Big city, small town (kind of sappy)

Well, I spend so much time making/contributing pit threads, I figure I ought to write about something positive for a change :slight_smile:

It is great that even though I live in the 11th largest city in the USA, and work in three jobs that don’t initially seem connected to each other, there is a community within my day to day life which I am a part of! Case in point:

A few weeks ago, I was at 7-eleven to grab a cup of coffee and donut before my morning crossing guard shift. While I was there, a gentleman in a jumpsuit recognized me and said hello. He was a trash collector, whose route went right past the corner I work at. More importantly, his daughter was a member of the tutoring center I ALSO work at. What an amazing coincedence! :eek: While we were topping off our tanks with caffeinated fuel, he commented that he never sees me at the tutoring center on Mondays. I told him I teach beginner piano lessons on Mondays. He then asked me if it would be possible to teach his daughter, whom I already tutor, how to play the piano. I told him I had an opening, and now, I have her as a student! The trifecta is complete! :smiley:

So early in the morning, as I’m crossing kids, sometimes his truck will be right there, and we holler banter at each other while I hold out for stragglers to get across the street. It is a really good feeling that doing so many things actually has a pretty neat benefit- when parents find out all the stuff I do, many of them consider me a rather valueable asset. It definitely helps my piano teaching gig, a job which depends on me to be proactively looking for people interested in having their child take piano lessons. What better places to look than my other jobs? :slight_smile: When parents ask me “What else do you do?/What are your hobbies?” I always mention the piano teaching job first, because so far, I have three students I acquired through my other jobs.

Its amazing that in a city of 2-odd million(?) people, so many people are connected to everything I do during the day. I often compare myself to the pimple-faced teenager in The Simpsons, who can be found working virtually every mundane, low-level job in Springfield. :slight_smile: