💈My experience of becoming a barber

I started watching videos on how to cut hair and started watching how the guy I used to get haircuts from would cut hair. I honestly thought it was really easy cutting hair. After I went to go buy a pair of clippers from Walmart which I thought was a good way to start of. I started with cutting my brothers hair and I would also cut close friends hair. What I thought about cutting hair was going to be easy wasn't so easy when I actually tried it. I started doing simple cuts first to get use to the machine and how to blend and stuff. When I started off I only had one machine with the gaurds they come with. As months passed I started to go in with the more trendy haircuts at the time and with one machine I would do all the work and I would take me up to 1hr 30 min or 2 hrs to do a good haircut. I would mess up nd would feel like giving up. The one thing that would always happen would be the clippers that I would get would always stop working at a point. So I would be waisting 30$ on machines and for them to cut good I would look at videos to adjust them nd know how to fix them and that's what I did to fix my older machines for a good while more and to leave the haircuts better. After a good year of getting familiar with the haircuts I started charging 5$. With the little money I would make and the money that my dad would let me have at times I bought a t-outliner trimmer which is to outline behind the ear and neck or to do line ups or designs. I also remember that same day I bought a straight edge razor razors and cool care to disinfect the machines I never really knew what I needed when I started off and didn't know where to buy them I would always see barbers use that spray but didn't know where to get it. Well after I figured out where I could get it that's when I saw the prices of the good machines to that are around 100$ but as time went by I still would use the walmart machines and just my t- outliner disinfectant straight razor and I would cut hair outside cause I didn't have no where to cut. As I mentioned it to the barber that cuts my hair he said he had a pair of clippers he didnt use no more and was selling them and said he could sell them to me cheap since I was starting of. I slowly started progressing in my haircuts by the time and the way they would come out. I would get money and would go spend it on buyin more things that would make it easier to cut hair and make them even better. I started cleaning the garage and that's where now I cut hair after a long time of struggling of learning how to cut hair I finally learned and I'm still learning by the new haircuts that are coming out, I also went from 2 hrs to a 35 min hair cut or less there's some people that come back or friends that I already know the hair cut they get and that they like that it takes me about 20 minutes
Or if a friend lets me I tell them to see how fast  I can do the haircut on them and it takes me about 10
min that's how much I progressed over time and I'm also with the same machine the barber sold to me almost 2 years ago and it's worked great like new still I've also bought more things and went from cutting outside to cutting inside my garage and having my little station to cut hair arranged good. Well that's how my expericance was about learning to cut hair. I'm still learning new things and haircuts that come out now it's just to get my license and also open my own shop, but what I learned was that no matter how much you want to give up don't. I've wanted to give up so many times cause of some bad comments I'd get but I still didn't give up and fixed mistakes the clients would say and now I get a lot of good comments about how good I cut hair.

The digital divide

What I believe is that technology won't hold me back because it can help to spread things around. For example everyone uses technology and since it's not really secure and everyone sees what you do why not turn it into a benefit to yourself. As in spreading a word that you cut hair, or selling some thing like products, cloths, toys etc. if you are trying to sell something it would be faster to do it through social media or the technology you use that contains the media to spread word easier. That's a benefit to make some money. Another thing you can do with technology is teach something you like to show others. What I think of technology now is that it can either be to show off something you like doing or something your working on like for me is cutting hair I've been at it for 3 years nd it was rough learning since no one would really know but know that I got way better at it and can share it with others by using technology and as I progress and show off more all the people using technology would be interested in the work I do and would come to me for a haircut. What technology and the media is now is just to get around and spread word or just to share what you want and there's no privacy so it's basically your digital life

We eat social media for breakfast

      Yes, we do eat social media for breakfast. How I feel about it is that over time and the change in technology made us get more into it with the the social media that was created. Also we started to share everything on social media, so now everything we do we tend to share especially in the mornings because that's the beginning of a new day.
     
        The author uses detail in his words and uses them in a way to make the readers understand the topic, We Eat Social Media For Breakfast. This makes the reader understand the way we use social media. The mornings and how much it has changed us over the time. His diction and syntax make me understand that he would never do this thing of sharing what you do in social media following that after he did share and, he said he never was going to do that so he felt the change that was going on. So on he talks about the history about the social medias. So his words and arrangements of words are really understandable of what his point or his message he is trying to put out is.

The authors tone I think would be was he was shocked of some thing he did he him self said he would never do. His attitude then changed to wanting to explain his experience and talk about the evoloution on social media. His thought is that everyone uses social media now even in the very morning meaning that's the first thing we do now instead of eating breakfast as the first thing we did before when social media wasn't so big.

5 Resources💈

1. Watch step by step videos of how to do certain haircuts
2. Get pair of clippers and start of practicing with friends, family members hair
3. Attend a barber school (High school diploma required )http://slobeautycollege.com/
4. Fully complete the barber program
5. Get state barber license 💈

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