It’s been a rough and amazing few days. My back has been flaring up a bit But I’ve learned a few new tricks to manage it. I’ve connected with this community on a deeper level than before and I have a few new allies who want to help me find students.
One of these new allies has been trying to convince me to move to her place. She lives in a really fancy shared house with 5 other people. Most would say it’s out of my price range, but the truth is one extra student a month is enough to pay the difference.
As part of my project, upgrading my life, I think this might be a really good choice. The fact is, the people that live there have a little more money than the people I currently know. They tend to know people more in the business world, well I know a lot more artists. They are much closer to the people I’m targeting as potential students than the people I currently know. So I’m thinking that maybe this will be a kind of investment in order to advertise my classes to my people.
That doesn’t mean we have nothing in common. I’ve met a bunch of the roommates and I get along with them just fine.
I worry about is that I just met this friend and the ways of thinking are rather similar, our culture, our group of friends, and our experiences could potentially clash. People like her friends and people like my friends tend not to get along. The only reason we do get along is that we both like making friends with people who are outside of our comfort zone.
Another thing I consider is that for the same price I could easily rent my own apartment and live a really comfortable existence away from the issues that come with having roommates.I haven’t had my own place in years and to be paying this much feels a little bittersweet knowing that I could have my own place.
And truth be told I probably shouldn’t be living somewhere at this cost with my current salary, but if only two students can first cover the difference and then also allow me to continue my current lifestyle more securely, shouldn’t I just go for it? The only way it’ll be a problem is if I can’t find any students for the first two months I’m living there. On the one hand it seems unlikely, on the other, I’ve only found one student these past two months since I raised my price.
Part of me feels like moving there lead to an explosion in you students. One of my goals is also to help bring different kinds of people together and having this different group of friends will help me start doing that on a bigger scale.
Anyways, I’ll stop by there tomorrow and take another look at the rooms and see what I’m getting myself into.
The past 48 hours I’ve spent almost entirely on my body. It’s been difficult to keep up with what’s going on and hive. I hope to be more consistent but it really all depends on the state of my health, you know how it is.