Since starting the advanced studies program at PYS, I have been keeping track of the number of hours I've been practicing yoga at home, at school, or at public classes. As I have added up the hours, I have also been keeping track of the amount of money spent or earned.
*** BTW We're starting the "thank-yous" early with a big Thank You to Veteran's Day for giving me the day off from school! Only 4 school days left until a week long Thanksgiving Break! ***
The first category is the advanced studies yoga program which costs about $13 an hour (plus the expenses of books). The program is 200 hours over the course of a year. We are currently 42 hours into the program.
The second category is free yoga classes that I get to take because I'm in the advanced studies program. I usually count these as money I've earned paying back for the program. My goal is to take as many free classes as I can to pay back half the expense of the program.
The third category is yoga that I teach to my teenagers at school. On Tuesdays I do the poses with them and on Thursdays I'm walking around giving directions. But I count the whole 3 hours a week as time I am participating in yoga activities and am getting paid an excellent amount... $50 an hour... yikes!!
The fourth category is public yoga classes that I pay for because my favorite teacher is not a part of the advanced studies yoga program.
The fifth category is yoga practiced at home. This is free yoga and I am not doing nearly enough of it. My computer calendar has a reoccurring event on it for 6am yoga. I usually miss it by not getting up until 6:30am.
I keep all of this organized on excel. I put in formulas to add up all of the hours, add up all of the money and then divide. I'm not trying to impress anyone here... I'm just feeling amazed. Since September 1, I have logged in 96.5 hours of yoga and I am currently getting paid $6.99 per hour. Later this afternoon, I'll take another free class and then it'll be 98 hours = $7.04 per hour. (note: this is slightly inaccurate b/c I need to save some of the money I've earned teaching yoga for paying taxes which weren't taken out of my check... I'm not sure how much that should be)
Yikes I've just thought about other things I could explore... like how I could find the daily $ over the last two months or I could figure out how many hours I would need to break even or to make money from the program.
This is what happens when a math teacher gets into yoga. You can all laugh now.
Thanks for reading.
2 comments:
Goofy math teacher! You could use that as a "real-life" lesson in class. And I hear what you're saying about trying to find storage spaces. We gave up with this newest move and are renting a storage unit because I can't handle the clutter that would come with all our activities.
My Humanoid Confirmation Word is Dutjo!! Yeah! Sounds like a Nike-branded version of a Far Eastern martial art or something...
Your post reminded me of a Saga conversation with Zaccheus Thompson. (How's THAT for a blast from the past?!) We were sitting there on a lovely winter noon midway through my freshman year when Sean Wilson commented that he thought he'd skip his next class because he didn't feel like going. I started wondering aloud as to whether I ought to do the same, having never previously skipped a class...and before I got very far into it, the White Ninja broke in with a report on the opportunity cost of skipping class...I forget the exact number, but apparently that one class session was costing something on the order of a couple hundred bucks, and it would ALL be going to WASTE if I skipped!!!!!!! (Sorry, had to indulge my inner teenager there.)
I don't know that I really like thinking about things in terms of opportunity cost, or financial costs like that. I'm sure it'd be good for me to pull my head out of the sand, but I'm afraid I'd be discouraged and/or guilt-ridden...
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