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Studying hairdressing? What course of education is better? Fast track or apprenticeship trained?

I did my apprenticeship, back then it was a four year long training program and paid no more than $110 dollars a week, very tough to live on in your teenage partying years. Nowadays you can complete your apprenticeship in three years, or even two and a half if you do a short course in pre-apprenticeship. Or of course there is the option of fast tracking and studying full time to gain the qualification within 9 months or so and be paid qualified wages at the end of the term. Beats the $240 dollars a week roughly what a junior would be paid now. Then again a fast track program may set you back quite a few thousand dollars initally to get it going.

Which way is the best one? What is your view.