Teaching presented certain rewards. I know many other retired teachers who have expressed the thought that the kids were great but the other aspects of teaching were not enjoyable. These other things would include relating to administration, paperwork, and other duties not directly related to student contact. The best teachers enjoy seeing their students succeed and just enjoy the interacting with students. As a music teacher an added bonus was conducting and putting on concerts.
My second career was becoming a piano tuner. This is a solitary job in that you have travel time to the job and then after you begin working you are alone with the piano. You so get to meet new customers most every day and see many great pianos in some very nice homes. If the work is good the customers are often very appreciative of your work which can be a great rush. Pianos are very complicated machines and the challenge of correctly diagnosing problems and successfully correcting the problem can be very rewarding.
Retail is still meeting customers needs and having a store is a great way of advertising. I get many new customers from customers coming into the store, meeting me and then scheduling tunings before they leave. If you enjoy interacting with people and I do greeting customers and getting to know of their needs is a lot of fun. It is great to have the customers come to you and as time goes by the challenge is to get to know the market and put things in the store that meets the needs of your customers. Being small and new has been hard but I have always been very determined and this new gig is not going to get me.
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