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Posted By:ccarol_s on: 8/7/2010 10:28:00 AM

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ccarol_s
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Should i become a booth renter?
Posted: Saturday, August 07, 2010 10:28:00 AM

I have been with the same commission salon for almost 7 years. On multiple occasions, I asked if I could buy into it. The owner decided he wanted to open a school and named me director of education. He sent me to a school that was 4 hours away from my husband. I took an almost $5000 a year pay cut with the future incentive of being part owner down the road. I returned and he had taken over a school that went very down hill in the past few years. He put me there and I started bringing it back from the dead and making sure state rules were being followed that hadn't been enforced in forever. The students were enjoying the new cleanliness and structure that I brought but not enjoying me personally. I was ok with that because I wasn't there to be their friend. The owner taught a class to the students a couple of weeks ago and discussed why he chose to be a corporation instead of going into partnership. This rubbed me the wrong way. I was then relieved of my duties yesterday with no warning, no previous write ups or anything. I was just told I didn't fit the mold anymore. I was blown away because the very things that he liked about me were the same reasons he dismissed me. I know with taking on this already existing school and its bills put a major strain on him financially. I feel so betrayed.
To top it off I am 6.5 months pregnant and I am terrified. I loved the hours that I worked at the school, 9 to 5 Monday to Friday, but I really was not liking all the responsibility that I had to take on (director of education, manager and instructor). It was too much for one person and it affected me. Especially knowing that the partnership I thought I was working towards was never going to happen now.
Now I am at a major crossroads in my life. I really want the independence of a booth rental, but I am so terrified of it at the same time because it is so foreign to me. I have already had a booth rental salon offer me a chair that is in a great location downtown and I have also had a commission salon tell me that they have heard of my "excellent reputation and are very excited that I would consider joining their team" and want to meet with me.
Can anyone give me some advice. I am so torn and so afraid that the commission salon might not want me after they see I am pregnant. Should I just go ahead and try the booth rental and see if that is a fit?
I am a very driving, goal orientated person and my passion, drive and ambition sometimes gets mislabeled as bitchiness. I don't back talk and fall into the usual cattiness that happens. I keep to myself and don't believe in burning bridges. So i am wondering if now is the time I should try booth rental.

pixanne
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Posted: Monday, August 09, 2010 6:54:46 PM

don't go into booth rental unless you have a clientele!

krysalis
Posts: 30

Posted: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:08:37 PM

I am a booth renter and was a indepedent contractor at another salon. I have worked as a booth rental for 1 1/2 year and thinking about going back to a commission salon, because i decided to go back to school for another profession. It has been really difficult paying rent and going to school and maintaining a clientel with no walkin traffic. Booth renting is great if you have clients and in a salon where if there is a walkin, they are distribute to everyone fairly. I have been in this business for 23 years and really fed up by the way salons are run. That is why i'm back in college.

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