I woke up this morning, tired from last nights 'out with the girls',promising myself never to go out on a Sunday night again, at leastnot when I have a FULL book on Monday. A 'full book' is 15-20haircuts for the day. I'm just starting out in the hairdressingworld, been with my girls for two years now.  Men have juststarted to 'allow', a female to cut their hair.  It's the beginningof the Unisex era, little did I know that it was going to live on!!

I work in a typical Beauty Salon, Anne Maries House of Beauty,in an almost all Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, with 4 otherbeauticians & 1 manicurist. I'm guaranteed $150 a week & 30% oftotal tickets after I doubled my salary, plus tips. Basically, I needto ticket $300 plus an additional $150 to make a $200 pay check.All tips (usually $0.50) are mine.

Not bad for an 18 year old, just venturing out on my own, right?I mean, I've got my own furnished apartment for 25 bucks a week,utilities included. I'm living good, & as long as I don't spend all mymoney 'with the girls' I'll be okay. I figure I can save enough cashto put myself though law school in about four years. That's whenI'll really make something of myself... when I enter law school, Ican't wait!

Hell, with all of the stuff that these families are into in theneighborhood, I should be RICH being their defender & keepingthem out of jail.  My cousin Johnny wants to hire me now - HAHA.

Well, off to work with one heck of a hangover... 1964 is promising tobe a good year.

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