We haven't yet quite given up on our much-loved, much-fought-after potential building for our boxing club but today another place captured the heart of Snickers (and yes, it's capture my eye too). It's MUCH larger than the initial first place, SO much larger -- it's 200 pyung. For those of you not familiar with pyung sizing, well, my house has 12 rooms and is 60 pyung and UP Boxing Club is about 35 pyung. Yes, now you understand when I say it's so much larger!
This specific building is located over by the Cheonan subway station and used to be a hair shop so it's loaded with lots of perks that we thought we'd have to shill big money towards -- mirror-lined walls, lockers, and a front counter. One problem.... one "minor" problem, as Snickers sarcastically noted, it's $30,000 out of our reach.
So my issue with starting my boxing club went from trying to get the building management to give us permission to move in to now having to come up with the additional $30,000 key deposit.
Ways to get $30,000….
1. Join KickStarter.com. This was suggested by a friend. The first problem however is that it’s American-only site, a minor thing. I’m sure I could get around because hello, I have a fitness company that is a beautiful collage of women from over 15 different countries. But then there’s the second problem, my boxing club doesn’t exactly fit one of their categories, boo to that.
2. Be a scientific research guinea pig. Offering my body to science can be profitable but there’s no such research guinea pig postings these days in Korea.
3. Panhandle on the street. This would involve removing all sense of dignity and pride I have, no thanks.
4. Becoming a moving advertisement. I kind am already doing that for Adidas. I read about this guy named Joe Tamargo who put an offer on Ebay to permanently tattoo an ad on his body and he got a crazy huge response!
5. Sell my first child. Well considering I don’t have one I suppose this means having one and then selling it. And if "child" you mean selling Pyen Chi, don't even think about it!!!
6. Open a lemonade stand. Lemonade in winter?! Koreans don’t really drink it even in the summer. Perhaps a soju stand would be more appropriate.
7. Sell some valuable possessions. Hmm… my most valuable thing that’s not breathing and walking would probably be my mother’s pearl watch. I string of its’ pearls needs replacing so it’s dollar worth is much less than it’s sentimental worth.
8. Rent out a room. A potential help considering we do have that one front room. It went from being a potential bedroom for my father then my father-in-law, to being a gym room but now it’s just storage for the new boxing club.
9. Join a paid focus group. I actually looked into this online but it seems like a lot of hoops to jump through and a lot of potential scams.
10. Raid the piggy bank. We did that a couple of years back and though we’ve started a new piggy bank since, we’re guilty of going for weeks without properly “feeding” it.
11. Start gambling. The closest thing to gambling both Snickers and I care to venture into is doing some pool sharking and putting money on another other game. Snickers won some money at ping pong the other day. I don’t know what I’m more embarrassed at, him being proud of winning a couple of bucks or him playing ping pong.
12. Pick up a part time job. Did that… applied for a Saturday tutoring gig. I really, really, REALLY want to get away from teaching English. I don’t want to drown in the pool of foreign ESL teachers though because it’s really not my passion anymore. “Do it because you love it”, Snickers always tells me. I love teaching but not teaching English so, according to Snickers rules of life, I shouldn’t be doing it. It’s super fast cash though, not $30,000 fast, just faster than doing nothing I suppose.
13. Get a loan. We're already doing this. It's not government loan so the interest is low but consequently so is the amount.
14. Break a limb. Sounds silly but if you knew how much my insurance paid out to me for breaking my nose in my last fight, ya, you'd consider taking it up as a part time gig. However, I like my nose -- my new nose, and I don't care to break it a fourth time, thanks.
15. Ask for money. There’s no flowering our intentions, it’s very cut and dry, but this just may be the key way for us to go. It’s unrealistic to expect to be given the money we need, it’s quite the hefty sum, but we’re hoping for some kind of loan.
16. Sign for another fight. Because I stepped away from UP Boxing Club, I am officially a free agent so I've yet to renew my boxing license this year -- have no club to register it under, yet. Doesn't stop me from taking unofficial paying fights however. It's fast cash and so very tempting but I made a promise to myself to stop that once I started my own company (Flipside Fitness). I have too much going for myself and I'm too invested in my life here in Korea to jeopardize having immigration come after me!
15. Prozible.com. This is very similar to KickStarter.com but it allows me to sign up AND it has more available categories. But which category would signing up a boxing club fall under? Perhaps community, after all I do really hope our boxing club helps establish a more fitness-friendly, close knit community within Cheonan. I’m hesitant as to whether I should even go about this route, it seems rather far-fetch to hope anything will become of this, but then again I suppose it can’t hurt…. BUT… I decided to take this approach. One HUGE problem, setting up a PayPal that works with this. Snickers’ PayPal uses Korean won but Prozible.com doesn’t offer that currency for it’s pledges so it won’t connect his PayPal. So I decided to set up my own PayPal but came across another problem. I don’t have a Canadian bank account so using the Canadian currency link isn’t an option.
Looks like simply asking for a money loan may be my only realistic option because time is of the essence and a chunk of cash is needed asap.
Next Week's Anticipated Business Meetings:
Potential Building Management
Cheonan Station Realtor
Adidas Boxing Equipment Manager
Adidas Managing Director
The Cheonan Trump
WOW Motors Manager
Sunny’s Hair Shop
Seoul Global Center Financial Planner
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