A couple years ago i was freaking out about what i was going to do with my life. Yes i had already graduated college in 2013 and was working full time at a salon. BUT i wasn’t making much. when i say not much i mean like less than 15,000 a year. which how does one live on that? the answer. they don’t…. I started looking for part time jobs with no luck. I’m not sure if i was looking in all the wrong places or what. but i couldn’t get past the interview part. the most common response i got was, why would someone like you want a job like this? and that kinda caught me off guard. i was so confused why everyone thought i was high maintenance or a girly girl? yes i have a cosmetologist degree but i was raised on a farm and i know how to pull my weight. shoot i can drive a semi, I know how to back up a pickup with a fully loaded goose-neck trailer of round bails in between to sheds. but based on my resume i was a cosmetologist and in the eyes of many people that’s really not a career. which is wrong. because its a hard job. and its not easy. BUT since the job hunt wasn’t working out i decided that i should really do something to beef up my resume.
so i decided that i was going to open my own salon. but i didn’t want to go into it not knowing any kind of business or marketing things. which let me to my be i should go back to college and work my way up. well i applied and had to go though a bunch of hoops. Did you know that going back to college at 26 years old that even if you have a college degree they still want your high school grades?! super weird. also your ACT scores expire?! never knew that!! but i took all the tests and i got in to a really great college. LAKE AREA TECH! so far i really have enjoyed the college. Its so hard doing every thing online. that is something very new for me.
well in the long run i did end up buying a salon. I opened in September. so far its going very well. i love being my own boss!!! But i still get asked all the time. why do you still go to college? you already own a business? well the answer is…. I would like a back up plan in the long run and i love knowledge. my entire business is based off the use of my hands. what if something happens that i cant use them. my entire life’s work is gone. so have a second degree is a prefect way for people to look at my resume and be like wow two degrees? that dedication. so that is why i went back to college at 26 now 27 years old.
Life is Art 