“There were many days when it felt like the sky was falling”... Lee Ji-hyun on why she is leaving the salon

[Financial News] Lee Ji-hyun, a former member of the group Jewelry, has decided to leave the salon where she worked and move to a branch near home because of childcare issues. As her children spent longer periods alone and her daughter was injured and had to go to the hospital by herself, she decided to change her working arrangements.
On the 10th, Lee Ji-hyun shared on Instagram, her social media account, that she had decided what to do about a worry she had been struggling with alone for some time. “I’m writing today to share my news after making a decision about something I’ve been quietly wrestling with on my own,” she said, revealing her decision to change jobs, which she had been considering for some time.
She said she had decided to leave the ○○ Hair Gwacheon Government Complex Station branch, where she had worked as a designer and marketing director, and work at a new salon.
The biggest reason she decided to change jobs was childcare. “If it were up to me, I’d say I’d adjusted to things to some extent and wanted to keep working, but there’s never a quiet moment with the children and their problems, big and small,” Lee Ji-hyun said, explaining that although she wanted to stay at her previous job, she needed to take care of her children.
Lee Ji-hyun, who is raising her two children alone, also spoke about her concerns over not being able to care for them enough while working.
“I was a mother for the first time too—how could I have known? They’re always getting hurt, and the two of them take turns getting sick,” she said. “They’re spending far too much time alone, and more and more of what they eat is delivery food.”
It was a great shock to Lee Ji-hyun when her daughter, after falling and getting hurt badly enough to need four stitches, went to the hospital alone.
“It broke my heart,” Lee Ji-hyun said. “I work so hard for my children, but sometimes I wonder what good it is if I can’t be by their side when they need their mother. There were many days when it felt like the sky was falling.”
Lee Ji-hyun plans to continue working as a hairdresser even after leaving her current salon. “I moved to a branch of another brand five minutes from home,” she said. “I plan to do only model work here.”
Lee Ji-hyun has been raising a son and a daughter on her own since divorcing twice, in 2016 and 2020. She has worked at a salon since obtaining her national hairdresser certification last year.


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