The director of the hair school I went to called the salon today to get ahold of me – strange, I thought – and ask me to come back and give a little talk on…well, whatever I wanted to talk about really. Something useful to the girls in hair school.

How crazy is that?

It’s very cool imho, although I don’t know what to really build my talk around, because as you may know I have something of a potty mouth. And often endorse dissent among the ranks.

So now I’m trying to figure out some bullet points of topics to cover, this is what I have so far:

• Failing
• The many career paths you can take
• Controlling your emotions will benefit you immensly
• Respect the years other people have put into the industry
• Bend. Be flexible, because it’s survival of the most adaptable, not the strongest
• Clean and sweep
• Punch your pride in the nuts
• What a working relationship is and why it’s better than a personal relationship with your  co-workers
• Middle aged women and older women are your bread and butter if you want to make money
• Getting lazy
• Platform artists

Any suggestions?

What would you tell a class of teenage girls in hairschool?