Personal Narrative: Choosing Cosmetology

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It was my senior year of high school and my second year of cosmetology at Evit when I realized that cosmetology wasn't for me. I was no longer enjoying it . I hated going there, the four hours I was there seemed like days. I wanted to quite. I had even talked to one of the councilors' there about switching programs, but I was already half way on finishing cosmetology and if I had giving up then I would have wasted a year. A part me didn't want to just not finish it, I wanted to feel like I completed something other than high school and I didn't want t feel like I just wasted my time. I also thought that if I didn't finish cosmetology then, then not finishing things would become easy for me.So I decided I would finish it and get my cosmetology

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