I am considering (pretty much made my mind up) leaving university and doing a nail tech. course as well as a few other things (waxing and facials) so that i can be a self employed nail technician.
I am 19 and have been considering this for a long time now. I'm unhappy at university and really want to get on with doing something i am very interested in and that i know i will love doing.
I realise this is going to be a lot of work and i would continue another job whilst setting up my business and hopefully gaining a good amount of clients so that i can have this as my future career.
Does this sound impossible? Does anyone have any tips?

Be great to hear your opinions.
Thank you so much
Jessica x

hiya there!
i think youll find that we all started out mainly doing something else!!!!

if you feel its right for you then go for it!!
thats what we here for to help!!!
have you looked at any courses so far??

Hi Jessica

I wish you every success in your new venture I am sure you will be just perfect. It is a very stressful time choosing which company etc to do your training with etc.

I suggest you call a few companys and as them to send out the training information and read through them. I usually advise my girls to the write down any question then call the company back to have these answered.

I always find this works but you will find your on groove and what is right for you

Good luck dariling

How exciting - its a fab industry (and can absolutely be profitable!!)

Somthing else you might want to think about is seeing if you can get some 'work experience' somewhere just to see what its like. Obviously not doing treatments until you are qualified but maybe helping out with cleaning or admin stuff just so you can get that insiders glimpse - it might help just making your mind up that last little bit

Best of luck!

Hi,
Im in a pretty similiar situation myself except I left my job not uni. I start my 1st beauty course tomorrow but start my creative nail training in august and cannot wait. Like you I pondered for a while, but having quit I know it was best thing I ever did. Even if it does not work, least I can say I tried. And im sure it will be same for you. Even if the nails dont work out it doesnt sound like you are enoying your course anyway.
Give it go and best of luck!!
xx

Thank you for your response! I definitely think this is going to be the right decision for me, my partner will support me with whatever decision i make which is always what you want to hear!
I've looked at the courses that united beauty have to offer and the Nail and Beauty School (NABS) i'm just trying to work out the best things for me. These have both been recommended to me which i'm grateful for as i've been looking at so many different things lately!
thanks again x

That's definitely something i will look into, thank you so much for the tip!
Thank you for your response! x

Well good luck with your course, i'm jealous i wish i was starting tomorrow! ha.
Yeah exactly that's what i think, no matter what if i decide i don't like it or whatever (which i really can't imagine happening) then at least i will have tried.
Thanks for your reply! x

Yeah i definitely intend to make sure i have all my questions answered before i make the big decision!
I'm considering taking a course on running my own business too. See what i can find!
Thanks for your reply! x

I can only recommand a course on business!! it's not as easy as it seems!

Yeah i definitely think it's a good idea for me to do a course on that too. I definitely believe it's not as easy as it may look...but i think that would make it even more rewarding!

here (in my country) I know you can take such classes to start up as a self employee... they're pretty interesting...

Thanks for your response, i'm attempting to find something now hehe. I never thought i'd enjoy researching things as much as i am!

maybe a geek here took one near you, you never know!!

I had mine, it was a 2 day course, had my second day yesterday, the purpose of it was to help you doing your business plan, and then have an excercice for 3 monthes where you had to look at the bills and record them, and then compare your business plan to what really happened AND (that was really interesting ,the rest was like accounting only) finding out why you didn't sell as much bikes as you intended to... (the situation was about selling bikes, I don't plan on changing my career lol)

I will have more classes like that, self employee or management, etc. I like these lol.

haha sounds good! I think i'll do another post see what other geeks have done!