There are many reasons that people will choose to take nail technician courses and become nail technicians.  For me it was an opportunity to provide more for my family and my children then i could with the education that i had received.  I knew college wasn’t for me and working in retail was not providing the income that i desired.  I looked at many different trade schools, and had a few friends who were going to be hair dressers.  I think the main reason that i decided to go get licensed and get a nail technician job was because i wanted to be a little bit different than my friends in what they were doing and I knew that i wanted to do something working with my hands.

Your decision may be different, or you may not have made a decision about whether you want to be a nail technician or not yet.  I have given you my reasons, so now i am going to lay out a few of the pros and cons of becoming a nail technician so you can decide for yourself whether you want to pursue the career.

I will start off with a few of the “pros” as i see them.  As a nail technician, you have the ability to work for yourself.  With a specialized skill like nails, you can work for any salon you want, you can rent space in a salon, or if you can afford the start up cost you can even create nail technician jobs for others by having your own salon.  I have seen a rising trend in concierge or mobile nail techs.  These mobile nail technicians may not even have a salon, they can work from anywhere because they will pack a mobile nail studio into their car.  With a portable nail table, a lamp and their tools, they are on the go and on to various clients homes to pamper them with fabulous nail service in style.

Another positive result of being a nail technician is that you can set your own rates and really control your future career.  Being a licensed nail tech gives you the ability to reach and stretch your own limits outside of what some other job would limit you with.  If you want to do different types of nails, you have the freedom to go get more training or practice on your own.  You get to choose what to charge your clients, and how you want to get more clients as well.  Nail tech’s set their own hours and really do as they please when it comes to growing their career.

Now on the flip side, getting your nail technician license is a lot of work in most places.  In certain parts of Europe, you may be able to take fewer classes, or have a greater flexibility with where you learn than in the US.  In the United states, you are regulated by your state’s board of cosmetology… usually.  Most states have a minimum of 300 class hours, with many more being in the 1200 hr range.  You will have to study nail anatomy and learn quite a bit about sanitation, chemical safety, and hygine on top of your regular nail art and nail treatment training.  This is hard work, but you know what they say, anything worth doing always is.

Now another thing that you may see as a negative is that being a nail technician means you have to have a certain amount of self discipline.  I outlined all the freedom’s that you have above, which are really great, but if you really want to succeed as a nail technician, you are going to have to grow constantly and learn how to manage clients, manage your time, and manage your books.  These things will all take alot of work, but before you know it could be old hat if you focus at it.

Now there are quite a few other things to keep in mind, like working with different people every day could be exciting or maybe stressful.  if you have clients that like to talk, that may be your favorite thing, or you may just want them to be quite for just a bit.  Maybe you don’t like working with chemicals, or hate the smell of acrylic nails and the like.  I didn’t really cover these because you can solve these issues relatively easily, change the environment of your salon to encourage quite or talking, work with only natural nails if you don’t like the chemicals.

Now I hope that you can see the various pros and cons of becoming licensed nail technician and getting a nail technician job.  I have had a great career as a nail tech, but that’s because it has worked for me.  You will only know what works for you after trying things out.

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