I have been hating my job for about a year. I am a secretary. Recently, I started to do something about it. I started teaching piano and started a band. The piano lessons bring in pretty good money, not great. And the band is my life. My goal was to get enough students to be able to quit my secretary job. However, out of the blue I got another secretarial job offer for almost twice my current salary. Should I take it? Or should I stick with my original plan?
for now you can take the job, then carry on with the original plan.
The difference is that to match the new money you might have to take more students in.
It also depends on how much you value money versus your own time.
Personally I couldn’t care less about the money and so long as I have enough money to cover the essentials then I value my own time the most precious thing in the world, but we are all different and most people love their cars and their clothes and their restaurants etc etc so each to his own.
You sound like you’d know what to do with your own time, however… are the other band members in it only part time? If so then you want to consider it carefully.
I was in a band and hated to depend on them for my own life. You need to find the right people.
December 28th, 2009 at 9:04 am
what will make you happiest? And only you can answer that one.
but Chase the dream if you dont have alot of outside responsibilities ie kids and can handle the risk.
You will always regret you didnt and then you can always go work for "THE MAN" later on.
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December 28th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Sorry Wonderbar but music lesson and a band just ain’t gonna pay the bills. Working as a secretary are you r life and the music stuff is a hobbie or side job.
Take the new secretary job and get on with your life. Use your spare time to work on your band and teach music here and there. If the band takes off you can quit your job and play that funky music.
But that opportunity is short-lived and rare that you make it. Being a secretary could lead you to bigger things in a corporation as a corporate secretary making in the $40,000 to $60,000 salary range.
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December 28th, 2009 at 10:33 am
for now you can take the job, then carry on with the original plan.
The difference is that to match the new money you might have to take more students in.
It also depends on how much you value money versus your own time.
Personally I couldn’t care less about the money and so long as I have enough money to cover the essentials then I value my own time the most precious thing in the world, but we are all different and most people love their cars and their clothes and their restaurants etc etc so each to his own.
You sound like you’d know what to do with your own time, however… are the other band members in it only part time? If so then you want to consider it carefully.
I was in a band and hated to depend on them for my own life. You need to find the right people.
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December 28th, 2009 at 10:39 am
I can’t agree with Panama. You very well could live off of teaching piano, especially if you associate yourself with a local music store or the local school system. It is possible to teach piano full time, and at the typical rate of $20 for a half hour lesson, you’d be rolling.
Whatever you do, don’t just do it for the money. I’ve never understood that. Why be a slave to a job you hate for eight hours a day, just to go home and maybe have a little fun for four or five hours, and then go to sleep??? What kind of a life is that??? You couldn’t pay me enough.
This is your life. Do what you love and make it pay the bills at the same time.
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