Pros
Franchise Locations mean that your experience may vary. The work is easier than your general retail job (as far as my anxiety goes, but that maybe different for you.) Short, restricted shifts (Monday-Thursday 3:15-7:30pm and saturday 9:15-1:30pm) Allow for decent hours if you’re in school. Pretty relaxed work environment.
Cons
The curriculum is absolute garbage. It’s a burning trash heap of programming that cannot be taken outside of the “dojo” or the facility. The first belt is fine, but the 2nd through 4th belts begin with javascript, which is a complex and clunky language not designed for building games. In the later belts it goes into Lua (which they could/should have started with) and then goes into Unity, which uses C#. Additionally, the javascript curriculum cannot be taken out of the proprietary web based software, as it’s not like any programming suite i’ve ever seen. Parents are getting charged ~$400 a month for 8 hours of a scam curriculum that doesn't teach the student anything applicable in a real world situation. Additionally we are paid the minimum wage when we constantly have to go in and figure out why the curriculum is broken and other tutor-jobs in the area pay significantly more. In one of the belts, the first lesson is broken and none of us have learned enough about javascript going through the belts to get it working, and we can’t figure out if the curriculum is wrong or the Coding environment is broken. Some of these children don’t know how to read, and we’re expected- with no training -to help them learn to code. On the no training- None of us have any experience with kids, as my franchiser/boss cared more about the technical experience than the children + teaching experience. We didn’t have a first aid kit for 4 months. NONE of us are CPR certified. We’ve been through 3 center directors within the first 4 months. It’s a mess, there’s no easy way for us to contact HQ for information, one of the guides for the belts were made by other senseis (which i certainly hope they’ve been compensated for, but i doubt it) and the franchisees are the only one with access to speak to other franchises to ask for help.
