Lets talk about some real things here for a minute. You may not know this, but I am not just your everyday run of the mill stripper/blogger/modern American homemaker. I went to college. Thats right. Im educated, mother fuckers. Guess what I am currently doing with my expensive education? Nothing. Because I hate practicing in my field of study. It was great to learn, not where I want to spend the next forty years. I WANT to go to beauty school {like we have covered I am vain} but I can not secure the loan. Here is a heart breaker for some of you adults who put off schooling or may want to go back to school; Salliemae isnt handing out money the way she was ten years ago. I know its sad. Like its our fault the economy crashed? So… here are some things I am learning in the process of trying to get into a field I want to work in. 

1. You need to make friends with your parents because chances are their credit scores are better than yours. 

2. Private colleges are easy to get into because all they care about is your money. 

3. Not all careers require an accredited education. 

Let me school you a little on some things that I have recently learned. In my area there are two very prominent beauty schools. Paul Mitchell and Aveda. Both cost almost twenty thousand dollars for a full cosmetology degree. They are accredited. To go “full time” you have to put forty hours of work in a week. This does not leave much time for work so you will need to take out enough loan money to pay for some of your living expenses as well. Once you graduate from Aveda or PM with 1200 hours of practical study you go and take your state board exam and get licensed.  Then you start paying Salliemae back the massive amount of money that you borrowed from them. We also have a bunch of very small schools here in my town. I found one that is run by Vietnamese people. It has primarily Vietnamese students. It charges 3,500 dollars for a full cosmetology program. Once you graduate with your 1200 hours, you go and take your state board exam and get licensed. 

Are we keeping up here people? More expensive, does not mean better. It can mean better… but it can also mean just more expensive. 

One of my driving points on anything here, kids, is do your research. Dont just trust the person that you are talking to from the school you looked into first. There are other ways around it.