I know a lot is people here are judging but when I read this the first question that comes to mind is how do I hire a good tutor for my kid. The second is Why aren’t there a bunch of startup getting into the business. Public schools are clearly failing kids so tutors could be a really good bridge to fill the gap.
The life of a private tutor (2020)
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Re: The life of a private tutor (2020)
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I was a private tutor for a long time. My market segment often leaned toward the "rather wealthy," although not anything like this. However, the struggle to motivate is very real. Each child or teen (or even young adult) comes with their own package of bad coping skills, strengths and deficits, motivations (or lack thereof), and so on. Each one has a history . In any case, to my actual point -- discovering those moti…
Do you have any tips for hiring someone like yourself for tutoring. Honestly I feel like I’d be doing my kid a huge disservice by not hiring a tutor but hiring a good one is probably key.
That would be a hard ask. I've had kind of a knack for it, I was helping other kids since grade school.
What you want is someone who works for the child, not the parent. They should have a rounded education but also be willing to admit that they do not know something and must research. They should understand a decent amount of child psychology and how people process/retain information.
Finding folks like that, I dunno!
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Doctors and lawyers aren’t elite though. They are solidly middle class.
In SF/NYC/LA, maybe. In any city with less than a million people, they are much more frequently upper-middle to upper class. Additionally, despite often being mentioned in the same breath/status, doctors and lawyers follow very different distributions of compensation. Attorney pay is shockingly bimodal: the ambulance chaser firm advertising on the back of the city bus is paying first-year associates <60k, if that, th…
A while back I was curious to see what the 10 most expensive houses in my bay area (east bay) city were. They were all up on the hills of course. With some more search I found out the owners and what they do and 9 out of 10 were doctors and one was a CEO of a company.