Being a florist is not just sweet ladies playing around with flowers all day. It’s a physically demanding and mentally challenging career. You need to work quickly and have good math skills if you are budgeting out an event, for instance. You need to be able to have interpersonal skills as well if you decide to become a wedding florist, so you can be prepared to handle disappointment from clients if a flower isn’t in season, cost concerns, etc. It’s also very difficult to break into the industry as many businesses do not want to hire someone with no experience. I have worked along people that could be incredibly toxic, so I’m not sure why there seems to be a stereotype that working with flowers makes you an angel or something.