The beauty of an apprenticeship
A FORMER Middlesbrough College beauty student has become one of the youngest to go into business on her own - at the tender age of 19.
“Some of my friends think it’s amazing - others think I’m crackers,” said Sarah McConnell, who, through a series of lucky breaks, ended up running her own salon in Yarm just 18 months after completing an apprenticeship with what could now be regarded as one of her rivals.
She is full of praise for the practical grounding an apprenticeship with neighbouring Affinity gave her.
“It was fantastic - I would recommend an apprenticeship to anybody,” she says. “You’re learning things day to day that you just wouldn’t get at college.”
Newly qualified, she was poached to run an anti-ageing clinic in Darlington, before sinking her savings into her own business, Re:nu, which opened within Nouveau Regard hair salon last month off Yarm High Street. Helped along by a bank loan and a small marketing grant from Business Link, she’s already employs a junior to help run reception.
“When I was 16, I never thought I would be here now, but I also knew I wouldn’t be in some backstreet salon painting nails all day.”
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