Ali gets a part-time job as a maths tutor at Kumon at 14
story · status: told 3× · last event: retold (2021-06-06) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Ali does freelance web development on getacoder.com as a schoolboy
About: Kumon
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-06 | told | At school Ali worked for a tutoring agency for six pounds an hour, four hours a week, which made 96 pounds a month and left him feeling super loaded. | Life Advice Q&A with my Brother 00:09:32 |
| 2021-04-22 | retold | At about 14 Ali got a job at Kumon, a local maths and English study centre, helping children with maths for about £4.50 (about $6) an hour. | The 4 Hobbies that Improved my Life 00:17:13 |
| 2021-06-06 | retold | Ali's second stream: at 14, good at maths, he asked Alison, the instructor at the Kumon maths and English study centre, for a job and became a part-time tutor at £4 an hour. | How I Built 9 Streams of Income By 23 00:01:56 |
What is said about it
10 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2021-06-06 · How I Built 9 Streams of Income By 23 — Ali's Kumon pay rose to £5 an hour after two years and £6 at about 18; working two to four hours a week, he earned £20 to £30 a week, which felt rich. — 00:02:26
- 2021-06-06 · How I Built 9 Streams of Income By 23 — Ali: Kumon was Ali's first real job with proper hours: he really enjoyed teaching maths to those who came for help but not marking work and the grunt work. — 00:02:26
- 2019-09-06 · Life Advice Q&A with my Brother — recommendation: Ali: For students starting out without extra skills, Ali recommends tutoring: it is very easy to do and uses your academic skills. — 00:10:01
- 2019-09-06 · Life Advice Q&A with my Brother — Ali: Soon after teaching himself to code, Ali did freelance work online, making a few websites and earning a few hundred pounds. — 00:10:01
- 2019-09-06 · Life Advice Q&A with my Brother — Taimur Abdaal: As a teenager Taimur did psychic readings on Fiverr for five dollars each and made about a hundred dollars. (hedged) — 00:10:01
- 2019-09-06 · Life Advice Q&A with my Brother — ask: Ali says that if viewers comment that they are interested, they will make another video in which Taimur shares his technique for psychic readings. (playful) — 00:10:35
- 2019-09-06 · Life Advice Q&A with my Brother — Ali calls getting a Kindle the single most worthwhile investment of his life, except maybe getting a camera, with which he started his YouTube channel. — 00:10:35
- 2021-04-22 · The 4 Hobbies that Improved my Life — Ali, who through school and university prepared sessions to teach the year below what he had just learned, sees his YouTube channel as the same teaching hobby at a bigger scale. — 00:17:45
- 2021-04-22 · The 4 Hobbies that Improved my Life — Ali: SixMed, Ali's first business at university, was entirely based on teaching and changed his life. — 00:18:09
- 2021-04-22 · The 4 Hobbies that Improved my Life — Ali's main insight from teaching: you don't need to be an expert to help someone, and no one cares about qualifications as long as you provide value to them. — 00:18:09