October 2024, Q & A

An Esty’s First Year Journey: October

September 30, 2024 | by LNE Magazine

This month, Sofia shares her thoughts on an issue all estys face at some point in their career: time management.

How do you manage a full schedule, between work and school?

A lot of coffee and tea go along with my time management! I use an elaborate planner with notifications, and many alarms set throughout the day so I don’t forget my tasks at hand. Setting aside certain hours for studying and certain hours for work has helped me learn to better manage my time.

Currently, I am finishing my nursing school applications and volunteering, as well as an internship shadowing an OB/GYN and nurse practitioner in a private women’s health clinic.

“I’m still trying to finish my mobile beauty camper, and I am practicing facials, lash lifts, and makeup on friends and family.”

Since those who work in esthetics and skincare tend to have ebbs and flows in workload, how do you utilize any downtime that arises?

Well, I’m still trying to finish my mobile beauty camper, and I am practicing facials, lash lifts, and makeup on friends and family.

As a young esty just starting out, how do you plan to market/brand yourself to stay booked?

I think the best way is social media. Once my mobile beauty camper is up and running, I plan to reach out to other esthetician creators and people I went to esthetics school with in hopes of promoting each other’s content. Plus, I will use portfolio photos to hopefully grow a social media presence.

Do you prefer the flexibility of handling your own schedule, or do you think you might want the structure of working in-house in the future?

At this point, I need to manage my own schedule because school takes the majority of my time. In the future, trying to manage all the different aspects of my schedule at once might be too difficult, so I may prefer working in an established business.

What is your ideal vision of work/life balance?

As of now, it is important that I have weekends off and time for a social life. Down the road when I have a family, ideally, I would work part-time, maybe three or four days a week.