Typical Monday
It's not a great day, go figure. It took forever to get to sleep last night because I started stressing about money. Am I being selfish moving back to the east coast? We are probably going to blow through all our savings before we start making enough teaching to fully support ourselves. It will take a couple years to build up but once it gets there it will be SO worth it. I know that. But in the meantime, until we get there, will we really be happier? Are we going to have to work crappy jobs we hate for a couple years? Probably. Unless the college classes pan out. The gigs will always be an extra thing, we are both too obscure niche to get regular steady gigs that pay. So it all really comes down to the teaching. The private lessons will be our main bread and butter and the hopeful college will just be jam. But the private is going to take a while. And I'm finally stressing about that.
I emailed a couple band directors in Glastonbury who I was close with before and one of them said she was forwarding my email to other teachers, yay! So, I'm back in the game. Not sure about Daryl though, I included his contact info so if they want percussion and she did forward it, looks like it's promising.
I know I shouldn't worry. I still have a great community back there and support system. And although my old teacher won't throw anything my way, his will.
On top of all the stress I'm breaking today. Getting a cold on top of crazy bad cramps. It's all crashing down on me and I just want to hide under a blanket. The weekend was really fun with the house party gig and the concert yesterday but once I started thinking future and how much we're going to make in the next 3 months vs. how much we are going to spend it got really scary.
Also, I think in my head, I figured I would get 5-6 students back, maybe a couple more. But it looks like I might just get 2. I could be wrong, and it's selfish to think they should come back to me, I just thought that more would, that's all. I emailed all the ones I had the year I left and the responses back have been weird. A couple said they would need to discuss it with their kids but they really liked the new teacher (which is awesome!) but several didn't even address it, they just said they were happy I was moving back. What? Does that mean?
I know there will always be new students, but I didn't get a lot of new ones or inquiries in the last year I was there after leaving M&A. I don't know if that was just because I was teaching out of Hartford or because I no longer had the store as a feeder. I will have to work on my marketing strategy when I get back, that's for sure. We'll still have Middletown, it never built up so much while I was there that I didn't have spots or needed to open a new day, but I do think the program has grown a ton. We only need 12 hours a week each to get by there. That could take a while to do, but that's also considering just that income. If we even got 2-3 hours outside of the store that would drastically reduce that number.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! That's how I feel.
I emailed a couple band directors in Glastonbury who I was close with before and one of them said she was forwarding my email to other teachers, yay! So, I'm back in the game. Not sure about Daryl though, I included his contact info so if they want percussion and she did forward it, looks like it's promising.
I know I shouldn't worry. I still have a great community back there and support system. And although my old teacher won't throw anything my way, his will.
On top of all the stress I'm breaking today. Getting a cold on top of crazy bad cramps. It's all crashing down on me and I just want to hide under a blanket. The weekend was really fun with the house party gig and the concert yesterday but once I started thinking future and how much we're going to make in the next 3 months vs. how much we are going to spend it got really scary.
Also, I think in my head, I figured I would get 5-6 students back, maybe a couple more. But it looks like I might just get 2. I could be wrong, and it's selfish to think they should come back to me, I just thought that more would, that's all. I emailed all the ones I had the year I left and the responses back have been weird. A couple said they would need to discuss it with their kids but they really liked the new teacher (which is awesome!) but several didn't even address it, they just said they were happy I was moving back. What? Does that mean?
I know there will always be new students, but I didn't get a lot of new ones or inquiries in the last year I was there after leaving M&A. I don't know if that was just because I was teaching out of Hartford or because I no longer had the store as a feeder. I will have to work on my marketing strategy when I get back, that's for sure. We'll still have Middletown, it never built up so much while I was there that I didn't have spots or needed to open a new day, but I do think the program has grown a ton. We only need 12 hours a week each to get by there. That could take a while to do, but that's also considering just that income. If we even got 2-3 hours outside of the store that would drastically reduce that number.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! That's how I feel.