Fabulous and Vain,
By Clair Maine

Dear Reader,

 

First off, thank you very much and welcome to FabulousAndVain.com! Whether you’re here on purpose or not, I am very thankful. As a token of my appreciation, please accept my gratitude expressed in the first sentence. In case you missed it: thank you! 

 

I refused to consider a life after graduation amidst a senior year I can now hardly remember thanks to senioritis substance abuse. It’s a thing.

 

I walked off the stage with my diploma and thought, cool! Now what?

 

“Fabulous and Vain” is my absurdly long answer to that very question. I moved back home to Manhattan, the city I am so lucky to have been born and raised in, the city of opportunity, the city that never sleeps, the city in which I cannot wait to live my life.

 

That’s why I can’t settle there yet.

 

There are many amazing people in the most unique professions, so exclusive you wouldn’t believe they exist. For example, a ‘multipotentialite.’ I want to be one of those! Speech after speech after networking and handshakes, I became obsessed with wanting to know people’s career journeys. Rather than “what do you do for work,” my go-to conversation filler became, “at what point in your career thus far have you felt most on top of the world?”

 

Further than networking, I set up more personal introductory meetings with potential mentors–guides if you will– to explore any opportunities possible; sports photography, graphic design, social media marketing, elderly body work, information technology, film production, bartending, painting, and of course, my dream for the past two years, fashion and journalism. None of these were taken far, except for one, but you’ll have to keep up for that story.

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Just past midnight on the 17 of October, I looked at my petite bank account and Googled, “cheap plane tickets out of JFK.” One thing led to another and with $6 to spare, I received a confirmation email containing my one-way plane ticket to Spain, set to fly smack in the middle of January. While I have not a clue of where to sleep once I arrive, nor many funds to work with, I do have this blog where I will write all the adventures that become of this foolery.

What I do know is this, I will make it my mission to find as many distinctive, inimitable people who love what they do. Similarly, I will find as many distinctive, inimitable people who are not at all passionate about what they do. All of these conversations will have at least one congruency; my asking of the very question, “at what point in your career thus far have you felt most on top of the world?”

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Won't this be fabulous?

 

I truly hope you enjoy reading it as much as I do writing it!

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Have a wonderful day,