The Swedish Paradox

Every time I used to get a hair cut my mom used to always sing a little bit of that old song "get a haircut and get a real job". Well I recently bit the bullet and finally went to the barber(well, stylist) in Stockholm and had the most expensive haircut in my life - frickin $40 bucks! Which is basically par for the course for any haircut here. I was almost semi-excited at the idea purely cuz I've secretly wished to buy a nice $50 haircut, which I've heard can be really worth it when your hair starts growing out - which mine has a tendency to do. And let me tell you, I was severely underwhelmed (which is a word, I looked it up - its one of those things I learned in my school). 40 frickin bucks for a shampoo and a hair cut. That probably will be my first and last in Sweden.

It got me thinking though - if you need a haircut to get a job, but a haircut costs so much, how would a homeless person ever expect to get enough money to get a haircut and get a real job? More perplexing is that I don't see many homeless people, and what's more, those that I do see don't seem to have extremely long hair. Thus, the Swedish Paradox. Hopefully my haircut will lead me to a job, as I really need to step up my efforts in that area. If any person in the venture capital or biotech fields is looking for a person with both business and science experience and an expensive haircut, you've found your man. Call me.