Post subject : Advice needed on coping with anxiety
I have posted once explaining somewhat my situation, but maybe not in depth enough for more experienced people to understand my problem.http://www.hairdressingworld.com/hairdressersforum/employment-advice-f526/learning-the-ropes-is-causing-me-stress-t7222.html
As a new person in the profession, I'm struggling to meet the expectations of my salon. I'm older, so do understand things in ways younger apprentices may not, but I'm finding the younger apprentices are far exceeding my talents.
I have been doing people's hair for years - all with encouragement that culminated in me following through with becoming a professional, however, my experience was self taught and fraught with bad habits I'm sure. I'm not finding the salon to be watching me well enough to catch my bad habits in action, and I often am getting more and more anxious as I see I'm not working fast enough, and making mistakes along the way.
As an experienced salon owner, what advice could you give to someone like me who is keen, passionate, talented, but feeling anxious, pressured, and is dropping further behind because of it all?
To be fair, I think my salon is just trying to push me to improve on my own, pressuring me to get results, and they are advising when I ask. When I have a model they do run through a cut first, albeit quickly. I do seem to select good color choices and patterns for highlight work, and they are helping me improve on my ideas.
Yet, putting all the pieces together (consult, preparation, application, finishing) just takes me hours and I can't seem to speed it up! My friends are patient, but I'm not, and I want to be faster, I just can't seem to find my zen and make it happen.
I do get bad feelings from my colleagues (feeling judged and talked about poorly behind my back) but I'm trying to push these out of my mind as paranoia. Granted I'm giving them reason to, so making a circular problem!
Hope these two posts are not totally redundant, but I wasn't sure where I'd find advice in abundance. I like the opinions I've been reading as trust I'll be directed with good ideas!
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missginger
