I am teaching chess for two purposes, one for living and the other one for improving my students and myself as well.
Teaching chess for a living
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Stylish_Player wrote:
Are you able to sustain a livelihood from teaching chess? or do you have another source of income?
I am teaching chess for two purposes, one for living and the other one for improving my students and myself as well.
I know quite a few that do make their living from teaching chess. However, unless they run the program themselves or an establishment is paying them steadily, individual/private lessons may not be enough to sustain a living and would have to be supplemented by some other source of income.
If you teach chess under your own name, have several pupils a day, and charge £20/30ph then you can have a comfortable lifestyle from it, but if you only teach one hour a day, three days a week you won't. It depends on the number of sessions you teach, and how much you charge, but it is possible.
Feb 23, 2015
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Legendary_Race_Rod wrote:
Stylish_Player wrote:
I am teaching chess for two purposes, one for living and the other one for improving my students and myself as well.
Are you able to sustain a livelihood from teaching chess? or do you have another source of income?
Not sure there's a huge market for individual chess lessons in the UK, but I may be wrong. Also are you living in London, preferrably not too far from the affluent districts ?
hicetnunc wrote:
I'm not sure there is either. I do live in an affluent area just outside London. Ideally, I would like to give up the day job at some point in the future to teach, but I'd probably want to teach music mostly with maybe a bit of chess on the side. I'm not ready to do that yet (not least because I'd need to study and improve a lot myself first!), but I was just interested to hear from people already doing it.
Legendary_Race_Rod wrote:
Stylish_Player wrote:
I am teaching chess for two purposes, one for living and the other one for improving my students and myself as well.
Are you able to sustain a livelihood from teaching chess? or do you have another source of income?
Not sure there's a huge market for individual chess lessons in the UK, but I may be wrong. Also are you living in London, preferrably not too far from the affluent districts ?
I'm just wondering, does anyone here make a living from teaching chess, or know anyone that does?