great starting place - Sales Associate Music & Arts Employee Review

-hands off management -freedom to teach how I want -laid-back environment -music books from the store available to use in lessons -management will find and match students to your schedule, all you have to do is teach

-pay was about 33% lower than the average for teaching privately on my own -don't get paid when students cancel (as far as I remember) -only had a few students at a time which never grew higher, though this was just my personal experience. I think it's more tied to my area (not a lot of arts funding in schools or disposable income from parents, interest in lessons lean heavily toward guitar and wind instruments). Other teachers at my location seemed to have a decent amount of students.

Teachers and sales employees who actually work in retail locations tend to be passionate & knowledgeable about music. Stores open later in day (11am-8pm weekdays) which is nice if you're a night owl or hate waking up early. Good employee discounts on products.

Inflexible corporate policies & attempts to standardize procedures across stores in wildly different markets makes it impossible for store-level management & employees to deliver well on expectations of upper management & customers. Store managers who work in store full time have no real authority, influence, or decision-making power, whereas district managers (who visit each location once a month at best) have to pass on orders from even higher level management that may have never even stepped foot in the store. They will start you at as close to legal minimum wage as they can get by location, and even the hourly pay for store managers is absolutely criminal compared to the amount of work & complexity of operations required. Commission structure is also highly flawed.