Reluctant entrepreneur quits one keyboard for another

Three years ago, Andy Palpant was an information technology manager at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. He supervised more than 100 employees and made a six-figure salary. He was laid off, tried some consulting, then listened to his wife, who runs a dance studio near their home in Stockbridge, Ga.

He put up posters offering piano lessons.

Now Palpant teaches four days a week and loves it. “It’s the most satisfying thing I’ve done,” he says.

He charges only $20 per lesson, so the family income is about half what it was. But he’s found you can still live pretty comfortably on half of a six-figure income.

Besides, he says, the satisfaction of helping a kid get into a music school or nail an audition is better than money. “I wouldn’t go back to my old job for twice the pay.”

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