I had read that you dress in a suit and wait around until someone comes to take your lesson. You do their lesson which they pay the company like 5000-7000 yen for about 45 minutes and you get about 1500 yen. But that you aren’t paid for the time that no one comes to take your lesson.
But I talked to someone recently who said it’s not like you go whenever you want, that you have to make a schedule. If that’s true, how far in advance do you have to make the schedule, and do you have to be there the whole time or is it like you just show up when you want?
I’m in a unique situation where I’m looking for a flexible type job due to health issues.. so want to see if this might be a good job for me to try.
Thanks
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You schedule it out the previous month, I think it’s the 15th but I don’t remember. As a new instructor, you’ll get precedence in your scheduling selections (and bookings where a client didn’t pick an instructor) but after that period ends, you don’t get any privileges so you fight with all the other tenured instructors for your times. I remember staying up til midnight to submit my schedule to have some kind of chance at getting what I want, but even then its not a guarantee. More than once my manager told me they didn’t actually have room for me at a scheduled time so they canceled out my slot at that time.
You can make your schedule as of midnight on the first of the previous month. You have until the 10th to submit your schedule and that’s when it goes live. From there your lessons can get booked. Any unbooked lesson slots can be closed and you don’t need to be there.
You can open more lessons after the 10th as well. If you don’t submit anything by the 10th, you still can but it’s discouraged and can look bad. I don’t know if there’s any disciplinary actions but it’s just not a good idea since a lot of people book their lessons on the day the schedules go live.
God GABA.. what an awful company.