? Industry groups are speculating, will wait another month or two, the training industry can resume classes? Or two months are not yet possible, may have to continue to wait, to April, have been waiting for three months, how much longer to wait? I've heard that a district government unit went out and posted "no business" notices in all the organizations!
In the end, due to family pressure, rent pressure, my self-confidence has dropped dramatically, etc., I chose to suspend business although it is suspended, but I do not know if it will be resumed. But no matter what, 4 months later, it's a done deal.
Today encountered a bad thing, just by the way to recall this period of aggravation it!
? Encountered the TA who took advantage of the fire
? Time to pull back to the end of April, when it comes to closure, surely the first to do the liquidation, at that time, the parents of the students were given a few choices, A. Teacher to the door / to the teacher's home, the remaining hours of study, B. Switch to the purchase of books / musical instruments, C. return the remaining hours of study.
In dealing with this matter, I consider myself a very conscientious person, how much money is left in the student's tuition, how much money will be returned, without deducting miscellaneous fees. The reason is that I feel that if I treat others with sincerity, they will also treat me with sincerity. Besides, I don't lack the money, why should I deduct the miscellaneous fees? And, for so many years, I'm very grateful for the support of the students' parents, and we've all become friends.
But I can't imagine that I'll ever run into a TA who wants to take advantage of me, and I'm really angry and speechless. Because this year's New Year's Eve, you have to give birth to a baby on maternity leave, for a piano store without a receptionist, more worried about, is to remind the payment of this, because it does need to have a person to follow up the service. Therefore, deliberately at the end of 2019, held a large debriefing performance, and do the preferential activities, try to pre-collection of tuition, set a little longer, so that I finished maternity leave, and then do the tracking service, on the one hand, you can give concessions to the students, on the other hand, you can reduce their own workload.
As a result, this year, the epidemic happened, taking into account the care of three children, under no circumstances, choose to close.
The total amount of the remaining lesson fee = the number of remaining lessons x the preferential unit price at the time of payment
That is, the original price of 120 yuan, after enjoying the discount, the preferential price of 100 yuan, to the time of the refund, if there is 1 lesson left, the refund is certainly refund 100 yuan, because the receipt of only 100 yuan, not 120 yuan. There's nothing wrong with that description, right?
As a result, the TA, who wanted to take advantage of the situation, wanted me to refund $120 a session to the TA, who wanted to take advantage of the situation. No matter how patiently I explained how the remaining total was calculated, the TA said I had no integrity! Really swooned! The first time I met such a person, count me unlucky, anyway, should be refunded, I have refunded, I can afford the conscience of heaven and earth!
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? Continue to choose to learn with me not many students, and I have to take care of three children, some want to continue to learn the piano with me students, the time can not be scheduled, I have recommended the piano another teacher to teach, mainly taking into account the teacher, to raise two children, but also very difficult. Before closing, she also said that in the future, single-mindedly in my piano row, and strive to develop and grow, I heard at the time, very touched, like the left and right hands are full of power feeling! But now that she has finished her studies, all the teachers in the piano shop are "unemployed", and I feel sorry for them. In the choice of students, I try to retain, so that teachers still have income, but the choice is not in my hands, I can only do my best.
From May to July, the students returned to school one by one, and things started to go back to normal. However, the school asked parents to sign a "no students to training institutions" commitment, the seriousness of the epidemic, no one dare to take responsibility, indeed, our students, are the flowers of the motherland, but also understandable. The access to the various districts, there are strict control, wearing masks, disinfection, etc., which is the biggest trouble point of door-to-door teaching.
Since teaching at the piano store, I've been waiting for students to come over for lessons, and it's been very relaxing because I don't have to keep running around for lessons.
But home schooling is the complete opposite - each student is from a different family, and each lesson involves a lot of traveling, even if the students live in the neighborhood.
For example, from home, before arriving at the home of student A, you need to find a parking space, park, send a message to inform the parents, and then the student walks to the door of the neighborhood waiting for me to "pick up" me to her house. In other words, I have to drive to the neighborhood of student B's home, find a parking space, have the student come down to pick me up, and then proceed to the next student.......
In fact, this kind of running time is enough to arrange for one more lesson, and a lesson at the door now is equivalent to two lessons at the piano store in the past, which is a lot of time. In addition to time-consuming, but also energy-consuming, because in addition to communicating with students and parents, but also to deal with the neighborhood janitor.
Before the summer vacation, the experience of 2 days a week, feel nothing, after all, only arranged 2 days a week of classes, tired of running around for 2 days. But when it comes to summer vacation, it's a "killer"!
