A Battle for the Buck... Monday, December 12

Boxing, boxing... and more boxing. This is exactly what's been consuming me lately and I am definitely not complaining but it's leaving me quite exhausted. After a long day of boxercise classes, meeting personal training clients and then doing my own boxing training, I then come home to watch past fight highlights or UFC on the TV before I call it a night.

Not too sure if you clicked on the above pic of my schedule to enlarge it (or if you can for that matter), but this week I'm throwing in two 6am boxercise classes... ya, ouch. It'd be one thing if it were early morning tutoring like when I tutored at the crack of dawn at Samsung. The scooter ride over woke me up but the job wasn't physically demanding on me. I could simply sit back and chat the hour away. Not so with boxercise though.

I have my sister-in-law's wedding to go to this Sunday so boo to that in that I won't be able to host my regular boxercise classes. Sunday tends to be my busiest day with yesterday being a prime example -- Fat to Phat Challenge kick-off, advanced boxercise class and then a beginner boxercise evening class.

I've been spending my afternoons lately working on my fitness book that I've been writing, revising and constantly adding to for the past couple of years. I still manage one of my friend's fan page but with her not having a bodybuilding competition till February, she's got extra time on her hands so she's been trying to handle it herself.

Flipside Fitness -- both my personal training and boxercise -- has been paying the bills somewhat but I'm seriously thinking about taking it to a much different level. I love hosting it at my boxing club here in Cheonan but I've been offered a guaranteed set monthly salary if I take it to Seoul where my cliental would most likely be married Korean housewives. It'd be very similar to the class I did about a month ago but I remember that class like it was yesterday. I was more or less on show and those in my class were more interested in watching me and socializing than actually putting forth the effort and focus. It was rather frustrating to me actually.

None the less, networking here in Cheonan is brutally hard and though I've been getting a good turn-out it's definitely not as good of a turn-out as I had anticipated or hoped for. The foreign crowd is a tough crowd here. I'm definitely putting in the time and effort, heck even if only one person shows up for a boxercise session I'll do the session, meaning I'll train someone for an hour and a half for only 15,000won. That's a huge bonus for them considering I charge my personal training clients more than double that price for only a hour. But I'm not complaining. I'm super thankful for those who have been showing up and I consider myself extremely blessed to be doing something I love so. Having said this though, picking up random jobs to cover the bills isn't what I want to be doing in addition to running my own company. Afterall, one (of many reasons) why I created my own company so that I wouldn't have to lean on someone else to give me work and hand me a paycheck. I wanted to earn an honest dollar my way.

I know for a fact my life would be so much easier if I just gave in and signed up for the next available English teacher position but I also know for a fact I wouldn't be happy. I had the great teaching job; I worked at Dankook. Four day weeks, 20 hour work weeks, many months off for summer and winter, and a paycheck that easily kept Snickers and I fed, clothed, plus so much more.

Do I regret quiting Dankook? No, but I can't help but wonder if I've bitten off more than I can chew or if there's even enough here to chew on and maintain.