Ballroom Dancing

I used to work at Arthur Murray dance studios as a teacher.
I came in looking for a position as a secretary and ended up being good enough to teach.
They trained me to dance, to teach, and to sell. At first I really liked the position I had, but as time whent on I became more and more defiant. It wasn't that I worked fourty hour weeks with no pay to show for it, it wasn't all the dancing or dealing with people(I loved that part), it was the people that I worked with, and the way they looked at our clients(Walking sacks of money).
We spent at leas an hour a day learning about ways to get people to say yes when they really want to say no.
These lessons cost $130/45minutes.
That's more expensive than SMU. Think about it. I had to sell these lessons by the dozen.
It took me all too long to realize that I was working for scam artists because... they're really good at it.
After nine months of living like this, I said, "I can't do this. This isn't me. I can dance anywhere", I broke the bigest rule they had(NO STUDENT TEACHER FRATRANIZATION), and left.
It was the one great thing that came out of this; meeting my girlfriend with whom I have been for five years.
I did enter several competitions while working there. I grabbed a third place prize for my cha-cha/hip hop routine.