Since the financial crisis hit the Netherlands I am getting more worried about my future. I am not into 9-to-5 jobs, but is right now a good time to get more educated? Or to be picky about jobs? I think not.

I believe the time has come to invest in jobs. Not by getting more educated or working for free, but investing in efforts. Some years ago it was enough to have an education and a pretty face. Today that doesn’t fill the entire picture anymore.

Employers want to see the efforts that you have done in your career, prove of effort that you will do for them and most of all; effort on the job interview, before they even begin to think of hiring you.

Lucky for me that I can still work as a model. Unfortunately though, modeling in the Netherlands also requires some investments. Most of the interesting jobs I get asked for are low buget, so unpaid. These are also the jobs that look very good on a resume and that girls are standing in line for. So does it pay to invest in a modeling career at times like these? I don’t know. It still wouldn’t keep me from falling down when the crisis hits the modeling world.

A positive thing about it though is that modeling teaches you really quickly how to present and express yourself in all sorts of situations. By modeling you get to know so many different people that you will quickly learn how to get along with all of them. And you experience so many situations that you will learn to act quickly under stress or other difficult circumstances. So maybe it is worth it to invest in a modeling career.

And, when I am not able to be a model anymore, I can start my own course. In this course I could teach other people how to present themselves. How to behave in certain situations and how to keep their cool under stress. Would you invest in it?

Marcia Farias,

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