Being mad
This year's examination, as usual, arranged at the end of August, affected by the epidemic, the course is a few months later than in previous years, only to start the class, but the examination has not been delayed, my students learned the level of the higher, and the summer vacation to improve the piano skills, is a good opportunity for students to bend the road to overtake the car, so most of the students are choosing to increase the frequency of lessons in the summer vacation, there are students a week, three lessons, there are students a week, a week, a week, a week, a week, a week, a week, a week, a week, a week, a week, a week, a week, a month. Some students take three lessons a week, and some take two lessons a week. In other words, I have a schedule that has lessons every day, about two to six lessons per day.
Comparing the summer vacation to the pre-summer vacation, it is three times the "workload", although the number of classes is not three times the relationship, but the time is three times the ratio. In one neighborhood, I entered at least 3 days a week, and on 2 of those days, I entered twice a day, and it was as if I had become the "owner" of the neighborhood. Even if I don't attend classes in this neighborhood, when I pass by this neighborhood, I will nod my head and smile at the gatekeeper there as a way of saying hello. The guards there are only three people on duty, I appear so often, they at least recognize me, right?
This year, affected by the epidemic, the piano examination is online examination, that is, the students hand in the performance video to the examination center, it can be. In order to be on the safe side, all with the students to plan ahead of the deadline, so that there is free time to cope with uncontrollable factors.
Due to proper scheduling, everything is done by August 23rd, with the intention of starting on August 24th and giving myself a summer vacation. Because, after five consecutive weeks of running around and being busy with classes, I didn't have time to supervise my oldest's summer homework, and it's time to take care of my own children while I finish my students' exams!
In these 5 weeks, probably because of the reason of labor, there are a lot of thoughts in my mind, there are positive and negative, but more often than not, the negative emotions dominated, probably because of the change of role identity, or maybe it is the inner unwillingness to want to "get out of the circle", but the current situation, and it is impossible to The fact is that the company's business is not a business, but it is a business, and it's a business.
As for the change of identity role, before the boss, like to command others. Now, but even into the door of the neighborhood, are asked by the doorman, very distrustful look, let me very upset, although I wear more ordinary clothes, sometimes driving an electric car in, not like what the tycoon and so on, but I look like a good person ah, not to be blocked in a hundred ways ah! And the most puzzling thing is that I have almost every day into the same neighborhood, the guards are still blocking the way, really very upset.
Since the summer school time, usually parents are at work, students at home, if I can go to the student's home, it saves the student walking and I wait for the student's time, and the parents do not have to worry about the "in the end, the child received the teacher did not?
It's a good thing that I can go to the student's home.
Sometimes, on days when there are more classes, I have to take my baby with me, who is still breastfeeding, and I don't feel like taking care of the janitorial staff's questions when the weather is so hot in the summer when he's only five months old.
The night before the end of the summer program, and go into this particular neighborhood, usually drive an electric car into the door, parked near the door, this night but I had to park the electric car outside. I was very upset, so I theorized with her, "usually parked next to the door, and not blocking the road, and not blocking people...", and finally I drove directly to the usual place to park, and when I wanted to park, I found that there was an advertisement frame fell across the ground, because I was still angry, I simply drove to the students downstairs to park, because the difference was Less than ten meters, is the owner of the block of parking electric cars. I think: other people's electric cars parked here, I also parked here, not blocking the road, not blocking people on the line.
When I was about to lock the car, the doorman came after me and asked me to go out! She said, "You can't park here, you park your car outside, if you do this again, I won't let you in, you..." She said, while the walkie-talkie, called someone to come over, said she would drive me away!
Wow! Really made me mad! The guards in this neighborhood, is this the way to treat guests? I usually pass through this neighborhood, I will nod hello to them, I do it because I respect people, I will nod hello when I see them. I do this because I feel that even though I don't know each other, at least we've met, and showing goodwill is a basic etiquette of interaction. Even though I'm coming to a student's home for a lesson, I'm at least a guest, right? What right does the doorman have to kick out a guest? It is really the weirdest neighborhood I've ever seen!!!
Really super pissed off! I immediately called the parents, and when the doorman heard the owner say that she was coming down to see what was going on, she immediately changed the conversation and said, "Forget it for today! ... "What do you mean "today even?" I don't know what to say! Not with her!
? After this night's unpleasant incident, I really need to think about the future arrangements!
? Some of the students who chose "Plan A" are running out of hours, while others still have a dozen or so lessons left. It's been a great experience over the past few months!
