CPR: Taking a job as a manicurist in California requires more than filling out an application and receiving an offer from an employer. Manicurists have to have at least 400 hours of training, which can cost thousands of dollars. They must also take a written and practical exam.
The government-created barrier to a career in hair care and makeup application is even higher. A cosmetologist needs 1,600 hours of state-approved training. A barber has to have 1,500 hours, according to the California Department of Consumer Affairs.
Meanwhile, a mortgage originator, who must already be a licensed broker, or salesperson, needs only 20 hours of pre-licensing education, an emergency medical technician requires 160 hours, and a crane operator doesn’t have to have any at all, according to the Hoover Institution’s David Crane. Even tree trimmers are compelled to put in more training hours than EMTs, says Dick Carpenter from the Institute of Justice.
Though occupational licenses are purported to be protections for consumers, Crane points out that “studies have consistently found that licensing laws produce no better or safer services for consumers than do less protectionist and less costly alternatives.”
Instead, an occupational license is, as the Institute for Justice has straightforwardly explained, simply “government permission to work in a particular field.” And that permission is harder to come by in California, where more than one in five workers needs a government-issued license to hold a job, than in any other state but one. read more
It’s not a “License”. It’s a tax. I need a permit for my accumulation tanks for my compressed air. TAX. I could go on forever.
If they didn’t have all these educational requirements, then everybody would be paintings people’s fingernails.
Occupational licenses are what you get when established practitioners can’t get away with using their own thugs to “discourage” competition so they buy politicians and get govt thugs do their dirty work. The establishment get richer, the pols get richer, the rest of us get screwed.
1,500 hours of training for a barber is a small price to pay if it prevents one bad haircut.
That’s why I stopped cutting my hair after I retired from the USAF.
Vietvet
Yea well, we all saw your guess the reader photo. LOL LOL and LOL. Sorry pal, I couldn’t resist.
I paint fingernails with aerosol cans ( Krylon mostly, because it’s rust proof)….The overspray is what makes the image more trustworthy and spontaneous…
VV, once again with a couple of funny posts tonight. I’d share them with mrs6pak but she doesn’t have the same sense of humor I have.
Well my barber is Norelco and he gives me the same slick cut I was born with.
🔴 1. It’s the VELVET ROPE of politics that allows people to have or have not.
🔴 2. The gov’t gets MONEY from the onerous rules.
🔴 3. The gov’t provides JOBS to party members to push paperwork through and collect fees (to pay their salary)
🔴 4. Nothing moves faster than a WAIVER through bureaucracy, and that comes from those sweet donations from supporters or party members.
The VELVET ROPE of politics.
@Bad_Brad (at 11:15 pm)- Remember: the haircut, like the OP shirt, was in style
at the time. More importantly, the gals liked it.
P.S. – I’d like to have some of that hair back today, bad haircut or not. Chemo took
most of it away.
🙂
This is all Union driven crap. They hunker down with legislators and make laws for their own benefit. Trades were gutted of good people in WA State because they couldn’t or didn’t want to suck up to entry exams with renewals and testing every three years. It’s a huge waste of time to find out the Law says your hair is too long if it can catch on fire, or a grab bar is not a safety device on a ladder.
I too could tell of the stupidity of state requirements to obtain a contractor’s license in Californicate.
“Chemo took
most of it away.”
That sucks. You’re in my prayers.
PS, they still sell Ocean Pacific on the west coast, so you’re still styling.
“more than one in five workers needs a government-issued license to hold a job”
but they don’t need id to vote right ?
I keep my hair short anymore, I get a buzz cut a couple of times a yr., otherwise I start to look like a hippie and a bum and at age 65 short hair doesn’t bother me like it did 40 yrs. ago. Not horribly short but short enough. It’s what we called a pig shave when my dad was our barber when we were younger. One of my brothers still has longer hair, it makes him look silly especially with a big bald spot. And never get your hair cut at a barber college, you don’t know what kind of haircut you will get.
A buddy of mine has a daughter licensed by MD in one of the beauty
fields involving make up etc.
No hair cutting or treatment involved.
She moved to CA and wasn’t allowed to
use it there. Like many others she has followed the example of the illegals and works under the table and gets
all the Calicare type free stuff.
It would bother me but if they are
allowing it to wetbacks, why not to her?
A large percentage of student loans go to pay exorbitant tuition at beauty and barbering schools. It is big business and the likelihood of graduates paying back the money is minuscule — almost as bad as a women’s studies degree, or worse, political science (I plead the fifth — and I didn’t get a loan, or a job in a related field. Please, don’t let your kids major in PoliSci unless they promise to go on to law school, but business, finance or economics are better pre-law degrees).