The Sewing Mom

I finished up my second week of working for my daughter’s guitar instructor. There are some definite pros and cons and I’m trying so hard to decide if I will continue with this or not. Truthfully, this morning I had decided I was going to tell him it wasn’t working out. Then, I went in to the studio and he handed me a check for working and I couldn’t say anything except “thanks!”.

I like doing his computer work, updating address, emailing, etc. I don’t like that he wants me to work evenings and concert nights. Night time is family time for me and I don’t want to give that up.

I am working tomorrow night’s public concert because my daughter is performing also, but I don’t want to do this on a regular basis. That’s just not my cup of tea. I did suggest to him today that perhaps he look for someone that is more comfortable working evenings and concert events. He didn’t seem to want to do that.

I’ll talk to him more next week. I am missing having my days to myself, but I did like getting paid. Not sure what I’m going to do.

My daughter takes guitar lessons from a gentleman who owns his own studio.  She been taking lessons from him since last July and is progressing very nicely.  Last week, when we went in for her lesson, he informed me that the young kid who had been working for him quit.  He was in a quandry about what he was going to do.   He even went so far as to ask me if I wanted the job!  I told him that I didn’t read music, so it really depended on what the work entailed and we sort of left it at that.

Today we were back for this week’s lesson and he brought up the job again, this time though, he had made a list of job duties.  It’s basically filing, printing documents and music from his computer, answering the phone, ordering supplies, etc.  This, for the most part, I can do.  The only thing that is questionable are the hours.  This is not an 8-5 kind of job.  It would mostly be working a few hours a day, a few days a week, but in the afternoons.  This could create a scheduling problem for me because it would mean my daughter would either have to come with me or she’d stay at home by herself.

Basically, today I told him that I’d like to meet with him when he doesn’t have a lesson going on so he could show me in more detail what he wants, the programs on his computer, etc., and we could come up with a schedule that would work for both of us.  We haven’t talked money yet either, so I’m interested to see what he thinks this job is worth.

Right now I’m still mulling this over.  The extra money would sure come in handy.  I’ll keep you posted.