#jaredimperio

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I feel like I used to be more fun and outgoing, but whenever I moved from my hometown I just kind of got put into a little box by myself. I was out of my comfort zone. Instead of trying meet new people and try new things I just kinda kept to myself. I didn’t really make any friends while I was in cosmetology school. Like I had friends that I would talk to during school, but now that I’m out of school we don’t really talk or hang out… so I don’t really have a social life. Now whenever I’m in social situations I’m just kind of stand-offish and awkward and it’s hard to open up and be myself. Am I just introverted now? Maybe I’ve always been introverted, it’s just I got comfortable around my old friends and I could just be completely open and myself around them. 

Now more about my job. Okay. I’m an apprentice hairdresser at a salon here in Lexington. I love my job. I love the people, I really do. I love the owner and her style of management. I love the clients. I just don’t really  click with the people I work with and we have nothing in common. I feel bad for planning on moving to Louisville and leaving my job behind because I really do like everyone there. I just don’t think that I fit in. 

Whenever I’m at work, all of the other hairstylists are all crazy and make people laugh and my boss keeps telling me to show more personality… but I feel like I am. At least I feel like I’m being myself when I’m at work with the people I work with.  Most of my coworkers are a lot older than me, and there’s one that’s my age but we don’t really have anything in common. I  think different people bring out different parts of your personality and I just don’t feel like I ‘click’ with my co-workers to be that way. Does that make sense? Like I’ve had friends in the past that I can be a complete idiot around and some friends that I mainly talk to about serious stuff. I’m being myself all the time, it’s just that each person brings out a different part of me. I don’t know.

I guess I feel weird because I don’t really have any friends that I hang out with regularly, which is new for me. My whole life I’ve always had friends that I would see everyday and talk to constantly, and I just don’t have that anymore. Sure, I have friends, but none that I see / talk to everyday. It’s just weird. Now that me and my boyfriend are thinking about moving to Louisville, hopefully I can start to have more of a social life again and find a salon that I really like.

And if anyone was wondering… we’re wanting to move to Louisville for a lot of reasons. We actually wanted to move there instead of Lexington in the first place. Louisville has more stuff to do, it’s about an hour and 45 minutes closer to our hometown, apartments are cheaper, Kyle has family there, we know more people in Louisville, and I think I would have an easier time building up a clientele in Louisville. And now me and Kyle are both out of school so nothing is holding us back from moving. We just have to find jobs and an apartment and hopefully we can move sometime in March or April. I guess the next couple of months will be stressful but hopefully everything works out.