Cosmetology School Grads Must Adjust to Working Saturdays

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Cosmetology School Grads Must Adjust to Working Saturdays

Published: February 06, 2009
by Rosanne Ullman

Going to cosmetology school is a lot like having a 9-to-5 job, because those are pretty much your hours—9am to 5pm, Monday through Friday. On weekends you can do what you want, although it’s always a good idea to use the ti

me to practice what you learn in beauty school classes on mannequins—or on good friends who won’t hate you if you turn their hair green! But once you graduate and get your license, it’s another story.

I was interviewing a salon owner for an article I was writing, and she brought up this very topic. “You wouldn’t believe how many applications I get from people who want to work Monday through Friday, 9 to 5,” she told me. “I tell those applicants, ‘You didn’t go to the right school then. You should have gone to secretarial school!’ Salons are open Saturdays. In this business, Saturday is our busiest day.”

She’s so right. Eventually you’ll be able to work the hours you choose. But when you start out after cosmetology school, Saturdays are your best bet for building your clientele. That’s when the salon has the most walk-ins, and it’s when other stylists get overloaded and may ask you to help them out by taking a client. It’s always up to you to get the client to come back to you, but if you work on Saturdays you'll at least have an easy way to recruit them for their initial visit. More on this next time.

Photo is courtesy of Redken.