same here, I'm a tab reader while playing to the tune to get strumming and what not down. It's a bitch to find a teacher around here. *no clue fucking why*
I'll give you a clue. I have been a guitar teacher for several years. Here's my take on it: no more than 1 out of 10 students really want to play music. The others just want to impress their friends, hit on girls, be the live of the party or just learn one or two songs. Once they understand that the process is not as simple as they though (most of them hit that wall at one month mark), they quit and never call you again.
Now, when you finally find a committed student, you will sometimes keep him for years. Since your job is to teach him to be independent, you work against your own good: if you're a good teacher (I think I am), it wont be long before your star pupil doesn't need you anymore.
So you come before a choice: will you teach him everything you know and watch him ride into the sunset? Or will you hide some secrets so you can blackmail him into calling you back? As you might have guess, none of these solutions work.
The only way to make a living out of it is to work for a music school and take students by the dozens. Once again, when you do that, you get all the "daddy's kid" who got a guitar for X-mas and quit before Easter. You must forget about it, do your job and never, ever take it personally when a student leave or never calls you back...
Not the best of jobs, I only do it for dedicated and committed students now. No more daddy's kid even if they are the ones with the steady "paycheck" (if you want to call it that). Most committed music students are poor as hell so you must be ready to work way below your usual fee...
It's a calling, not a job.