10 Fashion Career Don'ts

Below are 10 ways of NOT to get get a career in fashion according to Kelly Cutrone:

1. Don't send a resume May hoping to get hired in the fashion business, as it's the slowest time of year. Instead, try January or August.
2. Do not Facebook the owner of a company or any prospective boss. If you do, make sure you have something interesting to say that warrants their two minutes.
3. Don't roll your eyes. If you do, roll with them toward the exit sign and then head out the door.
4. Don't expect equal rights in the workplace without being willing to do equal work, which includes transporting heavy garment bags, loading and unloading FedEx and UPS shipments, and rolling racks of clothing down New York City's uneven sidewalks.
5. Don't call in sick when you're not. 
6. If you're going to be a helper around the office and do things you know your boss wants done, don't jump up and down and give them a play-by-play each time you finish a task.
7. Do not try to re-create your family at work.
8. Do not overemphasize your nationality or gender as a way of making a point.
9. Do not think your boss owes you anything other than your paycheck.
10. And finally, don't cry in the office. Ever. If you have to cry, go outside.

This was taken from pages 168-169 in If You Have To Cry Go Outside.