{"id":1442,"date":"2015-03-16T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T14:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-52-211-205-225.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2015-03-17T13:21:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T12:21:36","slug":"docent-zijn-steeds-meer-als-bijbaan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revise.ly\/es\/docent-zijn-steeds-meer-als-bijbaan\/","title":{"rendered":"Are tutors the new waiters?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graduates from Ivy League universities and other top colleges are finding jobs in Manhattan’s lucrative test-prep economy.<\/em><\/h1>\n
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\u00a0A friend of mine, Catherine Cohen, graduated from Princeton in 2013 and moved to New York City to pursue a career in comedy. She took a job as a tutor to pay the bills.”I wanted a job that would allow me to be free during the day for auditions and free late at night for rehearsals and performances,” Cohen told me.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cohen is one of what seems like a growing number of highly educated 20-somethings who have started tutoring while pursuing another career. Often this career is something in the arts, like acting or writing. Sometimes, tutors are engaged in a pre-career endeavor, such as applying to graduate school or laying the groundwork to break into a difficult industry. Like waitering and bartending\u2014my 90s stereotype of a wandering youth\u2019s job of choice\u2014being a tutor means part-time work with flexible hours. But for today’s top college graduates, it’s often easier to get part-time jobs as tutors than it is for them to work entry-level positions in food service or retail.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I needed a lot of flexibility in my schedule, and tutoring really offered me that in a way no other job could,”\u00a0said Keith Rubin, an actor and friend who got a job tutoring in Manhattan after graduating from Yale in 2012. “I had a bunch of friends who were tutors in New York when I moved here\u2014a lot of Ivy League grads pursuing careers in the arts gravitate towards tutoring for the same reasons I did.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Another reason people like Cohen and Rubin are drawn to tutoring is the high hourly rate,…<\/p>\n

Read more about it at:\u00a0http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2015\/01\/are-tutors-the-new-waiters\/384745\/\u00a0<\/a>
\nSource: The Atlantic, bij David Ludwig<\/p>\n

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Graduates from Ivy League universities and other top colleges are finding jobs in Manhattan’s lucrative test-prep economy. \u00a0A friend of mine, Catherine Cohen, graduated from…<\/p>\n

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