Job Description
For people that like to teach and be outdoors, teaching tennis is great. And tennis (like golf) is a sport where you can play for a lifetime so you'll always have a good range of ages to teach from. If you don't like kids, you can always teach adults or vice versa.
Pros
1) Teaching - When you teach someone a skill, the joy you get from someone learning that skill is undescribable. The adults I taught were great. With adults, you have to concentrate more on fixing their bad habits. With teaching kids, they are definitely more impressionable and they tend to pick up things quicker.
2) Outdoors - I taught tennis outdoors at a tennis club. If you work in an office building all day long, you know why this is a "pro". Plus, you can work on that darn tan eventhough you get a farmer's tan teaching tennis.
3) Flexibility - You can't teach tennis all day. Especially when you teach in the sun, it can be very draining. So you may teach 2-3 hours here, then break, then teach a couple 1/2 hour to hour lessons there.
Cons
1) Teaching - As in other teaching professions, sometimes teaching can be frustrating. You always try to adjust your teaching methods when someone can't pick up what you are trying to teach them. But, sometimes it may not be your teaching method and may just take time for them to figure it out. Also, when people don't practice what you teach them, it makes it harder for you. I wasn't a big fan of teaching kids because I found myself babysitting them most of the time.
2) Flexibility - Doing this part-time was perfect. Like I said above, teaching outside in the sun can be draining. I can't imagine teaching tennis for more than 5 hours in one day. If you were to do this full-time, your hourly pay would have to be pretty high to make a decent living from it.
Company Size
0-25 employees
Pay Range
$0-$20,000
Years in Job
3
Education
Tennis Background
City
San Jose
State
CA
