A Lifestyle Built on Sharing, Learning, and Growing

I don’t know but a solid keyboard has always motivated me to write but also made me write faster than a keyboard from my own laptop. Maybe it’s the novelty that I craved but hey, I am finally reuniting with it and would certainly bring this everywhere I am going now; so next time I crave that novelty, I can easily switch.

So, today I’d love to talk about my journey back to online tutoring. For as long as I remember, teaching and coaching others has always been my way of channeling stress. It’s probably odd, I know but I’d go crazy if don’t share tidbits of things I learn to a person or more than a person.

The last time I taught a group of people was around seven years ago, when I tutored kids who study at an international school. To be honest, teaching kids wasn’t really my thing but because I needed extra money at the time, I took the job. From that simple gig I had back in college, it taught me patience but also to never ever teach kids ever again. Long story short, because I had a good offer and different job that pays me better, I quit that job and moved on to another thing.

Since then, I never really thought about teaching/coaching anybody or making it a profession. Until about a couple months ago, a friend of mine wanted some help with interview and such. It wasn’t formal coaching and teaching; it was more like a hobby than a job. I was happily helping my friend, and I had doubts about my ability to teach.

The idea came back again around 2 months ago because I was stressed and one of the healthy ways to distress me was teaching others or doing social causes. I find that energizes me knowing that I can share my knowledge but also learn something new in return. In fact, I told my friend that I would do it for free if I had to but he advised me to charge a small fee for it.

Typically, when I don’t charge a small fee that won’t last too long. But now, that it is paid, I have everything fully customized and ran like a business model. At first, I didn’t think I’d have students but apparently, I got 8 students and some people missed out on my announcements that they are waiting for the next session to start.

Since I don’t really like too long of a commitment and would rather work within a couple of weeks at most, I made the class have a sweet spot of 6 weeks with T&C that they can schedule/book a private session with me whenever they need it.

I am happy doing it and that has given me some time to destress whenever I feel too stressed about work or life in general. Although the downside of that is basically, I have to manage my time carefully but as long as I am happy doing it, actually it isn’t such a bad deal.