Independents Hall Philadelphia

IndyHall Member Profiles: Megan Canney

Filed under: Community Support, From the Business Side, Independents Hall, coworkers

Meet Megan Canney.

Megan is a professional seasonal fabric home décor designer. Wow, that’s a mouthful.

For all you seasonal fabric home décor design civilians out there this means she designs those pretty Christmas stockings you hang above your fireplace in addition to various other holiday decorations. She claims designing Christmas stockings is a year round activity but I don’t buy it. My current theory is that it’s a front for her true profession: Mercenary Assassin. More on that later.

I couldn’t help but wonder how one gets into her alleged profession.

“I originally went to school for fashion design but mostly for wearable art, not production fashion.”

Seems she’s better suited for making wearable art for the runway, no?

“You can’t make money doing that so when I left school I got a job doing seasonal home décor design.”

Consider the dots connected. So how does Megan find herself among our ranks here at Indy Hall.

“I knew a lot of the early members and we would go to the Junto down in South Philly and people were always talking about the Hall. When I heard about the job I’m doing now I came and checked out Indy Hall before I even interviewed. I knew that I’d be working remotely and that doing so from my apartment just wouldn’t work for me.”

Interestingly, I more often hear that someone’s been working from home prior to joining the Hall but found them self too distracted to be productive. Excellent foresight she’s demonstrated here… a little too excellent perhaps.

“I’m a really social person and it’s hard not having a design team to work with so at least this way I get to have the social interaction as well as a separation between by working and living space.”

Megan’s presence at the Hall predates mine so I was curious to know how long she’d been here.

“7 months on and off due to the time I spend in China.”

… Now you remember that theory of mine?

“I go to China because that’s where all the buyers from all over the world go to meet with people like me and the salesmen. If a company does import they usually will meet in Hong Kong. It’s the hub of product related business transactions.”

I believe that, assuming that by “product related” she means people and by “business transactions” she means bounty collections. All I’m saying is you’d do well to buy plenty of decorations this year.

Happy Holidays folks.