beauty school dropout

many people will tell you don't judge a book by it's cover and that you should make your own decisions based on your own unbiased observations. i would have to say that i agree! i would say that a good trial period for a new venture would be say, 2 months. 2 months to me sounds like the perfect time frame to base a decision that could, in reality, form the foundation for your career.

when i started school to become a funeral director, there were only 15 of us in the program. not a very big number, especially when you consider the age demographic of the directors who currently occupy the majority of the vocations in this particular field. a more startling statistic is that there are only 3 men in this program (one of which is currently a grave digger... not even joking). as much as there will always be a demand for funeral directors, there aren't too many jumping at the chance to deal with the dead.

school started on september 1st and by september 17th, we were writing our first midterms. when a couple of us got together to study for our first exams (psychology and orientation to funeral services), one of the other girls was already psyching herself out of the course. it had literally been 2 weeks and she already wanted out!

it was as if she had dug her own grave by enrolling in this program and was now trying to punch her way out of her casket which was buried 6 feet below ground (which i know to be an impossibility because i watch mythbusters).

granted she is 22 and is still very, how should i say this, indecisive. but 2 weeks is not enough time to make any sort of rational decision. you need at least 21 days! everyone knows that! when i was 22, i know that i was a tad bit unsure of what i wanted to do with my life (i think i wanted to be either an astronomer or chemist, 2 things that involve math {which i am more than deficient in}), but i knew better then to pay $11,000 for something that i wasn't going to stick with for more than 17 days.

the other girl in my program jokes that now there are more jobs for us. which is a bit disturbing when you think about what we are studying. i won't lie, now that she is out of the program, we actually get some studying done because we don't have debbie downer over there moaning about how she doesn't want to take out her lip ring.

i think frankie avalon said it best when he said you've got the dream, but not the drive. put down your teasin' comb and go back to highschool!