with a famous joke: There is a meeting of the presidents of Bulgaria, France, and the United States. Sarkozy says: "The salary in France is 4000 euro. When you remove the taxes, 3500 left. For a living, people need 2000. We don't care what they do with the other 1500." Obama says: "The salary in the US is 6000 dollars. When you remove the taxes, 5500 left. For a living, people need 3000. We don't care what they do with the other 2500.". Our president says: "The salary in Bulgaria is 600 leva. When you remove the taxes, 500 left. For a living, people need 1000. We don't care where they find the other 500." :D When I was in America 10 years ago I was able to make a pretty good salary (comparing to our standard) without even speaking the language well. Here, with good English and a Master degree, it's not guaranteed that you will find a job which salary can cover your basic needs. But this makes us smarter and more creative :)
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oh my kremena.shtereva! so you have to work very hard, save money and be very smart about how you spend it over there or you won't be able to live hardly, is that right?
So you worked at Target, very interesting and you got to see how badly the Americans dressed all day long! lol.
now I understand about style so thank you.
did you say where you work now?
bytheway, that was a great joke so thank you! lol.
The majority of people definitely have financial issues, yes. I can't complain, for now. I am currently unemployed because I decided to change the direction of my career. I used to work for a market research company where I programmed online questionnaires.
In Target I was working night shifts, so there were no customers, just colleagues :)
well howdy back again kremena.shtereva! oh so you didn't see the ugly way that the public dressed in Target, just everywhere else.
well what did you decide to change your career to if I may ask and do you have to go to school for that?
I want to do something which is more relevant to my personality, like photography. I also like blogging but at this point is just a hobby. I used to go on a photography course. I also enrolled in an online one. Honestly, I have no idea how to be an artist and to present myself and I am quite an introvert but I am learning and I truly like what I do. So I follow my bliss and the future will tell.
howdy back again kremena.shtereva! well that sounds very interesting that you want to go into photography or something artistic but are you between jobs right now or how to you earn income?
I fully agree that you should follow your bliss and I'm an introvert to but at least you have photos of yourself on your posts don't you?
Well, I have some savings to cover my basic needs, so I am good for now. All photos in my posts are mine and yes, there is a photo of me, too. Are you suggesting that I dream a lot and should get down to Earth :) This thought passes through my mind every day but I have to try. I have several more months to experiment and to look for opportunities. If I don't succeed, I'll just find a job according to my background.
howdy this fine Sunday kremena.shtereva! haha! I am suggesting that you keep dreaming and dream big! many times at the bottom of my posts I put this saying:" Remember...what the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
I've seen this many times in my life and I also am a big believer in Vision Boards where you put photos up of something you want or write down exactly what you want to accomplish and then keep it where you can see it all through the day..that sets mysterious forces that we don't understand to accomplish the things that you dream about.