Why I Chose Cosmetology

I remember when I was in middle school and I decided to tell my parents what I wanted to do in life. At first I always wanted to do what my dad thought was best which was electrical engineering, it seemed fine with me until I realized it took a lot of math which I am not very good at. So, as a thirteen-year-old boy I did what I knew was best just keep quiet about wanting to do something different. Fast forward in time two years later I’m 15 talking with my guidance counselor about career jobs. She hands me a sheet with job titles to an endless extent, it stuck out just like that I circled the career path I wanted to take. Physical Therapy was now the road I wanted to go down, it was the best job title I could imagine helping kids with sports injuries and

Now that i am older and wiser i put my job to the side and returned back to school.I want to do something with my life that i am gonna enjoy doing.I also want to do it to have a better future for my kids and myself.I believe that i can do it and i will.This is what i love to do and i shouldn't quit just because i feel like i cant.I want to make my kids and family proud.I also want to fulfill my goal.I want to become a hairstylist and do make-up for famous actors and stars.With supportive people around me i believe i can do it.I have seen so many ladies who've been in my shoes and did complete it,so there is no excuse for me not to finish what my goal is.For this is why i want to become a future cosmetologist

“What do you want to be when you graduate high school?,” my mother asked me. She has asked me this specific question my entire life but today she wanted an answer. I was seventeen, only a month away until my eighteenth birthday, so it was time for me to make a decision. I told her I did not know and she started to list a bunch of career options I could pursue. She continue to go on and on then, she said Occupational Therapist. My mom described to me what Occupational Therapist did and their job responsibilities. That is when I decided that this is the career for me. I am driven to become an Occupational Therapist because I want to provide for my future family, and to grow spiritually and mentally in the process.

Becoming a cosmetologist requires many educational requirements that a person must qualify to get her license. Any person can get enrolled in a cosmetology school if she is at least sixteen years old of age (McKay). It will take a person about nine months, if she is a committed full time student, to complete every course of study and training required to obtain a cosmetology license (McKay). An individual does not necessarily have to stop working to go to cosmetology school, but it will take her longer to complete training and cosmetology school. “After graduating from a state-approved training program, students take a state licensing exam that includes a written test and, in some cases, a practical test of styling skills or an oral exam” (Barbers).

Being an older, non-traditional college student with 36 years of life experience behind me I thought I had my life figured out. Academically, I would take the degrees that I already have, coupled with the joint Bachelor’s degree I am about to receive from St. Mary’s University, go to law school earn my J.D. Become a practicing attorney and watch the life I have always wanted start to unfold. When given this assignment however, I began to seriously question myself about my passions in life and an immense dissonance overwhelmed me. Nearing 40 years old, I have felt for some time, that I should have in order what I want to do with my degrees and my life for that matter. If I was honest with myself, I do not and therefore, began to do a lot

California. The state that’s known for its palm trees and beaches. That’s where I learned about the next chapter of my life. When I first arrived to California, the atmosphere and culture caught me off guard. Seeing all my friends made me feel welcome and thrilled to live in such a beautiful place. I knew from the moment I got into the taxi with my sister that I wanted to take photos for a living there. My love of California came to be because of my experience during senior year, having the opportunity to visit with my sister and seeing the culture there, and the goals I want to reach in the near future.

Starting off with my academic choices I decided to fool around in high school. But when I graduated on time I got scared that I would mess up again and not do anything in life so I chose the first career that I thought I would be good at. This career was Cosmetology. I soon realized that I did not agree with their teaching methods and I couldn’t see myself in that career in the future. In deciding this I was now without schooling and stuck in the blank space of not learning anything, the blank space I was so scared of and tried so hard to avoid. As a child I had the dream of becoming a lawyer, I would defend people and fight for justice. Yet as I got older I realized that if I were to become a lawyer I would get very attached to the issues

Throughout grade school, I struggled with what my future would hold. I had an idea about what I wanted to achieve. For example, I know I did not want to live pay check to pay check, but I didn’t have a clue about how to achieve that. My entire life my mother taught me to work hard for what I wanted, and then I could reap the benefits later. I didn’t want to wait for later. I wanted to have my cake, and eat to. I knew I love books so maybe I could become a writer. The school Counselor suggested I take a career vocational test to determine what would work best for me.

