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Ever
since she was a small girl Amy Hill had wanted to be a hairdresser
- and now with a young daughter of her own she is keener than ever
to ensure that her career dream comes true.
Amy
took a year off after leaving school and having her daughter, but
last September she enrolled on a two-year hairdressing course.
"Going
back to college was a bit difficult at first, but now I've got my
mum and my sister helping out on the days I'm at college," says
Amy, from Longlevens, Gloucester.
The
tutors are really good listeners, and if you've got problems
they will talk to you. They made it easier to go back.
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Amy
is kept busy in the college hairdressing salon and fits her written
work around her daughter, usually working when the little girl has
gone to bed for the night.
Although
it's a juggling act, she wants to make sure that she gets her qualifications.
Ultimately
Amy's ambition is to set up her own business as a mobile hairdresser
which will allow her to support herself and her daughter.
She
is full of praise for her course tutors, who are always on hand
with lots of support and encouragement.
"The
tutors are really good listeners, and if you've got problems they
will talk to you. They made it easier to go back."
And
she was happy to find that attitudes at college were very different
to those she had experienced at school.
"Everyone
gets on with everyone at college. At school there is always a bully
and someone is always getting picked on, but at college everyone
is much more grown-up about it.
"College
has been a totally different experience to school. School wasn't
where I wanted to be."
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