America is the greatest venue in the world, even if the government does muck it up sometimes.
I was the private school PE professor around here for a few years, but then they closed the school.
This town was just too small, there wasn’t enough of a tax base to spend my money for a school, so all the professors got reassigned to other districts, and the men all were bussed to the next town over. I didn’t get reassigned, I was too close to retirement, although I wasn’t ready to stop being a coach yet, so I decided to open up my own gym. The people I was with and I are not talking about a major gym here, it’s definitely just one massive room with a couple of bathrooms and showers at either end. I have enough component to make sure the men who want to keep weight training can do so, even if it isn’t the fanciest component in the world. I run multiple classes every afternoon, just basic stuff, along with yoga once a week. I have been asked about adding on a cross fit gym, but unless I get a major investment that will not happen; Something is better than nothing, I figure, so a little gym with a few pieces of component is better than no gym at all, right? What I loved about teaching gym and PE was helping young people develop healthy habits and stay in nice shape, now I can do the same thing, only it is inside my own gym, and where else in the world could a man do that?