The New Directions in My Life (part 1) All of us are well aware how important it is to have an outline for life with clear goals, but often life doesn't happen according to our plans. Sometimes we face failures, which lead to disappointments or push us to find new opportunities and start directions in life. Although I graduated from the University as an engineer of garment industry, and my diploma allowed me to work as a clothes designer or a sewing manager, I couldn't find any work for a long time in a garment field. This led to my professional live turning out differently, and I had to learn how to do a lot of other operating activities and duties. Thence I believe that only when we face obstacles and experience difficulties, we begin to develop our potential, to evolve our skills and to gain confidence. After my graduation I returned to my hometown, where there were only two factories that produce clothing and a few dozens tailoring studios. I was looking for a work, but factory management couldn't offer me an engineer position since I didn't have any work experience in this field. They offered me only a seamstress position, where I would have to work a few years to get the opportunity to become an engineer. I decided to try to work as a sewer, yet I immediately saw that working conditions were terrible. Sewing shops were very noisy, and regardless of the season it was always very hot and stuffy inside. Also, it was difficult for me to accept the fact that many seamstresses were uneducated, some of them used obscene speech. Ever and anon they smoked and drank at work, and periodically I smelt tobacco and alcohol on a work space. A manager constantly screamed and humiliated employees in order to get them to do their job. In this connection I quit and I tried to get a job in private sewing studios. Several times I was installed a trial period, during which administering always found my work unsatisfactory and said that I wasn't good enough for them. I was very disappointed and felt despair, because I couldn't work neither on factories nor on private establishments, despite the fact I liked and enjoyed creating and sewing clothes. This is then I started to looking for other opportunities. I bought two sewing machines and some necessary tools and I began running my own small business for the production of costumes for dancing and shows. In a college and university I've got mainly theoretical knowledge about clothes creation process.