DaniG
13-07-12, 07:05 PM
I have been working at the same salon for 6 and a half years. It's a small salon with just myself and my boss working there. I work full time doing hair and nails and she just does hair and only two and a half days each week as she's retirement age and only really opened the salon to help out a friend of hers who has since left. When she opened it she offered me the chance to train as a nail technician and go work for her and while there I trained as a hairdresser too.
I've had no intention to leave as I enjoy working with her and she's been a really good friend for longer than we've worked together and also a second mother to me when my family emigrated to Australia, but two years ago she put the salon up for sale. I've known this all along and she's always said that she'll only sell it if I have the option to stay on if I want to. But since she put it up for sale she's had no motivation to build up the business only for someone else to take it over and so I've had to work hard to convince her to bring in new services, such as Shellac, which is keeping me very busy with clients while she's a lot less busy. And that's where we hit a problem...
I always planned to become self employed when she retired and she's known this. I invested some of my money in more Shellac things so I could have access to two lamps in the salon as well as more colors and it was agreed that in return when she retired everything for the Shellac would become mine so I'd have a good start to setting up mobile. But there's now someone who is interested in buying the business (he already has another salon) and is keen to have me stay on working for him so he can offer nails as a service too. He is aware that the Shellac will belong to me and that's not a problem but I'm in a bit of a catch 22 situation. If I choose to leave when my boss retires she'll obviously have to tell him that and the business won't be worth anything, so won't get sold and she won't get to retire. But at the same time I have no reason to stay on after she leaves. Even taking into consideration the travel costs, products, insurance, losing some clients etc. I will still be better off going mobile than I will be staying on.
So it seems I have 3 options..
1) I choose to leave when she does, then we both end up staying till she's had enough and just closes up. Probably risking our friendship in the process but likely being able to continue with the clients I already have.
2) I stay on and the business gets sold, but all the clients I have worked hard to build up become the new owners and then when I do leave I am starting over.
3) Some kind of renting a table arrangement. Though I can't see how this would be of any benefit to either of us and from what I understand he's not too keen on this idea.
Is there anything I'm not taking into consideration regarding what I can and can't do with leaving and the clients I currently have? And does anyone have any thoughts on how I should proceed? Obviously I don't want to make things awkward in any way, but at the same time I need to look after myself as no one else is going to do it.
Sorry it's so long, but thanks for reading!
I've had no intention to leave as I enjoy working with her and she's been a really good friend for longer than we've worked together and also a second mother to me when my family emigrated to Australia, but two years ago she put the salon up for sale. I've known this all along and she's always said that she'll only sell it if I have the option to stay on if I want to. But since she put it up for sale she's had no motivation to build up the business only for someone else to take it over and so I've had to work hard to convince her to bring in new services, such as Shellac, which is keeping me very busy with clients while she's a lot less busy. And that's where we hit a problem...
I always planned to become self employed when she retired and she's known this. I invested some of my money in more Shellac things so I could have access to two lamps in the salon as well as more colors and it was agreed that in return when she retired everything for the Shellac would become mine so I'd have a good start to setting up mobile. But there's now someone who is interested in buying the business (he already has another salon) and is keen to have me stay on working for him so he can offer nails as a service too. He is aware that the Shellac will belong to me and that's not a problem but I'm in a bit of a catch 22 situation. If I choose to leave when my boss retires she'll obviously have to tell him that and the business won't be worth anything, so won't get sold and she won't get to retire. But at the same time I have no reason to stay on after she leaves. Even taking into consideration the travel costs, products, insurance, losing some clients etc. I will still be better off going mobile than I will be staying on.
So it seems I have 3 options..
1) I choose to leave when she does, then we both end up staying till she's had enough and just closes up. Probably risking our friendship in the process but likely being able to continue with the clients I already have.
2) I stay on and the business gets sold, but all the clients I have worked hard to build up become the new owners and then when I do leave I am starting over.
3) Some kind of renting a table arrangement. Though I can't see how this would be of any benefit to either of us and from what I understand he's not too keen on this idea.
Is there anything I'm not taking into consideration regarding what I can and can't do with leaving and the clients I currently have? And does anyone have any thoughts on how I should proceed? Obviously I don't want to make things awkward in any way, but at the same time I need to look after myself as no one else is going to do it.
Sorry it's so long, but thanks for reading!