It didn’t take Miracle Workman long to realize that college wasn’t for her.
By the end of her first semester at Mat-Su College, a small school in Palmer, Alaska, Workman decided she couldn’t stomach the time, or loans, it would take to get her associate’s degree.
So, in December 2013, as Workman, then 18, waited for a sign from the universe to help her choose a career, she returned to her high school job as a hostess at a pizzeria in her hometown of Wasilla.
Inspiration struck just a few months later in an unlikely place: a plastic surgeon’s office 3,000 miles from home. Workman and her now-husband, Tim Workman, were visiting his mom in Scottsdale, Arizona and his mom surprised him with a laser treatment to help with his acne.
“This esthetician walked into the room, and she was so calm and confident explaining the procedure, and then handling the equipment, I just remember thinking, ‘Whatever this is, I love it, I want to do this,’” Workman, now 28, tells CNBC Make It.
Fast-forward almost a decade later, and Workman has spun her interest in skin care into a six-figure career: She owns Studio Sol, a hair salon and esthetic studio in Wasilla, and is on track to earn $180,000 this year from her work as an esthetician. Here’s how she did it:
Becoming an esthetician
As soon as she returned home, Workman googled esthetician schools near Palmer and Wasilla.
The requirements to become an esthetician are rigorous: In Alaska, you have to complete at least 350 hours in a government-approved course of study and pass two exams to obtain an esthetician license. Other states, like New York, require upwards of 600 hours.
In March 2015, Workman started taking classes at the MetrOasis Training Center in Anchorage, about an hour’s drive from her apartment. For 10 weeks, she went to classes Monday through Friday and worked weekends at the pizzeria.
“It was gritty, but I loved all of my classes, so it never felt like work,” she says.
Workman took courses in makeup, hair…
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