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| Wed, 03-16-2005 - 5:08pm |
Over the years I've hollowed out a nice little professional niche for myself here, but apparently I'm going to have venture out of my comfort zone. The gym I've worked at longest shut its doors. I'm not terribly stressed as I have plenty of work at the moment and very little fear about getting more. However, for several years I've been able to teach the classes I want to teach, the way I want to teach them, when I want to teach them. I'm really quite spoiled. ;-P Well, this gym is the only income I have in the summer (and it's not much since I got paid less there than anywhere else), so I have to find work at another gym. So what's the big deal? Nothing really - I just have to relearn to conform to somebody else ideas (I'm NOT good at conformity) and being on the bottom of the seniority list instead of the top.
What a wonderful start I got off to. LOL. I came home after finding out about the closure and put together a resume to fire off. The two postings I found requested the resume be e-mailed, so off it went. (Bear in mind its been over nine years since I've had to send out resumes.) It dawns on me as I'm out grocery shopping afterward that I didn't include references. On top of that when I checked things again I discovered a minor spelling error on my cover letter (fell instead of feel) AND in the subject line of one I used 'of' instead 'for' which worked grammatically but implied I held the position I applied for. :-o

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That gym sounds crazy!
that's a good idea about making sure you can keep your existing clients.
i think it's crazy to require you to be a member to sub, i would never do that. the places i sub neither require you to be a member nor give you a membership - you come in to sub, but you don't have a membership to come in whenever you want. which is fine, since they pay well and i already have enough gym memberships anyway!
sol, can't you work out at the Y that you teach at for free? don't they at least give you a free membership for teaching for free?
I have no problem w/ subbing. Actually I almost prefer the idea. I won't be subbing at this gym if I have to buy a membership first though. If you read that e-mail you'd see that it almost seems like she trying to scare me away or provoke a nasty response. DH thinks she's threatened by me. I know of the woman and she needs to be the centre of everything and in a position of power. (She's just a bit older than me & has been certified in group fitness almost as long, but I have more experience teaching & more extensive certification.) She shouldn't feel threatened but I guess that's her problem to deal w/ not mine. After I decide what I'm going to do about the other position I'll send her a very polite & diplomatic reply.
Good idea about the clause.
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