Would you do this working week ?

[Tyra435]

I know there will be people who have a much busier week, but I was curious to know what people thought about this one.

Monday to Friday, wake up at 5:55am, leave at 6:30.

Arrive at work at 7:45, leave at 3:45.

Monday Tuesday and Thursday tutoring. Takes me 1 hour to get to each person's house, 1 hour to get back.
Get home in the region of 7:45pm those nights.
Tuesdays tends to take me 1h30 to get home in traffic so I get home around 5:30.
Fridays I finish at 3 and get home around 4:15.
Weekends are completely my own, i'm single and have no kids.
I'm just knackered most evenings and I waste so much time on public transport. I cannot drive which doesn't help but i'm planning to start lessons soon (though can't find the time).

Does this sound like too much for a week ? I couldn't imagine dating someone unless I only saw him weekends and also having time for friends/family/hobbies.

Thanks for these great suggestions ! I will stop the tutoring at Christmas to 'round it off' but it's true it's not worth it for the travel.
I will take some of these ideas into account !

I'd be using my evenings to improve my full time employment earnings ( night school) and work one day in the weekend. For extra cash. The travel makes the tutoring pointless. What are you tutoring if you are a TA? Wouldn't you be better training to be a teacher?

No, I'm not a morning person and knowing I have to get up early makes me so grumpy. I work flexi and take the kids to school so I don't need to get up until 8ish now (lying in bed with my phone right now!) and I'm a much happier person overall because of it, much prefer finishing work at 5-ish and occasional evening work to top up. So I guess it depends how you find early mornings.

You week sounds fairly regular to me, although easier than mine as you don’t have kids so you’re only doing the one job rather than a job and then parenting on top.

Some things you could change... Why do you charge so little for your tutoring? You should be charging much more. Why do you live so far from work when work is only relatively low-paid? That can’t be worth the cost of the commute can it? If you don’t have kids you have tonnes of free time at the weekends to learn to drive, if this would improve your commute issues. Also, I assume you don’t work in school hols so this balances out across the year and you’d be able to learn to drive on an intensive course in the school hols.

Do you mind me asking your age OP? I wonder if some of your current situation is attributable to a bit of lack of life experience of the ‘real world’ and maybe not being able to problem solve around this issue particularly well.

Either get the tutees to come to you, or get set up for online. £50 is not nearly enough for the time spent.

Could you qualify as a teacher or at least HLTA, so you had better career prospects and more money?

If it helps to put it into context, my 16 year old DD does longer ‘hours’ than this at school, including a daily commute of over an hour each way on public transport.

You say you can’t imagine fitting in a partner or have time to learn to drive? You get home between 4.15 and 5.30 two nights a week and have all weekend to yourself!