Thinking of getting into barbering or hairdressing? The Hair industry never been bigger business and there’s never been a better time to get into the hair industry
1. Can You Be Your Own Boss?
There are very few industries that have as many opportunities as the hair industry. In the hair industry, you have the opportunity to work within a company, rent a chair in a salon, work as a mobile hair professional and the opportunity to open your own business.
2. Can You Be Creative?
People heads are like a blank canvas that allows you to showcase your artistic and creative side, but remember they need to be able to style there new locks when they walk out, but you always make a collection and show case this at competitions and maybe you design that trend setting haircut.
3. Meet Some Fantastic Humans Everyday
Very few industries gives you the opportunity to meet and interact with such a diverse set of humans. Many hair professionals make good friends and contacts from their clients, you never know when you may need them to help you too.
4. The World is Open to You!
The art of cutting hair is a skill you can take anywhere. Hair professional are needed globally and once you have your qualifications, you can pretty much go anywhere you want within in your limits will take you, even tho there is a Guinness World Record for highest haircut done on the top of Kilimanjaro.
5. Each Day Is Never Groundhog Day!
Every day is different. Every client that sits in your chair will looking a variety of different look and different challenges, keeping it enjoyable and exciting on a daily basis.
6. Decent Monies
There is the opportunity to earn a decent money in hair industry, especially once you built a clientele and found your specialist area. So not only that you will making people looking incredible but you can be earning good money from it as well!
7. How Far Can I Go?
There are a huge selection of hair-based competitions both in UK and Worldwide giving you the opportunity to make a name for yourself, and well known for your skills and you could attract attention of big brands for them you be a educator or ambassador for them.
8. When should I Start in the Industry
It’s never too late to train in this industry or develop your skills. There endless amount of courses available from community colleges to private training academy but becareful you can't be a hair professional overnight it take around two years before you get decent understanding of hair and how it behaves
9. You’ll Always Have a Career
The bottom line is hair will always grow unless your folically challenged like me, people will always need to have their hair cut or coloured regardless of the economic situation. Even if you end up cutting hair in your kitchen, you can still make monies.
10. You Can Help
When you get into this industry, expect to be the poor man therapist, not only you make some incredible humans look and feel their best! You have the ability to completely change how someone feels about themselves and give them confidence, as they tell you things that maybe sad or happy but you be ready for them conversations and be ready listen.
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