WEBVTT 00:00:00.060 --> 00:00:01.480 >> Hello, my name is Loren [assumed spelling] [inaudible]. 00:00:01.480 --> 00:00:04.920 And the name of my firm is LRS Interiors. 00:00:04.920 --> 00:00:06.690 And I'm an interior designer. 00:00:06.690 --> 00:00:09.200 My job on a daily basis consists of many things. 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:14.790 There probably is not anyone one consistent way to describe what a typical day is like. 00:00:14.790 --> 00:00:18.140 I do both residential, and I do commercial design. 00:00:18.140 --> 00:00:20.860 So I have a staff. 00:00:20.860 --> 00:00:24.960 A lot of times I will see myself typically checking with my staff. 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:31.720 Many days I have messages and e-mails already waiting me to take and check in or fires 00:00:31.720 --> 00:00:33.350 to put out, if you will to start my day. 00:00:33.350 --> 00:00:36.770 So some days, you know, it's just you wake up and you put out the fires 00:00:36.770 --> 00:00:38.770 and your day takes on a life of its own. 00:00:38.770 --> 00:00:41.650 Or my day takes on a life of its own. 00:00:41.650 --> 00:00:47.980 I would also say, a typical day could involve client meetings and appointments, networking. 00:00:47.980 --> 00:00:52.310 I may be meeting with some people to establish new relationships 00:00:52.310 --> 00:00:55.060 or planting seeds for the future. 00:00:55.060 --> 00:01:01.670 Going to the [inaudible] or locations where we'll be working with [inaudible] or resources 00:01:01.670 --> 00:01:05.130 to find products to prepare for an appointment. 00:01:05.130 --> 00:01:10.350 I will also be delegating to my staff some things for them to do to help me get ready. 00:01:10.350 --> 00:01:13.020 [inaudible] them paperwork, invoices, purchases orders. 00:01:13.020 --> 00:01:17.590 And that's probably one of the tasks I think that I would say I like to delegate out, 00:01:17.590 --> 00:01:19.880 but you still have to bring it back home. 00:01:19.880 --> 00:01:23.250 Paperwork, other types of paperwork such as signing checks. 00:01:23.250 --> 00:01:29.540 And I have 3300 square foot show room so I have inventory. 00:01:29.540 --> 00:01:31.180 So I may be purchasing a product. 00:01:31.180 --> 00:01:37.680 I may be meeting reps that are bringing product lines in or[inaudible] look at things 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:42.110 like that so that I have fresh product. 00:01:42.110 --> 00:01:46.500 Or I might be deleting product or I might be updating samples. 00:01:46.500 --> 00:01:51.510 And then obviously the projects getting them geared up and ready to present. 00:01:51.510 --> 00:01:56.220 So making sure that everything is tight, ready, reviewed, 00:01:56.220 --> 00:02:00.080 drawing sketches, layouts, rendering samples. 00:02:00.080 --> 00:02:03.200 Making sure we have everything that we need so that when I go to present 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:07.850 to a client whether it's business or a residential we're ready. 00:02:07.850 --> 00:02:09.080 What are my hours like? 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:11.960 I think that most people think that I wake up at ten in the morning. 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:14.090 And I'm home by four in the afternoon. 00:02:14.090 --> 00:02:17.160 And that is a big misconception about being an interior designer. 00:02:17.160 --> 00:02:22.450 I'm up early in the morning so that I can get an early start before the world starts calling me. 00:02:22.450 --> 00:02:28.930 So that I can either, you know, review e-mails, go over paperwork, plan a mental agenda 00:02:28.930 --> 00:02:32.420 that I think I'm going to capture and get on with the day. 00:02:32.420 --> 00:02:37.650 I want to get organized, get set, get dressed. 00:02:37.650 --> 00:02:41.430 When [inaudible] walk out the door the phone's already probably been ringing. 00:02:41.430 --> 00:02:44.410 And I have messages or text messages or e-mails. 00:02:44.410 --> 00:02:45.140 [inaudible]. 00:02:45.140 --> 00:02:50.760 So I know that I will check in with my office. 00:02:50.760 --> 00:02:57.760 And that's probably definitely either nine or ten o'clock that this is already underway. 00:02:57.760 --> 00:03:00.330 I'm usually at my first appointment by nine or ten. 00:03:00.330 --> 00:03:01.870 Sometimes I have earlier meetings. 00:03:01.870 --> 00:03:07.070 If it's construction, that might take place at seven thirty, eight thirty. 00:03:07.070 --> 00:03:15.560 Ending of the day, many times the world of design you're on your client's time. 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:19.860 So for me, a lot of my clients are home at six, six thirty, seven o'clock. 00:03:19.860 --> 00:03:21.950 And that's more the residential side. 00:03:21.950 --> 00:03:25.780 So when working residential, I will say that I am going 00:03:25.780 --> 00:03:28.770 to be seeing clients seven o'clock in the evening. 00:03:28.770 --> 00:03:31.100 Especially if they're home at six they want to eat their dinner. 00:03:31.100 --> 00:03:34.170 It's good to give them a chance to unwind so they can decompress. 00:03:34.170 --> 00:03:37.540 I found that one of the worse things to do is be right there 00:03:37.540 --> 00:03:40.110 at the door when they're ready to come home. 00:03:40.110 --> 00:03:44.290 So I set up appointments strategically to give them a chance, 00:03:44.290 --> 00:03:46.340 as I said previously, to decompress. 00:03:46.340 --> 00:03:50.060 So I'm going to be actually, you know, getting home at nine, nine thirty. 00:03:50.060 --> 00:03:52.210 And also I might be working on Saturday. 00:03:52.210 --> 00:03:57.450 So especially people who are beginning, you know, paying the dues. 00:03:57.450 --> 00:03:58.380 There's some boundaries. 00:03:58.380 --> 00:04:07.660 [inaudible] And I try to find times when they're going to be fresh and able to absorb and listen 00:04:07.660 --> 00:04:10.960 and take in the good design that I'm presenting to them. 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:12.230 Do I travel a lot? 00:04:12.230 --> 00:04:14.670 I would say it depends on the project. 00:04:14.670 --> 00:04:18.110 As far as local commuting, I would say I'm in the car quite a bit. 00:04:18.110 --> 00:04:21.580 And within an hour radius that's the most common travel. 00:04:21.580 --> 00:04:27.740 It's fun to say that you have a project out-of-state or, you know, going to Florida 00:04:27.740 --> 00:04:32.220 or going to Arizona or you know that dreamy kind of going out of the country. 00:04:32.220 --> 00:04:34.500 I haven't had so much of that yet. 00:04:34.500 --> 00:04:37.350 But a lot of clients do have a second home. 00:04:37.350 --> 00:04:39.850 And that sounds more glamorous. 00:04:39.850 --> 00:04:42.820 But it's kind of like anybody else's business travel, you're working more 00:04:42.820 --> 00:04:44.930 than socializing and hanging out. 00:04:44.930 --> 00:04:47.990 So if you get to do that once in a while -- 00:04:47.990 --> 00:04:52.510 and I hope to do that because my life personally allows me to do that. 00:04:52.510 --> 00:04:55.530 So I just think that's something I get to do. 00:04:55.530 --> 00:04:56.760 But it is work. 00:04:56.760 --> 00:05:02.850 So just for anybody thinking about that, if you can get a few days in have a little fun, good.