Physical Instructor...

I recently took up kick boxing on weekends in my attempt to keep fit.

As I watched my instructor shout out instructions during class, another path came to mind. A spin-off from the previous post of being a physical education teacher, a physical instructor would also be very interesting. I will term physical instructor as anyone who can teach any form of physical activities, such as, gym, aerobics, dance, kickboxing, yoga, scuba diving, etc.

A career in this line would also be interesting. Keeping fit whilst earning your pay and making friends along the way. There will be some qualifications to be earned before being able to teach such classes. However, once attained, teaching would probably not be too difficult. Furthermore, most of these classes will keep going and either people will keep signing up again for more classes or recommend friends to join the classes. Thus, going this direction is pretty much self sustaining. Also, this job is relatively on your own time. The schedule for teaching is set my oneself and runs for about 3 months or so.

Unfortunately, the pay for this varies depending on your popularity. Another minus point for this job is that typically it runs into evenings and weekends. When others are enjoying their weekends or resting during evenings, a physical instructor still has to work as usually classes are scheduled after working hours. Although holidays/breaks are self proclaimed, this would result in a drop in earning as one would have to stop teaching to take a break. Thus, this is also another minus point. Dance, kick boxing teachers, etc also have to do some planning before classes to choreograph the routines. Therefore, some creativity would be needed to maintain the interest of the students.

Although an interesting path to take, I feel that I might not be able to excel in this line as I think that the connections required in this line differ from the connections which I have already established. So, although a good, fun career to follow, I feel that this move would not be for me.

Analysis
Pros:
Keep fit and earn at the same time.
Holidays/breaks as and when one plans on having them.
Fun and keeps a large social circle of clients/friends.
Relatively high/medium pay.

Cons:
No income during holidays/breaks.
Working time is mostly when others are having their break. Which is weekends and evenings.
No increment, unless increase teaching fees, which may result in clients dropping off.