Harlequin
Well-Known Member
Hi all,
Not really posing a question but more of a rant I guess. I'm just so annoyed right now.
I am HND qualified. Finished my course last year. Didn't have a salon job through college as I was living on my own and not at home and couldn't afford to work for minimum wage so I kept on as a security guard. Left college, worked in a salon for maybe 5months? Salon owner decided to cut my days so I decided that I had to find full time work.
Couldn't get into a salon so went back into hospitality. Been working as mobile since but not had much business despite all my efforts. So I set up a Facebook page, invited all my friends. Half of them liked the page, 2 of them came to me for treatments. Only had one problem with one finger (shellac) which I fixed and said friend was so awesome about it.
However, a third person (mutual friend) keeps bringing it up, saying how s*** Shellac is etc etc and she'd never get it (she doesn't even like my Fbook page), and even though I've done treatments for her before and she was really pleased she now has gone back to her original beautician but still snidely slates my work.
Today alone I saw her comment on someone elses photograph of Shellac saying that she had seen one persons peel off after one day (referring to the one nail that came away with our mutual friend). I was boiling and I wanted to post up something about it as the nail hadn't simply peeled, the nail itself was peeling as she had peeled off her previous application and then she caught it on her denim skirt and it had ripped off completely.
I am just so fe dup with it! Beauty and nails was all I really wanted to do and a put it off til i was 25 to do it. I'm 27 now, pregnant so god knows when I'll get back to work and I can't seem to get a foot in the door anywhere. I get no support from friends, I can't get any help with funding or grants even though I am not working just now because of the pregnancy.
I got a wee lease of life last week because I did a Minx training course and I asked if I could set up at a summer fete for a care home next week and I was so excited but this week has totally dragged me down. Aside form this daft thing I was messed about by a buyer on ebay which left me short money wise, and the same with a few Avon customers (Yes, avon...not salon material but I needed the extra money!) and after investing all my time and money on all the products etc to keep hitting brick walls with jobs and so on....it's just tired me out.
5 weeks to go til I have my baby so its not like I can go totally nuts trying to promote myself but seriously thinking of just closing down my facebook page, saying forget the fete and just see what happens after baby is born. I've been working so hard to try and be better at what I do as I know a qualification doesn't make you good at your job, even though I've never had a proper workplace mentor to go to for advice...and I cant blame everyone else for the areas I'm lacking but i'm finding it so hard to keep going and to stay confident when it's just a constant struggle. I don't even think I've broken even yet and I've been mobile since November last year...
Seriously. Think I need a break. Might be hormonal, but I know when I'm flogging a dead horse
Not really posing a question but more of a rant I guess. I'm just so annoyed right now.
I am HND qualified. Finished my course last year. Didn't have a salon job through college as I was living on my own and not at home and couldn't afford to work for minimum wage so I kept on as a security guard. Left college, worked in a salon for maybe 5months? Salon owner decided to cut my days so I decided that I had to find full time work.
Couldn't get into a salon so went back into hospitality. Been working as mobile since but not had much business despite all my efforts. So I set up a Facebook page, invited all my friends. Half of them liked the page, 2 of them came to me for treatments. Only had one problem with one finger (shellac) which I fixed and said friend was so awesome about it.
However, a third person (mutual friend) keeps bringing it up, saying how s*** Shellac is etc etc and she'd never get it (she doesn't even like my Fbook page), and even though I've done treatments for her before and she was really pleased she now has gone back to her original beautician but still snidely slates my work.
Today alone I saw her comment on someone elses photograph of Shellac saying that she had seen one persons peel off after one day (referring to the one nail that came away with our mutual friend). I was boiling and I wanted to post up something about it as the nail hadn't simply peeled, the nail itself was peeling as she had peeled off her previous application and then she caught it on her denim skirt and it had ripped off completely.
I am just so fe dup with it! Beauty and nails was all I really wanted to do and a put it off til i was 25 to do it. I'm 27 now, pregnant so god knows when I'll get back to work and I can't seem to get a foot in the door anywhere. I get no support from friends, I can't get any help with funding or grants even though I am not working just now because of the pregnancy.
I got a wee lease of life last week because I did a Minx training course and I asked if I could set up at a summer fete for a care home next week and I was so excited but this week has totally dragged me down. Aside form this daft thing I was messed about by a buyer on ebay which left me short money wise, and the same with a few Avon customers (Yes, avon...not salon material but I needed the extra money!) and after investing all my time and money on all the products etc to keep hitting brick walls with jobs and so on....it's just tired me out.
5 weeks to go til I have my baby so its not like I can go totally nuts trying to promote myself but seriously thinking of just closing down my facebook page, saying forget the fete and just see what happens after baby is born. I've been working so hard to try and be better at what I do as I know a qualification doesn't make you good at your job, even though I've never had a proper workplace mentor to go to for advice...and I cant blame everyone else for the areas I'm lacking but i'm finding it so hard to keep going and to stay confident when it's just a constant struggle. I don't even think I've broken even yet and I've been mobile since November last year...
Seriously. Think I need a break. Might be hormonal, but I know when I'm flogging a dead horse