Love4orchids21
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Let me start by saying I love what I do! I've grown a lot and will never change careers but I'm looking for an honest opinion for either a reality check or a second opinion on leaving.
So to start! The salon I'm at is commission only, we are not paid hourly and booth rent is not offered and is a heated subject there. Our hours are 9-6 4 days a week and 9-9 two days. I must make myself available 60 hours a week! At 5 if it slows it's acceptable to kinda leave if no ones come in. This salon has decent walk in clientele but some days one or two will walk in. We are paid 60% commission but we buy all of our own products, no styling products, color, nada. Just back bar ( which she still complains and threatens to charge). We have no receptionist and it's our responsibility to make a "team" effort to answer phones on top of towel service and help walk in clients with questions, and clean.
Flash back to them hiring me, I was an intern and worked for free for 6 months, I mostly just watched everyone work, asked a few questions and helped clean. After about 10 month of working for her I was selling my own home and took maybe 3 days off total in the month I was told that she felt I didn't earn that, and I needed to try harder, and boost my confidence. Granted she hired me right out of school, she would complain about my confidence with men's cuts but never would ask what I'm struggling with or help me. I finally just got over my fear and now I'm soaring with everything from men's cuts to color and really working it.
She hired three new girls that know nothing and it's up to everyone to train them because the owners not always there to help, and I'm finding myself frustrated because that's going to take away from my business and I feel like what I give (45-60) hours a week just isn't enough. We aren't busy enough to hire 3 girls (2 part time, 1 full time). I feel extremely frustrated, over worked, underpaid. The area I work there isn't a lot of money and service prices are higher for the area so it's hard!
She complains there's no money yet her and her husbands take a vacation every 2-3 weeks, she's never there, we often run out of coffee, toilet paper, cleaners. Chairs and sinks are broken and haven't been fixed. Girls get frustrated because we don't see the commission money going anywhere at all.
Do I need a reality check of suck it up? Or should I look in other areas? My boyfriend and I are talking about moving in together but I'm scared of starting all over, but hiring new girls that I now must help train is making me feel a different higher end area is good!
So to start! The salon I'm at is commission only, we are not paid hourly and booth rent is not offered and is a heated subject there. Our hours are 9-6 4 days a week and 9-9 two days. I must make myself available 60 hours a week! At 5 if it slows it's acceptable to kinda leave if no ones come in. This salon has decent walk in clientele but some days one or two will walk in. We are paid 60% commission but we buy all of our own products, no styling products, color, nada. Just back bar ( which she still complains and threatens to charge). We have no receptionist and it's our responsibility to make a "team" effort to answer phones on top of towel service and help walk in clients with questions, and clean.
Flash back to them hiring me, I was an intern and worked for free for 6 months, I mostly just watched everyone work, asked a few questions and helped clean. After about 10 month of working for her I was selling my own home and took maybe 3 days off total in the month I was told that she felt I didn't earn that, and I needed to try harder, and boost my confidence. Granted she hired me right out of school, she would complain about my confidence with men's cuts but never would ask what I'm struggling with or help me. I finally just got over my fear and now I'm soaring with everything from men's cuts to color and really working it.
She hired three new girls that know nothing and it's up to everyone to train them because the owners not always there to help, and I'm finding myself frustrated because that's going to take away from my business and I feel like what I give (45-60) hours a week just isn't enough. We aren't busy enough to hire 3 girls (2 part time, 1 full time). I feel extremely frustrated, over worked, underpaid. The area I work there isn't a lot of money and service prices are higher for the area so it's hard!
She complains there's no money yet her and her husbands take a vacation every 2-3 weeks, she's never there, we often run out of coffee, toilet paper, cleaners. Chairs and sinks are broken and haven't been fixed. Girls get frustrated because we don't see the commission money going anywhere at all.
Do I need a reality check of suck it up? Or should I look in other areas? My boyfriend and I are talking about moving in together but I'm scared of starting all over, but hiring new girls that I now must help train is making me feel a different higher end area is good!
