Training advice

[Pink-pi]

Hi guys,

I done a year NVQ1 hairdressing at a local college a few years ago and left after finding it hard to learn alongside 16 year olds. I since went to work in an office to earn some money and now wanted to get back into hairdressing now I have more funds but wanted some advise on who to train with.
Any advice is much appreciated

Thanks

 

[Pink-pi]

anyone??

 

[Mandita8601]

Can you not return to the college you attended before? You'll find in most salons there's 16 year olds/teenagers that you'll need to work alongside, especially when trying to gain experience. tbh i don't understand why the age group of your classmates stopped you from going for your goals to be a hairdresser

 

[busy-bee]

This is my first posting on this forum, but just wanted to say I think you should go back to college.

I left school and went straight into a salon as a junior training on the job, I loved it but a new owner took over and decided to send us on day release to college. I did one day, hated it and left. Big mistake, I regretted it later.

Im now 34 years old and have applied to go back to college in September this year to do my NVQ 2 properly. I will be working alongside school leavers the same age as my eldest daughter. Yes I fully expect it to be strange at first, but I want to qualify and this is the only way to do it.

At the end of the day age is just a number, we will all be starting from scratch, all doing the same thing and will hopefully all get along and with a bit of luck have a laugh along the way. Everyone will be out of their comfort zone and no doubt the school leavers will feel strange learning alongside adults as well. Its a learning curve and if you want it badly enough you should just bite the bullet and go for it.

 

[NeelieGel]

I agree you just have to make some adjustments to work along side younger students. Were there no younger people in the office job?

i have done a few courses at Vidal Sassoon academy over the years and in all instances fellow students have ranged from around 19 to someone in their 50s. More recently I was a the upper end of the spectrum. Became a sort of mother figure for them and was treated very respectfully by my trainers.

To be honest, if I had some money behind me that is the route I would take again and again. Expensive but wow so worth it.

 

[Pink-pi]

Thanks for the advice. My father owns a barbers which he'd like to pass his position to me..so I wouldn't be doing ladies hair other than going mobile but would like to learn both anyway. I guess I should ignore the age and just get on with it. Will look at local colleges again. I just wanted to see if anyone had gone to independent schools in London etc