Biggest Pet Peeve

Ok so let me just start out by saying I LOVE MY JOB, I think it is the smartest decision I have made in my life so far. So when people totally rip on hair dressers and hair school it drives me insane. I was having a conversation with one of my roomies the other night and she was telling me how she wants to go to hair school but her parents won't let her. I asked why her parents don't want her to and she replied that hairdressers don't make enough money! THEY ARE FREAKIN TEACHERS! No offense to teachers or anything. But really, if I worked full time ANYWHERE, and got my cliental built up to where I'm busy, I'm pretty sure I would make more than a teacher. So i decided to list all the reasons I love my job and reasons why if someone wants to go to hair school they should go!!!!
1. I LOVE cutting hair - I get to go to work and do the one thing that I love doing more than anything. Doing hair is my passion. How many people can really say that?
2. I get to talk to people all day long. I know a lot of jobs get to do that, but I get to talk about things I actually like to talk about. Okay not always, there are some crazy people but for the most part people are nice and normal and talk about really interesting things.
3. For a 20 year old girl in college, I make pretty decent money. No I'm not rolling in the dough...yet. But if I were to work my top priority and move some big city, I could really make some big bucks. There is a man in Manhatttan that charges $1000 for a hair cut! ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!! Do you know how long it takes to cut someones hair? 30 minutes to an hour tops. Now lets do the math... If that man works 40 hour weeks, he makes $40,000 a week (That's not counting colors and those are where you make your money) So his yearly income is roughly 2 million dollars!
4. I can make my own hours when I have my own salon. My boss has 2 kids at home, she works 3 to 4 days a week, from 9 to 2. If she wants a day off, she takes the day off. If she wants to leave early, she leaves early. How nice would that be?
5. I get really great benefits. My product is cheap, my haircuts are free and I do my own color. Not only that but my hair looks good (most of the time) Yes that is a little bit arragont but it's really nice when your hair gets messed up and you know who to fix it.
6. This is a cheesie answer but its true. When someone comes in and had been dying for a change and d you deliver what they asked for, it's the best feeling to see the excitement in their faces and how much more confident they walk out verses when they walked in.
7. I like that I can help my family out. I do families hair for free, they just have to pay for the product. People ask me all the time if that bugs me, I doesn't at all. I actually really like it. It's nice to know that I'm helping my family save money. When I went home last, I did some hair. I added up what I would have made if they were clients at work. My total was $330. It's kinda nice to know I helped my family save $300 dollars. That sounds like a Geico commercial.
8. It's something I can do out of my house when I'm married with a family. It will be really nice to be able to help, even if it's just a little bit.
9. Come of my clients have become friends. I've met a few people that I talk to and hang out with outside of work.
10. This is one that probably isn' t the best one but I've really grown to appreciate it. Gossip! I hear a ton of gossip, especially in my small town, but I realize it can be useful. Like if I lived in St. George, I could find out about the girls my bros like, like are the good girls, are they cute, do they have good parents, you know all that fun stuff.
11. It challenges me. Doing hair is a lot harder than people would think. There are so many rules and then exceptions to the rules and sometimes the rules don't apply and when the rules don't apply you have to know how to fix what you just did without the client knowing you did anything wrong. I learn something new everyday, whether it's something I teach myself or something another stylist teaches me.
12. Shrinks are over rated! Just go to your hair stylist because we hear just as much as any shrink. I'm kidding... partly. I have had to learn how to react to thing people say in a professional way and not give my honest opinion, so I've learned to deal with a lot of different people. I had a client who was kinda... crazy. She saw Joseph Smith in a vision and he showed her the gold plates and then the next time she came in she was leaving her husband because he was addicted to pornography. It was really sad
13. Hairstyling is the best! I love it, love it, love it!!!!

P.S. I turn 20 in 3 days!