glitterandgold
Well-Known Member
Hi everyone - it's been a while since I last posted on here but good to be back! I was just hoping for a little advice and would be so grateful for your input - will try and keep it shortish and sweet.
A couple of years ago I completed my Level 2 Beauty Therapy, absolutely loved it and intended to go straight back to college to do L3 Complementary Therapies. However unfortunately life got in the way and I ended up falling into a (good!) but non-beauty related full time job which I have been in ever since. I was keen to keep going with beauty so did a Level 3 Swedish Massage evening course which I'm now qualified in, again loved it.
This year I planned to go back to college to get my L3 Complementary Therapy qualification with the intention of working in a salon in the future, explained to work who were absolutely wonderful and bent over backwards to offer me a part time option so that I could combine the two - unheard of! However unfortunately the college had given me the wrong course details and at the end of last week informed me that the course ran over 4 days and not 3 as I'd originally been told - which means I cannot do the full time course without walking out of my quite intense job tomorrow morning giving absolutely no notice - which I could not do to them after being so good to me.
So I am now in a complete dilemma and have got myself into such a state over it, my heads all over the place! Sadly the college don't do part time complementary therapies (don't think many places do). I've found a years part time L3 Reflexology course and L3 A&P course at a college an hour away which I could do, if I was then to attend accredited day courses in things like hot stone massage/indian head massage/Hopi ear candling would salons see me as employable? Or would they really only consider a full L3 course to include everything in one go? I've never done a day course other than minx - are they informative enough?
I'd be so, so grateful for any advice - thank you in advance xxx
A couple of years ago I completed my Level 2 Beauty Therapy, absolutely loved it and intended to go straight back to college to do L3 Complementary Therapies. However unfortunately life got in the way and I ended up falling into a (good!) but non-beauty related full time job which I have been in ever since. I was keen to keep going with beauty so did a Level 3 Swedish Massage evening course which I'm now qualified in, again loved it.
This year I planned to go back to college to get my L3 Complementary Therapy qualification with the intention of working in a salon in the future, explained to work who were absolutely wonderful and bent over backwards to offer me a part time option so that I could combine the two - unheard of! However unfortunately the college had given me the wrong course details and at the end of last week informed me that the course ran over 4 days and not 3 as I'd originally been told - which means I cannot do the full time course without walking out of my quite intense job tomorrow morning giving absolutely no notice - which I could not do to them after being so good to me.
So I am now in a complete dilemma and have got myself into such a state over it, my heads all over the place! Sadly the college don't do part time complementary therapies (don't think many places do). I've found a years part time L3 Reflexology course and L3 A&P course at a college an hour away which I could do, if I was then to attend accredited day courses in things like hot stone massage/indian head massage/Hopi ear candling would salons see me as employable? Or would they really only consider a full L3 course to include everything in one go? I've never done a day course other than minx - are they informative enough?
I'd be so, so grateful for any advice - thank you in advance xxx