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\"VETA\u2019S<\/a>VETA\u2019S HAIR ODYSSEY<\/strong><\/p>\n

AMPS: Nice. How long have you been in business now?<\/p>\n

Veta: I\u2019ve been in business since I was 18. I\u2019m 52. I\u2019ve been doing hair going on, this is my 34th year.<\/p>\n

AMPS: How long have you had the shop?<\/p>\n

Veta: I\u2019ve had the business since 1984 because I started out in 1980 and then I opened up my own business in \u201884 in my home. And then after the home I got cancer and I was pregnant with Tyler. I went to god to just bless me in a special way and that\u2019s when one of the stylists came and asked if she could kind of work with me in my shop in my house, and I was okay I can\u2019t have her work in the house, but maybe I could open up a salon. And at the time we didn\u2019t have a nice black salon nowhere and I just wanted to make all people feel welcome. All races, and I think they do.<\/p>\n

AMPS: The building looks nice. It\u2019s always nice. Your husband keeping outside looking great.<\/p>\n

Veta: Thank you, thank you and we keep the costs down you know every week I come and disinfect and clean and we just outside that helps keep a lot of expense down it really does. And I don\u2019t mind it. I don\u2019t mind it because that helps me too if something breaks down that I can be alert and be right on it and then we can fix it forth and I don\u2019t know what god has in store but I\u2019m just tickled, I\u2019m just tickled. I\u2019m just trying to be a good servant and steward at what he\u2019s blessed me doing. You know, it might say Veta\u2019s Hair Odyssey & Nails, but I know that god is the CEO and I\u2019m just the manager. So at the end of the day he does deal with me if I mistreat anybody so it\u2019s really his business. It really is I\u2019m just manager. So therefore I have to treat people right and it\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n

AMPS: What was the hardest thing that you can remember when you first started out? I know it\u2019s been a while.<\/p>\n

Veta: I don\u2019t look at it as a job. I really enjoy it so I just enjoy my profession so I really don\u2019t look at it as a job. And just be mindful, sit down and think about what you want to do before you really start to pursue it. Count the cost because it\u2019s going to cost you money, it\u2019s going to cost you time. It might cost you friendships because there\u2019s a lot of people not going to be going the way you\u2019re going. And get around positive people, get around people that\u2019s trying to go places like you\u2019re trying to go.<\/p>\n

AMPS: Is there any advice of what type of school to go to as far as cosmetology?<\/p>\n

Yes, I would do my research the areas that they\u2019re wanting to specialize in. For me being in the profession as long as I have been, I\u2019m ready to go back and fix what you call them re-education classes and stuff. So therefore I want to fine tune like my clippers and razors and color so that\u2019s why I\u2019m going to target those areas. So I would really tell them to really find out what areas that you want to achieve in the cosmetology area. There\u2019s so many facets you can be. You don\u2019t have to be just a stylist or a barber. So when they really do their homework they can see that there\u2019s a lot of different branches that they can go into. Do your homework is the main thing. Time is money and money is time. The more somebody tells you what you can\u2019t do, do them wrong because that\u2019s what my guidance counsel tells me, she says there\u2019s no money in hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VETA\u2019S HAIR ODYSSEY AMPS: Nice. How long have you been in business now? Veta: I\u2019ve been in business since I was 18. I\u2019m 52. I\u2019ve been doing hair going on, this is my 34th year. AMPS: How long have you had the shop? Veta: I\u2019ve had the business since 1984 because I started out in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}