Cosmetology Career Eassy

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Deciding to go to college was not easy. I was planning to opt for Cosmetology school. I had a great passion for hair and makeup. I have colored my own hair, gave many of my friend's highlights and I gave my mom bangs. My plan was to work in my favorite hair salon De La Mer for five years, save up enough money and then open up my own beauty salon. My parents were not on board with my plan. As I was getting my makeup done for graduation, my makeup artist began to tell me how she wishes she had gone to college, she said she had taken the easy route out of high school and that she was planning on going to school. She said that this work requires too much labor and that it was not worth it. In her first two years she loved her job, but then …show more content…

I did not have the best experience in school, I always struggled and I wasn’t the smartest. I knew that there was no other choice because I needed a college degree to get a good job to make good money. There are very limited things that one can do with a high school diploma. I contemplated going to beauty school, but my parents thought I had much more potential, and that it would go to waste. I realized very late that it college is very expensive. I received scholarships from various private schools which covered only two-thirds of the tuition. My dad was not permitting me to take loans. Because of the Excelsior scholarship and because I was rejected by Farmingdale, I decided that I was going to attend Old Westbury. I began to search through the list of programs they had to offer. I went over the list twice to see if I missed anything that could potentially interest me. Criminology struck my attention. I wasn't exactly sure what it was, but I suddenly grew curious to find out. I did my research and I was very fascinated with what I had learned. So I thought that it would be fun to study crime and criminal behavior because in a way it would …show more content…

This is very true, even my parents have strongly urged me to pursue a career in the medical field. I wish that they had noticed from my grades in high school, that I was not cut out to be the doctor. I watched Grey's Anatomy, I saw how medical school and how residency was basically hell. I knew I was not smart enough, and on top of that my weakest subjects were math and science which are basically the fundamentals of medicine. Happiness is not something that everyone wants to achieve, but it is something very difficult to have when trying to keep others happy. To keep my parents happy, I had to move on from the idea of majoring in criminology. I will have to make the most ethical decision to keep my parents happy, despite how I feel. Right before the semester began I had to make sure I had all my required vaccines, so I paid a visit to my pediatrician. She was happy to see me and we conversated about the upcoming fall. She asked me what my plans for college were. I told that I had planned to study criminology, but that my parents had not approved. She said that I should consider physical therapy, that many young people were going into the field and that the salary was great. I told her how I didn’t want to do anything related to medicine or science. She told me that there wasn’t much science involved, that was a lie. Before I left she had asked me to just think about it. Later

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