wait so r u a florist? what would u say to someone who is considering also being a florist
yes! i have worked as a professional florist it’s true! my advice if you want to floristry is to make sure you work for some really good people! your boss is everything. your shop, it’s ethics and worker treatment is gold.i didn’t do courses in floristry, i started at a small grungy shop that gave me hands on experience doing super rookie stuff like cleaning and preparing flowers, making hand tied bouquets etc. after a year i got another job at a “high end” flower shop also doing rookie stuff, also working my way up to big bridal stuff in magazines, i’ve made fancy flowers for lots of rich people and celebrities, all of those flowers have died btw. floristry is a tough job, there is lots of drug abuse and depression (not really surprising if you have been involved w floristry tbh) people are very much underpaid for their skills. it requires long hours and intense sometimes really monotonous work because you can’t start a $50,000 project weeks ahead because flowers are perishable, so you pull several long shifts before the day of and the day of the event.If you love flowers, i recommend just experimenting with them on your own first. nature gives you lots of free flowers that poor people’s labor in the third world was not exploited to bring you. take pictures of your creations! learn how to be gentle and firm with flowers. ultimately my personal interest in flowers and pictures of homemade bouquets are what got me my jobs at the flower shops.good luck,xoxo yuna
