So, I spent all day studying, because I'm about to take my test to see if I'm ready to go out on the clinic floor. WHICH MEANS I MIGHT TAKE CLIENTS AS EARLY AS TUESDAY AND I AM NERVOUS.

 Today I started my professional development class that I only learned I was taking yesterday. My instructor was talking about the importance of communication, and he had a story from another one of his classes:

He was saying that everyone needed to learn to communicate with their clients, and this one woman said, "I don't."

"You mean you are going ( Read more... )

 I'm getting used to this schedule. I don't LIKE it, and I doubt I ever will, but I'm getting used to it. The good thing about working in a salon is that you can make your own schedule, essentially, especially as a booth-renter. I imagine it's different if you own the salon, or if you just work reception.
I actually don't have to like my schedule ( Read more... )

I finished my first week of cosmetology school! It's going well so far, even though the new sleep schedule is hard to get used to (I'm basically sleeping in two large blocks of time, so I'm alert through all my waking hours), and I still don't have the stand for my severed head, since it hasn't gone through customs yet (it happens once a year, ( Read more... )

 I enrolled without (another) hitch! I am so excited! And I have things being ordered. ORDERED!
I start on the 6th of October (only 2 weeks, and I actually do wish it were sooner), and the first day is an orientation- so I get my stuff, and I only have to be there for a few hours.
Anyway, I'm so happy that the whole thing was straightforward, and I' ( Read more... )

 I went to a meeting at my first-choice beauty school, and it went really well! I should start sometime before the fall, and I will be licensed a year after that!
Some things I have learned:
-Cosmetology has been largely unaffected by the recession, and is considered to be on the rise.
-It is one of the top 50 careers.
-Hairdressers are reported to ( Read more... )