? In the past, I was always jealous of teachers who didn't have a piano store, jealous that they didn't have to pay rent and didn't have a lot of pressure on their expenses. Now, on the contrary, jealous of their former selves, used to only need to sit in the piano room, waiting for students to come to the lesson can be, but also can enjoy the "high above" feeling, this feeling, which is derived from this evening's unpleasant, and a kind of self-defeating feeling, feel that their own time is very cheap ah, time and energy is consumed in the road running and not nutritious to deal with. The time and energy is consumed by running on the road and dealing with no nutrients.
Time is money, if it is spent on how to create value, so as to live up to the youth! I believe that I have a solution!
Write this article, in fact, not to malign whoever. But sometimes, hold in the heart is really difficult, especially the current me.
During the day, it's either class, or you're with your kids, so try not to leave your family with bad feelings. In the evening, sometimes it is very late to go home from class, if you do not have to go to class in the evening, you have to take care of the children, at least until they go to bed, there is free time, but really wait until they go to bed, I'm also tired. Find a friend to talk to, my friends are mainly piano teachers, summer vacation, everyone is busy with lessons, if you are not teaching piano friends, they have to work during the day, and on weekends to take care of the children, basically it is also more difficult to have time to cross paths. Like the above spit things, if you say it, others may think I'm very petty, but also worried about affecting their image.
But if you don't have an outlet, you're afraid you'll be suffocated. You're not a saint, you can't be very generous and tolerant, and if you don't write an article, you can't find an outlet to vent your feelings.
Regarding the negative emotions, it is not a moment that can be solved. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to do this, and I'm sure I'm going to be able to do this, and I'm sure I'm going to be able to do this.
But often contradictory, spent time to earn money, spent on the children's time and energy is necessarily reduced, and I am three children, it is even more difficult to allocate.
Always enrolled in a lot of courses on home education, all want to implement with the children, to develop their thinking and ability. But either because I don't stick to it, or because I can't fit it into my schedule, or because my mind is always off my kids, I feel like I'm always doing a bad job, and it's very frustrating.
What kills me is that I always think about too many things, I can't be still, I can't concentrate on one thing, and, it's a reluctance to do only one thing! Too many contradictions, too many conflicts, really is "cut and cut, but also messy!
That's how I spent the four months after the piano school ended, in chaos. In the house, there are often three children's noise, occasionally scolding, occasionally laughter. Outside, it was either the sun and rain, or the sound of road sirens, the occasional complaint from my children's teachers, and the occasional praise from my children's teachers...
How have you, after the epidemic, been doing? What is your vision for the future?
Actually, I am still looking forward to the future!
At present, do not have to consider store rent, you can give yourself a small summer vacation; weekends can be less row some classes, try to spend more time with the child; when the baby went to school, you can continue to develop the "Adult Online Course" ...
In order to more intuitively explain the "Adult Piano" online course, I configured a projector, a projection screen, a folding piano, in order to make the course have a better lesson experience, I also plan to adapt some popular songs!
For example, design a two-lesson open class to teach participants to sing the climactic melody of a song, and if they can sing it, they can play it, and what they learn in two lessons is enough to record a 15″ video. Then, conduct a boot camp for about 3 weeks to teach the melody of just one popular song, learn it, and then conduct a special camp to learn the accompaniment part as well, and then play it with both hands.
The first two camps always tried to teach everything to the students, but not what they wanted. So the third installment continues to update the iteration and change the strategy to be purpose-driven!
The first boot camp, is a recorded class format, a lot of knowledge points 55 knowledge points, can adhere to learn the course students, can play a complete song.
The second boot camp, is the form of live class, real people appear, but affected by the summer vacation, can watch the live students but very few, can not achieve the effect of interaction.
So, the third bootcamp is a recorded class to talk about song knowledge points + a live class to answer questions.
In the recorded class, the PowerPoint is displayed in the projection screen, and you can see an enlarged version of the music theory points, as well as an enlarged version of the song sheet, which you can point to and sing the sheet music and teaching. You can also see the folding piano, just like the way you play the screen, the folding piano can be moved at any time, play how many registers, can be seen. In addition to the ppt and folding piano mentioned above, there is also my real life appearance! Hahaha, this recording class, you have to put on some light makeup to be able to, in order to image better, specially equipped with my makeup tools, we will remember to give me a good review acme!
The live class Q&A will collect your questions in advance, even if you miss the live broadcast, you can play back and see my Q&A. The first thing I'd like to do is to get the chance to see what I'm talking about, and I'm sure I'll be able to do that!
In fact, for the Adult Piano Online Course, I also intend to teach a different song for each session, hahaha, the third camp in September, the song is "The Moon Represents My Heart", if you are interested, remember to sign up!