So I just went with what I had done all my life, music. I loved music ever since my first piano lesson when I was eight but it soon turned into a chore. I began to hate playing but still I continued on. I often told myself that I would get better, but the more I thought about being a band director for the rest of my life the more I started to realize this was not for me. Then after a lot of thought I changed my major to business. My life seemed to be going know where. There was so many things that I knew I wanted to do I just did not know how to pursue them. I had always wanted to open up a small business so I thought maybe I will try this. Still I could not shake this feeling that I had no idea what I needed to do with my life. I prayed and prayed for God to show me a sign, anything. The sign did not come until my last semester at ICC, when someone suggested that I could study anthropology. At first I had no idea what it was or such major existed, so I did my research and found this to be the major I was looking for. I already had the University of Tennessee in mind and when I found out that Anthropology was offered I knew this was the right

My paper will be about my career of being cosmetologist .I’ve wanted to be a cosmetologist since I was small. My mom is a cosmetologist. She went to college in Mexico and studied for a year. I really wanna help people feel good about themselves and look good everyone should be happy with who they are so I wanna help them . I love helping my mom when she works and I love practicing at her salon I plan on working with her as soon as I get out of high school so I can earn money to go to a cosmetology school . I really wanna do cosmetology I enjoy doing it .

The start of my senior year of high school I thought that I knew what I wanted to do with my life. The first time you walk through the dim hallways of high school and breathe in the stagnant air everyone gets asked the same question “What do you want to do with your life”. Family, friends, teachers, and guidance counselors they all ask, “What do you want to do with your life”. I thought I knew the answer by then, but that’s a difficult question to answer at that age. I told everyone that I was going into cinematography, it was a cookie cutter response.

When we’re asked as children what we wanted to do with our life, it is usually not what we end up doing at all. My life experiences and challenges have pushed me to do and think about a career that I would have never thought nor known about. Social Work has had an enormous impact on my life and has pushed me to pursue a career in it. Although it is not a well-known or popular major, it is where I feel as if I will succeed the most not only in my career, but also in my life and goals. Growing up, I had dreams of being an artist, but as I experienced life, I realized I wanted to do something with my life that positively impacted others. My adolescence could be considered a rollercoaster; with lows as far down as losing my parents, and highs as far up as succeeding in high school and getting accepted to my top choice

Looking back on my sophomore and junior years of high school, I had a very difference idea of how my life was going to turn out. I worked three days a week on my school’s radio station, WBMT, and played guitar during my free time. I was going to major in business and minor in communications and hopefully pursue some career in music production and management. From middle school until late high school, that was the way I was going to affect people, through music. While I had worked as a camp counselor, and had experience working with children, it just wasn’t a path that I thought I could turn into a career. As I grew up and had new experiences, I began to reevaluate my plans for myself.

Throughout every person’s life, they have many aspirations to become a vast array of different careers, beginning as a young child. As a child, career choices are typically unspecific and seem unrealistic to an adult, but some children grow up and become exactly what they want to be. For example, when I was a child and people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always told them that I wanted to be a teacher. During high school, I lost that dream and turned to child psychology and then to pediatric nursing. Since I have started college, it became imperative for me to decide what I truly wished to be. My mind went back to what I always wanted as a child and I knew in my heart that this was the right decision; an elementary

Going into my junior year of high school, the dream of me going to college was always a goal of mine that was quickly turning into a reality. I was gaining scholarship offers to play at select universities and colleges to play basketball but one big question stood in my mind “What do I want to have a career in for the rest of my life, am I good at anything besides sports?” Not knowing which way to turn for ideas I began conversing with teachers, coaches, family, and administrators about different fields and even took a career personality test. All in search of some direction for the next step in my life. Plenty of different ideas came about but none that I felt that I could really make a difference in and love to do.