What schedule would you choose if you didn't have to work 8-5, or Monday through Friday? I teach when children are not in school. Most of my colleagues teach afternoons and evenings. Some load their Saturdays. Some teach students before school, some teach Sundays. I have a few home-schooled students and adults who can come during the day. I choose to teach the rest Monday, Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 2-10. This includes some office time without students. Yes, this is late, yes, this is a long day, and yes, in my opinion, I'm sure I want to schedule it this way.
I also play keys on Sunday mornings; I'm "at work", although this is a fantastic gig with great fellow musicians, and it hardly feels like a job. This gives me Fridays and Saturdays as weekends. I like my teaching schedule as much as those who schedule themselves differently.
I had a request in August to take students before school. I am not a morning person. After I finish up, I relax until almost midnight. On Wednesday nights, we hold musician rehearsal here, and then I'm partial to a cocktail and some nachos. But mornings? No thanks. I think I had too many late gigs, theatre, and too much restaurant work to ever be good teaching before 9 a.m. I passed them on to another teacher in the area who loves mornings.
I see very few sunrises, but this one struck me as lovely. Don't the telephone lines look like the staff?
The lines certainly do look like the staff. For massage, my ideal schedule would be Monday-Thursday but, that is often too many days that I am off for people to get in if they are hurting.
ReplyDeleteSo, I've set my schedule as M,W,F, and Sat. I start as early and work as late as I need to so I can get 3 days off. I'd rather work many hours in a row to get more time off. Kind of a weird balance but it works...for now.