Hummbled Part 1

April 29th 2011 I started my drive by myself from NYC to LA it took me 3 1/2 days with 2 small dogs and 2 cats in a truck with everything I own and towing my car behind. It SUCKED!!! The weather was scary at times, tornadoes were crazy that year and the things I saw were hart breaking and all I could hope for was the people survived the devastation. The trip was costing me a lot more in gas than I thought and I was now living off savings and the move was about to take a BIG chunk of it. OH and did I mention I was basically moving back to LA without a job??? I did interview a few months prior at a few places so I felt pretty sure I would be ok...............I'll speak more on that down the line. Stressed every time I had to get gas, stressed from the boredom of just driving though miles of NOTHING and just wanting to get there!!! I get there I am beat and it's HOT as Hell!!! I pass out for a few hours get up bug the crap outta a friend to get his butt over to my place so we can unload in 100 degree weather!!! Yep it sucked!!! But I got it all done with little damage to myself and my stuff :) So now I want to take the month of May off and just chill, I mean for the past 4 1/2 years I busted my ass building a great book with amazing clients.................yea trust when I type this I kind of wanna cry!! So my plan is chill May and one of the jobs that I interviewed with that sounded like the PERFECT job would be hiring in June.............HAHAHAHAHAHAHA well once my bank account started purging from getting my car switched and all the moving expenses I was like Oh no I need to work..........so I get in-touch with the "Perfect" job and they have pushed back till Aug...........SHIT!!!!  This is when I reflect on my job in NYC and all the clients I had that were crazy loyal to me, and the health insurance I gave up that the salon paid half, and the 3 week paid vacation I also had...........Yep! Oh and lets just say I made really Good money to put the cherry on top!!! So WHY did I leave that??????? Well truth be told my job wasn't perfect and living in NY can be depressing and hard as Hell with all the crazy weather and it is not cheap to live there so a big chunk of that great money I made was all spent on living and you tend to live to work not work to live so my life was my job and that gets a bit old. I think the biggest thing was realizing that my job was my life and that wouldn't have been a bad thing if I thought I had more of a future in the company and at first it looked like I would but a few years into it I realized it wasn't for me, I felt I was told what they felt like they needed to tell me to keep me happy but bottom line the way they ran the salon wasn't how I would like to represent myself if I did become a bigger part. So I had some thinking to do about where did I want to be in 10 years...........And the thought of growing old in NY was not cute! And as much as people don't want to admit it the beauty industry is a ageists business unless you can bring a huge book with you and make that salon a ton of money they aren't too interested and when you move cross country guess what your clients don't commute that far!!!! So it was like "ok I still look good for my age and I build up clients pretty fast so I need to get a move on" So that's what I did I moved.

More to come on where my life has taken me in my career.......