We are in a good financial place at the moment, which is nice, considering our more expensive apartment, and our soon-to-be-born baby. However. Business is so incredibly slow right now for me. Now I don't work anything close to 40 hours a week, which is one of the things I really like about my job. Most weeks I probably hit somewhere around 25, give or take. This week, I worked nine.
Yep. Nine measly hours. This is a combination of the seasonal loss of some very good clients as they winter in Palm Springs, and a very slow start to the year. Traditionally, massage is a bit slow in the post-holiday recovery period, but Pilates usually takes off, what with all the resolutions and whatnot. Not this year. I don't know if it's the writer's strike (which appears to be ending, thank goodness) or the general crappiness of the economy, but people aren't starting Pilates practices right now.
It's not an immediate problem, but if this continues, I do worry about the next few months, as I will be stopping working in, wait, 11 weeks (Holy moly!) to have a baby, and recover from doing so. So it's not reassuring, though the worst that happens is that we dig into our savings a little, or maybe more than a little, which is disheartening at the least. I am considering attempting to pick up some hours at a different Pilates studio, but I'm not sure how likely that is.
BUT! BUT! We are healthy, we have a great new place, and great baby on the way (I can tell already), and I'm enjoying having the down time to relax, keep myself strong, and get the apartment settled. And we've narrowed the baby name list from around 50 to only 17 or 18 possibilities! Chris is also working a lot right now, having just shot a new commercial, as well as maintaining a busy schedule with his driving students. So we're okay. Just not ideal.
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