Dilemma over DD's Career Choice

[Kiki105]

My 20 year DD left college with low grades 2 years ago and has been flitting from one office job to another, and doing some occasional bar work. She hates working in an office - I totally get that having worked in offices all my life - and now she wants to train to do lashes from home and build up a beauty business. Here's the problem, I so want to support her idea but her bedroom is far too small to accommodate a beauty bed and impractical for her to take over any room downstairs, plus we have a reactive small dog who doesn't like strangers coming into the house.
She's having a right go at me saying I'm ruining her life, she's miserable, blah, blah, blah because I've said it will be totally impractical. If I had money, I'd get an outhouse for her. I've suggested she goes to clients houses but she doesn't want the added expense of driving everywhere.
How do I reason with a very unreasonable DD like mine. I spend most of my time saying no to her and slamming down on all her wants.
I just hate being the horrible mum all the time.

I wouldn’t allow a commercial business in my house. It’s a residence, not a place for customers to traipse in and out, bothering the neighbors and me.

if my child came to me with a real business plan, with all the budgeting worked out, I would consider offering seed money. That is if the business plan is sound. I wouldn’t just throw money at a bad idea. It’s not even enough to get the training and rent space, she has to advertise, build a client base, and have enough leeway built into her accounting that she doesn’t need to be fully booked at all times to earn a living. If that can’t be true, then it’s not a real career option, it’s a hobby at best or an MLM
at worst.

I know it’s not an explicit mlm, but getting people to take the courses and buy the supplies when there isn’t necessarily enough demand is a problem with these types of things

It’s a hobby job at best and certainly isn’t a career. it’s the kind of job young girls do to see them through uni or some older sahms do to earn a bit of cash. But the market is now saturated.

I’d be saying to her that she won’t be running any kind of business from your house, that your insurance won’t cover it, and that before she even thinks about studying for it she needs to think about the cost. The hire of a space, the public liability insurance, the tools and products, the advertising. It’s not something people generally make money doing unless theyve done it for years.

Most businesses don’t turn a profit for at least the first three years, so she needs to be aware of that.

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Suggest she does a beauty apprenticeship? She can practice on clients there (both the actual work plus social skills etc) and get experienced and knowledge of what is required before she goes freelance. If she can offer more than just lashes, she'll get more customers.

In terms of the immediate issue, I'd ignore the grumping and eye rolling and just state whats possible, sympathise that it's tough, blah blah but reiterate that's the situation and say "I'm sure you'll come up with something..." and then leave her to it.

You can't run a beauty business from a bedroom for Christ's sake! Purely from a hygiene point of view, let alone a professional viewpoint!

If she is serious about the beauty industry then she needs to factor in these points, along with professional indemnity insurance, adequate training etc.