I have this friend. She recently finished hair school at a very expensive school, and moved right back to our hometown before she even wrote her final exam (she came back for a week to finish). She did have a job at one of the salons in town, she was an apprentice and was learning more and trying to get better, well, she recently up and quit that job. She said it was because she felt she wasn't learning anything, which would be fair enough if there was another place in town for her to go, but there isn't and she doesn't want to move back to the city.
She was asking me whether or not I thought she should just buy a house in our hometown and work at the other job she has, which is basically just a "pay the bills" type of job, or if she should try and do something with the hair thing. I told her I thought it would be wasting the time, energy, training and the money her dad paid to just decide to work a some other random job.
She also seems to have this sense of entitlement about her, she kept saying how she felt like she was on the bottom of the food chain, and how her life wasn't working out the way she planned, and so on. She also said that she'd have to work 5+ years in hairstyling to be making the same as she makes at her other non-hair job. Frankly, she's had it easy her whole life, her dad pays for everything, he paid for her tuition, supplies, any living expenses and anything else she wanted while she was in school. Pretty much every place she's lived in has been paid for or was owned by her dad. I think she expected to come into town and work whereever she wanted because she had gone to a good school, and was surprised to find that she'd actually have to work for something for once, and that she wouldn't just be handed what she wanted.
I tried being honest with her about the fact that I thought she was throwing away a career for a dead end job that she doesn't even enjoy, but she doesn't really listen unless things fit into her little world. *sigh* I don't even know why I talk to her, her whole world view annoys me most of the time.
She was asking me whether or not I thought she should just buy a house in our hometown and work at the other job she has, which is basically just a "pay the bills" type of job, or if she should try and do something with the hair thing. I told her I thought it would be wasting the time, energy, training and the money her dad paid to just decide to work a some other random job.
She also seems to have this sense of entitlement about her, she kept saying how she felt like she was on the bottom of the food chain, and how her life wasn't working out the way she planned, and so on. She also said that she'd have to work 5+ years in hairstyling to be making the same as she makes at her other non-hair job. Frankly, she's had it easy her whole life, her dad pays for everything, he paid for her tuition, supplies, any living expenses and anything else she wanted while she was in school. Pretty much every place she's lived in has been paid for or was owned by her dad. I think she expected to come into town and work whereever she wanted because she had gone to a good school, and was surprised to find that she'd actually have to work for something for once, and that she wouldn't just be handed what she wanted.
I tried being honest with her about the fact that I thought she was throwing away a career for a dead end job that she doesn't even enjoy, but she doesn't really listen unless things fit into her little world. *sigh* I don't even know why I talk to her, her whole world view annoys me most of the time.
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