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I’ve updated all of my social media accounts! I will be posting there regularly on differing schedules. So now you can follow my story anywhere and everywhere!
If you are looking for tutoring updates, I would recommend following the blog, but if you want to follow my journey, you can find me anywhere! My goal is to post short-form videos once a day. Any announcements or posts I make on here will also be shared on the appropriate cites.
Thank you for any and all support!
-Jack
I want to travel the country. I have dreamt of this since my college years. Back then, the dream itself was a way to escape the stress but was not meant to become a reality. I needed some way to escape the stress of classes. Now that I am free and that I have a few years of life behind me, I feel as if I owe it to my past self to make this fake dream a reality.
I can see myself living in a trailer, volunteering as a campground host, and tutoring math virtually. I would write blog posts and create videos of my day-to-day life. It wouldn’t be anything new and exciting for the world, but it would be for me. This isn’t to convince you that I am special, worthy, or even innovative. This is me wanting to live my life the way I need to.
From this day forward, you can expect more regular blog posts. I will also be posting on various social media about my day-to-day life. The goal is to travel, but I am a few years out of going anywhere out of state. So for now, you can expect updates on tutoring, walks and hike with my dog, and other varieties of content.
I am still updating and connecting my social media accounts, so be on the lookout for the new social media drop! Thank you to anyone who follows along. I look forward to the journey ahead!
Happy new school year everyone!
I hope all have enjoyed their summer. Leave a comment on wherever you find this post about something you’ll miss from the summer but also something you’re looking forward to for the school year.
Remember that learning is effort, so take breaks and let your brain rest. Especially since if you haven’t exercised it in a long time.
Good luck to all!
I remember the lead up to the first day of school. for me, it was always dreadful. The anticipation for change can help us mentally and emotionally prepare for what is to come, but the process of change can still be overwhelming and even frightening.
Students have always hated school from what I remember. They often dread school for the amount of responsibilities suddenly thrown on them, the social pressure to perform or to behave, and the freedom they lose for the sake of conformity, control, and ease. Teachers too can face the same feelings as the school year creeps up. Often times, each side may blame the other for making school what it is, instead of cooperating and cohabitating in an educational and fun environment.
With the new school year approaching, all I ask is for you to take time and find one thing you enjoy about the school year, one thing you can change to make it better, and one thing you would like to keep to make it familiar.
When I was in college, I would often find myself dreaming of traveling the country. I would imagine myself hiking the Appalachian Trail or living in a van while on the road to nowhere. To this day, it is often one of my escapisms.
One thing that I dream about is making a living while being a private tutor and traveling the country. It’s difficult, because part of the job is building a reputation with the community. So if I start traveling, I would have to spend a year or two in a single place before I can go off to somewhere new, and wherever I go, I am not guaranteed the income that I need to support myself. The only other option would be to be an online tutor, but that has it’s own troubles. The demand for online tutoring is high, but the supply is even higher. I would be competing with everyone across the nation. Although I have the experience to back up my hourly rates, my rates could never compare to a high schooler who took the class once and made an A. So even then, it would be a matter of building a reputation on whichever platform I find myself on.
Some other options I thought of would be to live stream the sessions. I have always been able to get a laugh out of students, especially if I let my brain go off the rail, but doing live streams while on the road can be difficult. I have also just thought of providing my own private tutoring outside of well known platforms, but I would still need to advertise myself and build some rapport with communities.
It’s a lot to think about, and I have a couple of years to figure it out. I have something stable for me right now, so I might just try to save up some money, and in a year, I could set sail and try something new. Or I might end up sticking with what I know because it’s safer. I am a creature of habit after all.
The world has been moving more and more towards virtual dependency for a while now. As internet access and computer access has become more ubiquitous, people have been leaning more and more into the online realms, and yet education still remains.
From what I have seen, education has always been resistant to change. It was COVID-19 that pushed it into a completely virtual environment, but without the proper infrastructure and training necessary, I believe that push did more harm than good. Although it made education more accessible to everyone, the quality took a hit. People were rushed to make last minute changes to lesson plans and curriculum in order to compensate for the sudden shift. And because of that forceful, demanding nature that it was, people did not receive it well.
Now, I am slowly starting to find people wanting in-person classes more and more. I don’t know if it is from the negative association with that forcefulness of COVID-19 or if education is necessarily a physical, in-person experience. Although online education is more convenient, it for some reason is not enough. Maybe we just don’t have the right platform for it. Maybe we don’t have the right medium. Maybe we just aren’t ready for it.
Whatever the case, I see online education becoming the norm. I think it is just a matter of when. What do you think?
I am trying to reach out to local communities and tutors, but I haven’t had much luck. Maybe it is just my approach because all I have been doing so far is emailing people. Do people really not check their emails? I know we live in a spam filled world, but I’d like to think that my emails sound at least somewhat human. I like to think that my writing has a voice, but maybe I’m wrong.
Regardless, I am going to have to start visiting these communities. Although it makes me anxious to, I need to give them a face to the name. I need to let them know that I am not some automated, ai-generated message that is trying to scam them. I am an actual person trying to help the local community and build a business.
Happy Friday!
Schools are starting back up pretty soon. Some of them are even starting next Friday!
With that, I wanted to say good luck to all of the students. Hopefully the transition back to school won’t be too rough. And also good luck to the teachers currently in prep mode! Thank you for your hard work and dedication to the community.
Appointments for the fall semester are opened, but my availability will change starting August 12th, so please keep that in mind. Other than that, have a good weekend everyone! Subscribe to the blog to receive emails and updates or follow me on Facebook. I am currently working on other social media platforms, but WordPress is being difficult.
Anyway, thanks again!
Does anyone know someone who is a professional tutor?
I have been thinking of starting a small network of people for the north Georgia region. People dedicated to tutoring and education. Honestly, I have even thought of rebranding my website to be more general and to have a page where local tutors are listed.
If you or anyone you know would be interested, feel free to reach out!
i have been trying to reach out to local churches to see if anyone is looking for a private tutor for their homeschoolers. My availability in the fall is looking to be in the mornings during the weekdays, so I figured that would be a great time for homeschoolers, but I have no idea on how to reach out to those parents.
I am planning to visit the church offices to see if they are willing to work with me, but in the meantime, does anyone have any ideas? I am always open to suggestions!
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