I feel that I have the right to make this post because I have both attended college as well as a "trade school". I attended a small college in Michigan for three years. I've always been one of those people who hates deadlines as well as school work. I like to pick my own time to do things, and I do a lot better under pressure. As a result, I discontinued going to college and went to school to be a cosmetologist. In a lot of cases, going to a "trade school" is looked down upon. What a lot of people don't realize, is that you are earning college credit hours the whole time you are in a "trade school". In one year of cosmetology classes, I earned 40 credit hours that can be transferred to any college. I also get looked down upon for "just being a hairdresser". I am not "just a hairdresser". I am an artist. People are my canvas. I have learned chemistry, the science of electricity, how to balance pH levels, human anatomy. There is a lot that goes in to being a cosmetologist. You have to learn what chemicals react with each other to produce desirable or undesirable results. If a client is taking medications, you must learn which astringents will react poorly with their skin. I am not "just a hairdresser", I am a professional in skin, and nail diseases, a chemist, and an artist. The same thing goes for mechanics. They have to learn exactly how to fix things. They are surgeons of mechanics. You wouldn't go to just any person for brain surgery, just like you wouldn't go to just any person to fix your car or mechanical device.
What I can't stand, is the people who just sit around all day and have minimum wage jobs at a fast food restaurant or something else and say that "they have a hard time getting by". Well, maybe you should have tried to improve yourself.
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