pegkerr | Thinking about karate again (Reply)

I have been thinking about resuming karate again. I was at the dojo this past Saturday, photographing the testing for the website, and I found myself longing so hard to participate again. If I did so, I could only swing it by working off my tuition by cleaning the dojo. I'd clean twice a week, an hour and a half each time, eight times a month. If I did that, they would waive my tuition entirely. Do I want to do that, to commit to three hours a week, on top of class time?

Frankly, I don't know. The thing is, if I started doing it, and then my life changes and I decided I didn't want to clean, I would be really stuck. It would be very difficult to manage the tuition payments without, for example, cutting retirement savings, which I really don't want to do.

I asked if I could try the arrangement for a month before signing a contract, just to see if it would be too onerous. That would help. Still it would be a two and a half year commitment.

I will think about it this week.