It's a no-brainer that the job we choose should be in direct correlation with the lifestyle we desire for ourselves. When I first began this career I knew that I wanted a certain lifestyle: be there for my kids, travel, take off when I want, you know those things. What I didn't know is what area of the beauty industry that I would land in that would create the lifestyle that I wanted.
When I entered the industry I was fascinated with hair extensions. At the time I only knew about sew-ins. It wasn't until I started working for this hair extension salon that dealt with all types of hair extensions that I became familiar with Braidless, Microlinks, tape-ins and i-tips. After I became familiar with these methods the braidiess sew-in which is now the braidless microlinks was my favorite. The braidless method became my area of focus for my business.
As I begin to focus on being a microlink artist or shall I say a Braidless Microlink artist, my business began to grow in numbers tremendously.
Through the years as a braidless Microlink artist I've been able to:
Decrease my work days from a 5 day workweek to a 3 to 3.5 day workweek
Travel with my son with his basketball and attend almost every game or tournament while he was growing up.
Attend many school events for my kids.
Take 2 week vacation multiple times a year.
Take off the entire Christmas break with kids.
Take a vacation once every quarter.
I can work on my business and not always in it.
Started my own online academy to teach beauty pros braidless and business.
Started my own hair bonnet line (although ours aren't called bonnets).
Pay off over 30k of debt in a little over 3 years .
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