I have been mobile for 4 years now and it's starting to get me down. Just everything about it but I don't even know what I wanna do next so I'm stuck just now.
Firstly it's the lugging around, carrying a beauty bed / spray tan machine / nail kit all at once just isn't happening, and see when I have to climb the stairs with all this stuff it exhausts me! And my wax pot, I have had so many disasters. I will wax a client, then leave and I will make sure my wax pot is secure and flat in my car, but no matter how careful I am it ALWAYS spills everywhere! And every night I spend 1 hour heating it up and cleaning it again.
Secondly, I have clients texting me at 11pm and even though I don't reply until the morning it still gets to me. I feel like I'm constantly 'on edge'. And then when I do reply sometimes it takes them over a day to get back to me. Does anyone know what I mean? I feel quite lonely workin mobile too, I have nobody but salon geek to express my feelings to
Another thing that stresses me out is clients cancelling last minute, I had a bridal party recently and was meant to do 6 sets of lash extensions, and the night before the bride text me saying I would only be doing 2 sets. That's alot of money to lose...
Another problem I have is that alot of my clients live one hour away in this wee town, I try to group them all together once a week, but recently one client has been getting a bit 'attitude' with me if I'm not going there on the day of her choice. Infact last time she kicked up such a fuss I ended up inviting her to have her lashes done at my flat on my day off! I know I shouldn't have but she was really persistent with me and I felt like I had no other choice. And she underpaid me by £10, which I only noticed after she had left, and I just let it go.
The thing that gets to me the most is how I feel like some clients look down on me, or disrespect me. For instance, I'm trying to do their lashes and they are on the phone to someone or trying to text, I just find it rude. Fair enough speaking on the phone doesn't affect your lashes but I just find it rude. And one of my clients actually said to me the other day "are you going to uni? You need to go to uni or you will regret it" , as if to say I'm not doing anything with my life. The same client then asked me if I was going on holiday this year and when I replied saying yes I'm going to do voluntary work with animals in south Africa and then I'm going to travel around brazil for 5 weeks, she didn't say anything! She literally went silent and changed the subject. Now I can understand if she was a regular client who I see every 2 weeks she could be annoyed that she won't be able to have treatments done, but is is only the second time I have seen her this year!... I was really annoyed by this. I have had a really tough couple of years, last year my dad died of cancer and I was caring for him, it was horrific, but since then I have started to really think about what life is about, and i realised life is too short, so I decided if I wanna work hard and go travelling, nobody will stop me... And I work so hard, sometimes 7 days a week, i really do go the extra mile for my clients, and I save all of my money so I can travel and do what I need to do with my life, but this client was just trying to get me down. The majority of my clients are so happy for me because they know what iv been through, and they are such nice people, but I do get the odd one that completely brings me down and makes me wonder why I even bother.
Has anyone else felt like me being mobile? My friends tell me to get a job in a salon but I have been there and it's not for me, I need to work for myself, theres no doubt about it. But I'm honestly just feeling so fed up and I don't know what to do next and it's really getting me down.
Sorry for completely ranting but I would be interested to hear anyone's stories about mobile and where u went with your career afterwards. The thing with mobile is, once you have all of your clients and your busy you can't go anywhere else with it. I don't even care about the money anymore I was considering opening a salon but I don't know if that's right for me either, the whole coupon culture scares me...and there are so many salons in Edinburgh it's ridiculous....I would also like to be a product trainer for a company like espa, but these jobs just seem so hard to get, I have no experience. Ahh. I just don't know what to do anymore. But it's getting to the stage where I wake up and cry at the thought of work. I need a change, or something needs to change at least but I just don't know where to start.
Thanks for reading anyway
Firstly it's the lugging around, carrying a beauty bed / spray tan machine / nail kit all at once just isn't happening, and see when I have to climb the stairs with all this stuff it exhausts me! And my wax pot, I have had so many disasters. I will wax a client, then leave and I will make sure my wax pot is secure and flat in my car, but no matter how careful I am it ALWAYS spills everywhere! And every night I spend 1 hour heating it up and cleaning it again.
Secondly, I have clients texting me at 11pm and even though I don't reply until the morning it still gets to me. I feel like I'm constantly 'on edge'. And then when I do reply sometimes it takes them over a day to get back to me. Does anyone know what I mean? I feel quite lonely workin mobile too, I have nobody but salon geek to express my feelings to
Another thing that stresses me out is clients cancelling last minute, I had a bridal party recently and was meant to do 6 sets of lash extensions, and the night before the bride text me saying I would only be doing 2 sets. That's alot of money to lose...
Another problem I have is that alot of my clients live one hour away in this wee town, I try to group them all together once a week, but recently one client has been getting a bit 'attitude' with me if I'm not going there on the day of her choice. Infact last time she kicked up such a fuss I ended up inviting her to have her lashes done at my flat on my day off! I know I shouldn't have but she was really persistent with me and I felt like I had no other choice. And she underpaid me by £10, which I only noticed after she had left, and I just let it go.
The thing that gets to me the most is how I feel like some clients look down on me, or disrespect me. For instance, I'm trying to do their lashes and they are on the phone to someone or trying to text, I just find it rude. Fair enough speaking on the phone doesn't affect your lashes but I just find it rude. And one of my clients actually said to me the other day "are you going to uni? You need to go to uni or you will regret it" , as if to say I'm not doing anything with my life. The same client then asked me if I was going on holiday this year and when I replied saying yes I'm going to do voluntary work with animals in south Africa and then I'm going to travel around brazil for 5 weeks, she didn't say anything! She literally went silent and changed the subject. Now I can understand if she was a regular client who I see every 2 weeks she could be annoyed that she won't be able to have treatments done, but is is only the second time I have seen her this year!... I was really annoyed by this. I have had a really tough couple of years, last year my dad died of cancer and I was caring for him, it was horrific, but since then I have started to really think about what life is about, and i realised life is too short, so I decided if I wanna work hard and go travelling, nobody will stop me... And I work so hard, sometimes 7 days a week, i really do go the extra mile for my clients, and I save all of my money so I can travel and do what I need to do with my life, but this client was just trying to get me down. The majority of my clients are so happy for me because they know what iv been through, and they are such nice people, but I do get the odd one that completely brings me down and makes me wonder why I even bother.
Has anyone else felt like me being mobile? My friends tell me to get a job in a salon but I have been there and it's not for me, I need to work for myself, theres no doubt about it. But I'm honestly just feeling so fed up and I don't know what to do next and it's really getting me down.
Sorry for completely ranting but I would be interested to hear anyone's stories about mobile and where u went with your career afterwards. The thing with mobile is, once you have all of your clients and your busy you can't go anywhere else with it. I don't even care about the money anymore I was considering opening a salon but I don't know if that's right for me either, the whole coupon culture scares me...and there are so many salons in Edinburgh it's ridiculous....I would also like to be a product trainer for a company like espa, but these jobs just seem so hard to get, I have no experience. Ahh. I just don't know what to do anymore. But it's getting to the stage where I wake up and cry at the thought of work. I need a change, or something needs to change at least but I just don't know where to start.
Thanks for reading anyway