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Combining Cosmetology School with Work: A Life Independent

Published: January 15, 2008
by Rosanne Ullman

Independent Living at Cosmetology School

“I was used to doing things on my own,” Samantha recalls as her initial reason for exploring her options for living independently while attending cosmetology school recently. Although she’s not sorry she rented her own place, that decision led her to compromise on other issues, including the quality of the hairdresser school she selected.

“Since being on my own meant I had to pay for a lot of things, I just went to the closest cosmetology school,” Samantha explains. In retrospect, she feels that other hairdresser schools would have offered her a better cosmetology education. It also was demanding to attend class 30 to 35 hours weekly while working 25 hours a week. In some classes, she says, “I’d be really tired and couldn’t focus.”

But there was an upside, mostly social. With no chance of cocooning in the comfort of her old teenage bedroom, Samantha hung out at the hairdresser school, which became a gathering place. “A lot of my friends came into the school to get things done,” she notes. All tolled, Samantha is content with her choice.

“I knew that this was going to be what I’d make of it,” she concludes. On balance, she says being on her own was “a great experience” and made cosmetology school a period of major growth in her life.