I STILL want to be mortgage free - 2011!

twinklie

pavlovs_dog wrote: »

that said, Twinklie does seem scarily organised and, perhaps more importantly, self disciplined, when it comes to her planning, so i think personality comes into it too :beer:

What can I say I'm a control/organisation freak?? But honestly, science is quite structured in what we have to teach and it pays to get your equipment planned out in advance because if you don't someone else books it and then you have to rejig everything which is a nightmare!

pavlovs_dog

that's the perk of language teaching. the only equipment i ever have to worry about booking is laptops. It sucks teaching in foreign classrooms doesn't it, especially in such a specialised subject I'm so thankful for having my own room.

twinklie

The worst thing is I have the same room for the day I'm not in a lab...but it's a computer room! ARGH!!! "Are we going on computers Miss???" "Are we???" "Please...." "(Insert name of annoying child) said we were going on the computers".

I spy me being mean on these days!

twinklie

Right, just spent ages writting out a terms and conditions of service for tutoring. Still toying with getting some business cards etc. Hmmmm.....

pavlovs_dog

apparently if you sign up to vistaprint, design a card and leave it in your basket you'll get emailed tons of offers a few days later to convince you to buy. It's how loads of people on the wedding forum get cheap save the date cards etc.

Hurdler

When I created a limited company for contracting, I used Vista for both those cards AND those for plugging my writing ahead of the journalism interview and entrance exam. The down side is the constant spamming for more orders. But if you can live with deleting them daily - and I do mean DAILY, then they are worth a look for the free cards and you just pay for the postage.

twinklie

Oddly, I got my save a date cards for my wedding through vista print. Thanks guys.
I was thinking I'll have to set up a tutoring email account so I might do it through that. The only thing is what to put on the card. It's going to be going around the kids at school as well as strangers. I live 30 miles + away from where I teach. Do I put my address and phone number? I'm just a tad worried about kids having my phone number.

pavlovs_dog

you could pick up a cheap/free sim and have a number just for tutoring?

twinklie

Cheers ears. Thats what I was just talking to DH about. So now to sort out tutoring I have an additional to do list! DOH!

1. Buy SIM for tutoring
2. Set up email account
3. Sort business cards
4. Sort accounts spreadsheet Already started this one but am struggling abit.
5. Finish terms and conditions stuff

pavlovs_dog

keep the receipt for the sim and top ups, i imagine you'd be able to claim them as business expenses:j