Imagination

If one can imagine oneself making a living, then one can find a way to make money. I am going to write an example here.

I see myself teaching a group of students very interested in understanding physics. Maybe 5, maybe 4 students. If they are really interested we can meet five times a week for two hours. If I charge them $50 for one hour I will make $10 000 a month. Not bad!

Now my problem is how to convince some students to do that. This is a problem because that is not the way physics is taught. One has to show proficiency and be accepted in a university, then some tenured professor teaches a group of students. Since I do not have tenure, I have a problem.

I used to have tenure in Mexico but they only paid me $700 a month.

Imagination has to be used again.

There are more than three hundred million Americans, at least half are young. Assuming one of every ten wants to study Physics, we have fifteen million young people. Conservatively let us take fifteen hundred students I can convince to study Physics under my guidance, then I can charge much less to get those $10 000 a month. Now each has to give me almost seven dollars a month. This seems more realistic.