I finally got my freakin' title.
That means, tomorrow I will be able to take care of my car! YES! Thank you, Jeebus!
The only sad part about this is that I will have to leave Seattle on Friday and head back to the armpit that is Lewiston, Idaho.
*sigh*
I still haven't decided what I want to do with my life. I was so certain that I wanted to be a teacher and now I am just not so sure. I really really really really really want to go into cosmetology. I love doing hair and makeup and everyone tells me that I am incredibly talented in both (with no formal training whatsoever) and that I would go really far in it.
I found a school that I would really like to check out. It's on Capitol Hill in Seattle. It's the Gary Manuel Aveda Institute. Tuition for a 50 week program is $11,500 plus $1,500 for my cosmetology kit, and then $250 registration fee. Combined, its a hell of a lot less than a four year institution, and this place garauntees job placement. I was called by them today after applying online for additional information and they invited me up for a tour and interview... I would absolutely LOVE to go...
There is only one problem; my parents.
My parents measure success in the amount of money that you make and to them, doing hair just "isn't going to make you very happy..." Of course, I disagree because this is something that I really want to do, but I am so hung up on how my parents feel about what I do that I can't break the news to them. I can't tell them that I want to quit traditional school at a four year university and go to some urban & fashion-forward beauty school in the gay neighborhood of Seattle.
Why can't I tell them? I don't know. I wish I did.
All of my peers and even other adults have said to me, "Brooke, you're an adult. You dont have to care what your parents think anymore. You have to do what you want to do otherwise you'll never be happy no matter how much you make."
I know they're right, but why is their advice so hard to take.
I feel stuck.
That means, tomorrow I will be able to take care of my car! YES! Thank you, Jeebus!
The only sad part about this is that I will have to leave Seattle on Friday and head back to the armpit that is Lewiston, Idaho.
*sigh*
I still haven't decided what I want to do with my life. I was so certain that I wanted to be a teacher and now I am just not so sure. I really really really really really want to go into cosmetology. I love doing hair and makeup and everyone tells me that I am incredibly talented in both (with no formal training whatsoever) and that I would go really far in it.
I found a school that I would really like to check out. It's on Capitol Hill in Seattle. It's the Gary Manuel Aveda Institute. Tuition for a 50 week program is $11,500 plus $1,500 for my cosmetology kit, and then $250 registration fee. Combined, its a hell of a lot less than a four year institution, and this place garauntees job placement. I was called by them today after applying online for additional information and they invited me up for a tour and interview... I would absolutely LOVE to go...
There is only one problem; my parents.
My parents measure success in the amount of money that you make and to them, doing hair just "isn't going to make you very happy..." Of course, I disagree because this is something that I really want to do, but I am so hung up on how my parents feel about what I do that I can't break the news to them. I can't tell them that I want to quit traditional school at a four year university and go to some urban & fashion-forward beauty school in the gay neighborhood of Seattle.
Why can't I tell them? I don't know. I wish I did.
All of my peers and even other adults have said to me, "Brooke, you're an adult. You dont have to care what your parents think anymore. You have to do what you want to do otherwise you'll never be happy no matter how much you make."
I know they're right, but why is their advice so hard to take.
I feel stuck.
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but you've got forever to make money. and people with talent in a field can make money if they take their talents to the right place. There's no reason a cosmotoligist on contract with a modeling agency or photography company or magazine couldn't do very well. and if it's what you like to do then it WILL make you happy.
I say just run it by them. not in a "gee...do you think it'd be ok" kinda way but in a "I'm seriously considering this, both because it's what I would have fun doing, and also because I think I could be really good at it and use it to make a future for myself"
you can deeeeew eeet!
And yeah, you have to love the car.