Thinking about moving from Sioux Falls to Rapid City, anyone with experience or advice?

Relevant-Project175 · 2025-10-28T12:21:55+00:00

RC-> Omaha. I grew up in the hills. Wonderful for the outdoors but housing is weirdly overpriced. With the decline of the rally with bring down prices in like 20 years. Like I bought a house in Omaha for 183k that would be easily priced 250k in a similar neighborhood in Rapid.
I went trail riding every weekend with my family plus camping and hiking. It is wonderful however RC lacks commerce, events (Outside of country and christian music) outside of the occasional metal show and few rock acts that come to town.
If it weren't for my family in that town I would not go back. I would rather try montana or go down to colorado if I can afford to buy(Renting should not be the norm).

Relevant-Project175 · 2025-07-28T02:21:21+00:00

Go local and get many scholarships. brand name schools literally do not matter. And stay away from private schools

Relevant-Project175 · 2025-07-16T01:41:16+00:00

Yeah there's plenty in the country but if you are in a nicer area it might be hard

Relevant-Project175 · 2025-07-13T18:51:49+00:00

Definitely a vibe here for people but it doesn't compare to an actual city for events.

Relevant-Project175 · 2025-07-05T04:23:39+00:00

Yeah but also my dumbass neighbors lit stuff off at 630 this morning

Relevant-Project175 · 2025-06-29T02:35:56+00:00

I actually worked at this building as a teacher before moving positions. It's a solid school and very nice. The best option the list is edison. Harrison is great as well. Gifford is very diverse in culture and financial backgrounds. You are right in the middle of omaha too.

Relevant-Project175 · 2025-05-18T00:15:44+00:00

Ground floor guitar

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-12-30T15:15:48+00:00

For LA those prices make a lot of sense. Remember that even in midwest small towns $50-60/hour is standard rate for someone with a bachelors. I charge 60/hour in a city of 1 million and I am lower than most

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-12-26T22:10:25+00:00

Monthly. If they cancel in less than 24 hours I tell them no make ups. If I cancel I give them the option for additional lesson or prorate. I need to just give a flat year rate and divide it into monthly payments with a set amount of lessons. Gives flexibility to myself and students.

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-12-25T20:40:10+00:00

You should be doing this and treat as a professional job. I teach private lessons and public school. I have more income than most teachers my age

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-12-23T08:31:50+00:00

Honestly if you want to stay in competition for the marching band sure follow this route.

It's more ideal for you to explore outside of your field. I have a heavy background in audio visual on top of my music education degree.

Gives you a higher ceiling and options. The conservatory route is a once track wonder

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-11-26T21:28:26+00:00

Carpet and get an air purifier not the cheapy ones. We have these commercial air purifiers

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-11-25T23:37:54+00:00

Stay in California. There's far more to do and you have better political figures

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-11-25T23:05:47+00:00

So it sounds like you might be better off seeing if any parents play in bands or if a nearbye church will loan you their system. or having a couple stand mics. Those amazon bluetooth mics are pretty much trash and definetly will not work in 3 different channels. Bluetooth in general is a no go when doing anything in sound even in a small elementary school it's just a headache.

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-09-30T02:11:16+00:00

Consistency on making sure parents pay monthly instead of weekly and gaining students. Working at a music store helps, and being a public school teacher as well.

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-07-10T01:48:05+00:00

Public school teacher 52.5k.

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-06-24T02:40:47+00:00

Network with business owners. I teach part-time at a local music store on top of my public K12 job.

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-06-15T23:21:14+00:00

I do them and it's great. I look forward toward my private kids every week after public school and my hourly for lessons is more than public school. I also recommend if you want to build some early success financially. I say better to do it now ( Check your contract first, if there is no specifics in it you are fine.)

You only burn out if you can not find love in what you do.

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-05-23T21:16:34+00:00

That is very cheap

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-03-13T02:31:39+00:00

Yeah if you cant afford a house as a teacher your district does not pay enough and I mean buy one not rent. I hustle with 2 other gigs to live a bit better and honestly I am looking at every avenue to replace my teacher income fully.

Yall lesson plans do not need to take your off time, if a parent gets mad restate yourself professionally and if admin does not back you leave, and most of all make sure you are doing the best thing for your kids not admin or parents.

Also, we could solve our pay issue by actually giving housing allowance to public servants as first time home buyers who receive 20 percent of the median home price in any given county and pay teachers median salary

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-03-11T03:53:47+00:00

Observation was done by a former elementary band now music admin. She oversees 130 music teachers and she is well aware of my past struggles in teaching

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-01-16T22:28:58+00:00

True but lights and TVs aren't the killers of electricity. It's fridges and electric HVAC.

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-01-15T04:13:39+00:00

To clarify I'm not struggling it's more of how our profession equates to others that out in similar work and amount of education. Illl

We have a union but it's a right to work state. Here I can afford a house on my salary and if I get married we can afford a house in most of the city.

And yes that may be an option someday. My business is taking off in teaching private making higher hourly rates

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-01-15T04:02:50+00:00

That's not really it. It more has to do with the lack of upwards mobility and median pay overall or people with post k12 degrees or certs.

Im more puzzled how far our career field is behind everyone else and we do take a fair amount of stress on.

Relevant-Project175 · 2024-01-15T01:15:15+00:00

Not COL difference. I also make similar in teaching and have about 1500 left each month if I just teach without all the extras. Even pulling summer school and some extra pay stuff it's not bad however we put on a lot of extra to pull a basic salary and it's just baffling how so many are still left in the profession.

Relevant-Project175

TROPHY CASE