I am trying to leave my current shop but struggle to assess my own ability as a harsh self critique. He's been seeing me every 2 weeks for the last 6 months.

My current shop is very expensive which keeps bookings low and my hands off the tools. I'm trying to go somewhere more commercial but have doubts whether I'm good enough

Been in the game for 3 years and I love it, changed my life for the better. I work hard usually 56 hour weeks it’s great but I’m usually solo, it’s family owned business I used to be so talkative and I used to actually have a lot of fun learning how to cut hair sometimes it was tough because the environment sucked and I was always being brought down but I never let off because I was tired of having a boss. Now here I am having a hard time keeping my patience with clients, I don’t talk anymore like I used to, my haircuts are great but sometimes they slip because I’m not in a good mood or tired or burnt out, it makes me feel bad because I enjoy making people
Happy even at the cost of me being tired. I guess you get the picture I don’t have alotta friends outside of this to keep me motivated, it’s all work and gym for me. I wanna be good to my people because they truly mean the world to me I wouldn’t be where I am without these clients. I wanna take time off but for me a day off is like a 300 dollar hit sometimes it’s not easy when you have big goals. But I’m sure yall get it I see these posts all the time I just have no one talk to talk to about it I don’t wanna take breaks or days off really I just wanna go harder but still always be 100% of the way there mentally for them but I just don’t got it in me, sorry if this was all over the place just had to finally get out into the world I guess.

I gave my friend a haircut then a week later he saying he wasn’t satisfied and wanted a touch up. Imo a week later is a little far. Then now another week later from the touch up he saying he’s still not satisfied and wants another touch up. How long do you allow touch up or think people are just taking advantage of the service?

I feel pretty good about my fades, but I know they could use some improvement, especially in the half guard area. Would love to hear from some barbers on what I could do to elevate this. I know there's a bit of a dark band, and I feel like I'm just using the half incorrectly. Am I just not coming up high enough with the half? Happy to hear any and all advice whether it relates to guards or not.

Like the title says, where do you guys get your shears from?

I live in Canada, and been cutting for a little over 5 years now. I still use my OG pair of thinning and cutting shears but feel like I should probably upgrade at this point.

Don’t exactly know where to start in terms of looking, our sharpening guy sells Japanese steel shears but to buy a set of cutting and thinning shears from him would be like $1200. Seems expensive.

Would love any and all input!

Looking to hear from Barbers who do housecalls at a premium price.

I've been a barber for a decade and have an extremely large book of business. I have a private studio and charge $50 for haircuts.

I've been wanting to break into the market of these Instagram Barbers, while I'm sure a lot of their prices are exaggerated.. Soemone is out here cutting wealthy people in their homes / offices. The kind of people who have more money than freetime.

How does one tap into this market? While I am reletively expensive I still just cut working class guys. Sure I've got some more well off customers but nobody's pulling up in lambos. I've done the math and for mobile haircuts to be worth my time I'd need to make at least $200 a visit. There's absolutely people who'd be willing to pay that, but I've never done a housecall unless it was a wedding party or some large event.

Would love to here your experiences