little joy joy - a personal trainer?

Today my trainer once again suggested I make personal training my full time career. You have the passion for fitness, the physique to train and a suitable personality to boot. We need people like you. There's a huge market now, with a high demand for female trainers, and we are short of people. Says he. So why can't I do it part time, I asked. Well, it's hard doing it part time, you need to make it a full time job. But I need to earn more says I. The pay is too low. You'll make what you're making now in 3 months, he said. And I guarantee you'll make even more once you're stable. Sounds tempting indeed. A physical job is definitely better for me in the long run. Although my job isn't too bad, and I enjoy learning new things and challenging my mind with this job, in this exciting industry, the job can get a little mundane and deskbound at times. And knowing me, I'll kill myself if I have to be tied to my chair 9-5 for five days a week. It gets too predictable, too comfortable, too...boring. Yet at the same time, I'm still progressing. My clients are liking me, and it looks like my future is pretty bright in this industry. So I'm reluctant to give the job up right now.

So then I told him, why don't I do the floor training on my own time, outside my full time job. It's tough says he. That means you have to do it weeknights and in the weekends. Well I can do it says I. I don't have much of a social life (by choice okay). I'd rather enrich myself this week. Workaholic indeed. He wasn't keen on me doing this, but after much persuasion and nudging (we're good friends you know, and you like me so much etc etc), he agreed to see if he can slot me in any available weeknight and Sunday time slots. Kinda excited really. Hope I'll be able to start "working" next week. I know they pay peanuts, but hey, it doesn't really matter. At least I get the training, and maybe I'll be able to start building my client base. And who knows I might really like training people physically. We'll see. If that happens, then I'm sure I'll be able to make a better decision on whether I should make this my full time career.

But little joy joy as a personal trainer. Can you see it? My step classmates keep saying how young I look (this lady keeps thinking I was in school or something). And you know, they see me as a little girl. But hey, maybe I can make a pretty kickass trainer. After all, I was born to exercise. :)

Woohoo this prospect is so exciting. Yet something else to look forward to in my life.