Written by Marie Wittman | 06 July 2010

As the job market starts to recover, people all over the world are beginning to make career moves again.  A recent study shows more people voluntarily left their jobs than were fired or discharge for the first time since October 2008.  The study says that many individuals had felt it was too “unsafe” or “unreliable” to make a move to a new company during the turbulent economic times of late.  At PTC we have already witnessed many of our students turn economic uncertainty into opportunity. Unlike other industries, Pilates teachers were weathering the storm quite well.  So now as the economy seems to be shifting and changing and even adjusting to the new reality, how might we as a teaching community adjust? In reading this study I asked myself if our teachers might be broadening their horizons and thinking of the job market as a chance to make a move. I asked two PTC graduates and one soon-to-be graduate to write about how they re-imagined their lives with Pilates.  Their responses were so wonderful I have made this into a three part series.

I hope you will find their stories as interesting and as inspiring as I did. And please feel free to post your thoughts or share your stories on our Facebook page.

Here is Julie Gustafson’s story:

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