-: Well, you need some kind of sales experience,
or at least experience with working with people
and just talking and being comfortable
around approaching people.
That's something that's very important.
And that's what gets you to the point of
going to their house and getting them to buy
a lot more furniture than they otherwise would.
And then, of course, the skills like the program arc
and just being familiar with the product,
and being up-to-date with everything.
We have industry reps that come in from different,
we carry other different companies,
so they come in every two, three weeks,
we have a different rep that comes in
and they would kind of tell us
what their new product line is and what their vision is
for the next couple months.
So that really gets us thinking,
oh, OK, this is the current trend.
But sometimes we have people
that just do not want to go with the trend,
they want something they've had before.
So it's a little bit of a give and take with that.
Like in school, we have that experience of,
oh, you have a client, this is what they want,
their budget is unlimited.
That's usually the case with a lot of our projects.
And so we don't have a reality aspect of it,
whereas in real life, you have an actual budget
that you need to stick to.
So that's something the internship comes into play.
It limits you in a way but challenges you as well.
I would say find a good internship
and build your career from that,
and try to at least find a good internship that you like
and you can feel yourself working.
A place where you can learn a lot from.
Because in school you learn, I guess, book knowledge
but it's an internship that really gets you
into the hands-on experience.
And interior design is a very learn-in-the-job
kind of career.