Hi Everyone,
I'm new to this site but I'm so lovin it, you all help each other so much..just fab!
I could do with some advise.. . I've done CND L&P foundation and have been practicing loads at home and on friends, and last week I was offered a chair in a busy Salon! Sould I give up my day job and start doin this full time? or stick with the office job and just do nails on the weekends?

Its a big step to take hun, are you in position to give up the day job financially? i think you need to really think hard about this one babe, do you have regular clients? will the salon help you with clients?

I would do weekends first. It's a big step to take.

Well I don't agree.
As long as you have a foot in both camps then you'll never make the break.

If it is a busy salon and you know you do great nails then make the break. Unless you go for it wholeheartedly you will never do really well with nails and you will exhaust yourself trying to do both.

I agree with Geeg, I was doing the salon thing part-time while I kept my full time day job. I went on like this for 8 months and almost killed myself in the process. It had a negative impact on everything. I could not build my clientele as I wasn't there enough, my full time job suffered as I was too tired and really didn't want to be there, and my house life suffered also. If you are able to financially do it, DO IT! That is why you trained. But make sure your ducks are all in a row. Ask the right questions at the salon to make you happy! And that it is a win win situation. If so, if it feels like the right place THEN GO FOR IT! And GOOD LUCK!

I would go for it!!!! good luck and I hope you have a great future.

Caz xxx

offers like that dont come along too often do it now or u will still be doin your full time job in 4 years time i know i am!

There is no better expereince than going to work in a salon, I just did a saturday and i learnt more than Id ever learnt, anyone that asks me about doin a nail course i always advise them to go and get some salon experience even if it is only a saturday to begin with.

Thanks for all your advise, I've had such a hectic weekend thinking about this! I went to the salon and ask more questions and she has a girl leaving to go back to the UK so I can take over her clients! I recon I'll go for it! Will keep you posted! thanks again.
All that I need to do is pluck up the courage to give my notice in!

good luck kate,
i agree if you have been given the opportunity to work full time in a salon and you dont have any obsticles in the way other than handing your notice in at your old job then to go for it would also be the answer i would give too

Hello Kate!

I see you live in spain? Are you one of those (us) who took a chance and went there to find a job and live in the hot sun? If so, i would take another chance, starting in the salon! What is there to lose? You could always get another job if it doesn't work out in the salon, and in the meantime, you will have lots of experience

Where in spain are you staying? I was in the canary islands, and the nail-tech's were really horrible. They were always busy, and made ugly nails that would fall of within a week because they were in a hurry making them. Also, my friends told me it hurt! Sadly, i didn't have my nailstuff with me when i lived there, but i if i had, i know i would be busy in no time!

I would love to hear how things are going at your new job in the salon

oo this sounds so like me! If I was offered a full time job in a salon - go for it! if you can do it, which it sounds to me like you can DO IT!

best to have tried it than to not do it and regret it

Sender deg en pm, jeg

fab opportunity Kate, I would jump at that chance hun. Good Luck xx
i didn't realise when I pm'd you back that you were taking over from another tech