Flying Crane
Sr. Grandmaster
I realize this is an old thread, but it just got necromanced.How low??? OK, Here's something I just came across. The local Mc Dojo in my neighborhood strip mall was suddenly vacant, its store front empty. No mats, no posters, no more five-foot tall plastic trophies, and no more hoards of kiddie black belts swarming into the sandwich shop next door when I'm trying to have a nice quiet lunch. And not even a note in the window explaining what had happened. Broke? Moved? Busted for dealing drugs? Who knows! So I went on line and checked out their web site. Sorry, I got no answers as to why they were closed, but I did find this.
Apparently they specialized in birthday, holiday and special occasion parties, including sleep-overs. The magician is out of town? Can't book a clown for your kiddie's party? Well, you can hire one of their crack team of blackbelts to fill the occasion!!! And kids think clowns are scary.
Personally, I can't think of a better way to dignify the considerable time many of us have spent developing our skills than to host kiddie parties and entertain a couple of dozen screaming tykes all juiced up on cake and ice cream. Good Lord! Maybe the school didn't go broke. Maybe all the instructors just killed themselves.
Yesterday I saw a job posting for martial arts instructor. It is in the Bay Area (San Francisco) and is too far from me to make sense, so I won’t be applying. Maybe they will eventually expand into the Sacramento area.
At any rate, there appears to be a company that offers after school music and movement instruction to kids. Looks like they are a contractor who comes into the school campus after class hours to provide the instruction. Gotta be good with kids. The hours are low, 1-2 hours per afternoon, but the advertised pay is $80-100 per hour. Well ok, at 10 hours a week, $100 per hour, that comes to $4000 per month. Yah know, for that, I think I could learn to like teaching kids…