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Good question. I think there is no doubt that some gyms will have to close, so it's possible that there could be a surplus of coaches looking for work. Or, so many coaches may need to find higher paying jobs that they will leave the industry altogether. The whole thing is awful all around.
You mean because they will have found other employment in the interim?
I was thinking more because some coaches may need to find higher paying positions with full benefits. They may have a spouse who is now unemployed and need to earn more than they did through coaching.
The only people that I know that have been coaching forever either own a gym or have a spouse that has a job with benefits.
Our head coaches are a younger, married couple with kids. We live in an area with no other gyms. I worry every day that the gym will close- it’s their only livelihood. If our gym closes, it would be the end of gymnastics for the vast majority of girls in our area. We already have a decent amount of kids driving 20 mins to an hour in to our gym. Most parents would not be willing/able to drive to the next closest gyms.I have been coaching for 34 years. The only people that I know that have been coaching forever either own a gym or have a spouse that has a job with benefits. There are some couples that coach together that don’t own a gym but that is more rare. I am able to coach because of my husband. I will be able to stay a coach because of him. I don’t know what is going to happen to the younger coaches after this. On the one hand, I do believe that some gyms will shutdown but I also believe this will push coaches out the door.
We lost a family member to the virus this morning.