Media Person to Jewelry Designer, Marla Aaron’s Career Story!

Nobody can stop you from achieving your goal. It is time to get some inspiration from a media person Marla Aaron who dropped her career in media to be a jewelry designer.

Marla spent her 25 years serving as a global communications executive of agencies in Europe and the United States. She lives in New York with her family. Marla Aaron has a regret that she had never gone to art school like her friends. She was an excellent student who had a keen eye for fashion and style. She began to create jewelry with fish hooks. She also used some of the items that belonged to her grandmother.

As a foreign exchange student, she went on a trip to Argentina which was a turning point in her career for the next two decades. When we talk about her first job, she was selling advertising spots for the Spanish Broadcasting System. In her 20s, she shifted to Madrid and joined the sales department for Spanish Cosmopolitan and Elle magazines.

She went back to New York and worked at Columbia University’s journalism grad school for a year. She felt that she moved back from where she had started her career. She says, “It was all pretty boring.” She put herself in uninspiring to worse situations during her 30s. She got divorced. She also got fired from her job as a marketing director of Departures magazine. She says “That was a very hard time.”

She has been hunting for a new job. One night, an image came to her mind. It’s a pendant with a carabiner shape, and also has heavy-duty clips popular with climbers. Then she realized she loves the item which is sleek and has an architectural silhouette. She decided to create new items in gold, silver, and platinum. She joined a new job as a head of public relations for the Interactive Advertising Bureau which is a trade organization. She tried to approach shops in Manhattan’s diamond district and show her carabiner clip. All she could hear was ‘no.’ She says, “People tried and said, ‘No, that’s too much work.’ She further added “I had an idea of a level of quality and a level of excellence that was far beyond the organic, rough-hewn pieces I was making, what I call ‘art festival jewelry.’