Well here where I live, you have to have 1500 hours of education, and have performed a specific number of services(hair cuts/colors/styles/ nail stuff) in order to be licensed. So I have two days out of every week I'm in a classroom, and then three where I'm workin in a salon attached to the school. So I get a lot of practical experience, and it's a lot like actually having a job.  

It's not what I expected to be doing with my life. I wanted to be a teacher, but four year college isn't financially feasible. Maybe I'll go back to school some day, but with this I can be working in the industry as early as February, whereas before I was working minimum wage in the back of a Gabe's.