A realization about hair stylists:

They're mostly precarious workers, who rent out a spot from the salon or work for commission.

So, they have high income volatility, and probably experience that same damn "independent contractor" bullshit like everyone else nowadays.

Like a friend of mine who's a hair stylist said, "There's a reason that you don't see many women in their forties on up in that line of work."

(That is, they burn out, including through having to stand all day like right in the same space.)

It was interesting, too, to talk to my friend who's a hair stylist, since she's thinking of changing her line of work.

"I really feel weird saying this," she was like, "But I'm worth more."

She said that a new guy came into the salon to work, and he was telling her how good she was... 

I also wonder if it's the general labor stuff that's been floating around, that she's encountered and absorbed.