Tutoring to Make Money

Filed under Be a Tutor - News by Peggy on Nov 5th, 2010. 

via beatutornow.com

Tutoring is a good way to make money. But it is so much more than making money alone. Tutoring is formaing relationships with students. It involves helping them to gain confidence, and there is a great sense of job satisfaction when you see your students doing well academically when they put to use the skills you have taught them.

There are few professions as satisfying as tutoring. Unlike teaching, tutoring allows you to work one on one with each individual student. Lasting relationships can be formed with the families of your students, especially when tutoring multiple children in the same family or tutoring the same student over a number of years.

Tutoring also helps the tutor to stay up to date and fresh in their field, which is a great feeling.

But to know that you can make money while helping someone else is really an awesome thing. So many people are dissatisfied with their jobs these days. It's sad to see so much of your life oozing away to something you don't like.

Tutoring is very likeable, and it can be done part-time or full-time. The flexibility is amazing and you get to set your own fees. Don't under-rate yourself. Find out what other local tutors are charging and then pick a rate somewhere in between the highest and the lowest.

Cut-rates in tutoring don't earn you any trust. The fee you charge is an indication of the confidence you have in yourself. And for the parents, it is an indication of how much you can teach their child. So, don't go overboard and charge so high that no one can afford you, and stay well above the rock-bottom prices.

Rhino poaching crisis: Chinese Demand for Illegal Rhino Horn Fuels Rampant Rhino Poaching - Rhinos Driven Closer to Extinction

via savingrhinos.org

Okay I almost didn't blog about this because the article is so sad that I can't believe it. Especially if you scroll down on the original article and see the suffering that a mother rhino went through at the hands of humans. I wish I could call it something else, because the treatment they gave her is anything but humane.

Well we need to spread the word and make people more aware. Apparently China and Vietnam are the biggest culprits in the illegal rhino horn trade. Yemen used to be involved too but I guess not so much any more.

Wise up, people! There aren't even any medicinal benefits of rhino horn. It's just an overgrown fingernail! Gosh! Bite your own fingernails and leave the poor rhinos alone.

Books | Graeme Robin

via graemerobin.com

This looks like an awesome book! The author is in his 70's, he goes traveling around Eastern Europe in this old Fiat car, and takes pictures of the places he's been, and writes about the things he has seen.

His website tells a lot more about the book and where he has gone. The pictures are amazing, and I love his writing style. It is of grumpy and funny and sentimental at the same time.

This book is really worth a read. If you have ever wanted to travel to far away places but couldn't, this book will take you there.

Loonie drops almost 3 cents - Business - CBC News

via cbc.ca

Looks like the Canadian loonie has dropped a few cents in relation to the American greenback. Lately when I have made online purchases I notice that the dollars are about neck and neck. Sometimes just a few cents difference, but I guess this is the first time since late January that the loonie has closed below parity with the U.S. dollar.

Don't know how long it will stay that way? I hope the loonie doesn't take a fall that's too much below the greenback because it makes online shopping so much nicer when I know they are about equal. :)

BBC News - Powerful Typhoon Roke hits Japan

via bbc.co.uk

Oh my goodness! This is incredible. The typhoon really dumped a lot of seawater on Japan! They are talking about the possibility of the rain forcing radioactive water into the sea. But that begs the question, "where is the radioactive water coming from?" Does Japan have radio-active tainted water supplies?

The storm is expected to hit ravaged Fukushima, a nuclear site. So maybe the rain would force radioactive stores into the sea?

The northeast coast has already been hit by the March 11th earthquake and tsunami. They are getting a double whammy this year.

The nuclear plant is taking every possible precaution against the typhoon, hopefully that will be enough.

So far only 4 people have been found dead, and 2 missing. Hopefully they can keep the death toll down by being somewhat prepared and planning ahead. Good luck to them. My heart goes out to them.

Rare Arctic creatures in trouble - CNN.com

Paul Nicklen makes friends with Arctic wildlife, photographing seals, polar bears, narwhals and others in remarkable closeups.

And Nicklen, a contributing photographer for the National Geographic, is passing along a message from the creatures he sees: They're in trouble.

The reason is that the sea ice is disappearing, removing a key element from the environment sustaining Arctic life.

Nicklen, whose work has been recognized with multiple awards, tracked the rare spirit bear for a National Geographic cover story. From the age of 4, when his family moved to Inuit territory in Canada, Nicklen has explored the region, in later years as a biologist and a photographer.

He spoke at the TED2011 conference in Long Beach, California, in March, where he was interviewed by CNN.

Watch Paul Nicklen's TED Talk

Nicklen pitched a project to the National Geographic on the leopard seal, a 12-foot long, 1,000-pound creature with a ferocious reputation. He was prepared for hostility but upon spotting one, he was surprised to find it tried to feed him its prey, penguins. "So I went there terrified of what I might meet in this leopard seal and actually was nurtured and protected and cared for," he said in the interview. "It was the most incredible encounter of my career by far."

Nicklen said that polar bears could face extinction within 50 to 100 years if ice continues to recede.

"We know the science. We know that ice is disappearing and after a while it just becomes a statistic. And with my photography I want people to understand that if we lose ice, we stand to lose an entire ecosystem.

"This is our one chance at life on this planet. Our planet is in trouble and we are not reacting fast enough."

via cnn.com

This is an incredible account of a National Geographic Photographer's encounter with a leopard seal. The teeth definitely look menacing, but when their mouths are closed they are truly very beautiful. The whole ice-melting thing makes me truly sad. I can't imagine life without Polar Bears, and all the other sea creatures that are part of the vast Arctic Ecosystem.

Paul Nicklen really hits the nail right on the head when he says that the creatures are in trouble, it's our world, and we are not reacting fast enough. I think we all know that's true, don't we?

Giant Eagles 'Could Target Children'

via gawker.com

I would not want to be attacked by one of those, and I would certainly keep my children well hidden from one. I have seen a giant eagle pick up a deer and drop it off a cliff to kill it and then swoop down and carry it off for dinner.

With a wingspan of 8 feet you have no idea the power these birds have. The article talks about 14 Sea Eagles being imported from Norway into Scotland. Apparently the areas the sea birds were taken are "not quite wild enough" and now parents are fearing the birds may mistake a child for one of their natural prey.