Why did Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling work as a private tutor in Leipzig?

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling worked as a private tutor from 1795 to 1797 to care for the sons of a noble family while they pursued their studies in Leipzig.1

This period proved to be a significant turning point in his intellectual development. While in Leipzig, Schelling attended lectures on physics, chemistry, and medicine, which led him to move beyond the philosophical system of Johann Fichte. He began to develop his own philosophy of nature, arguing that nature possesses an active development toward the spirit, rather than being merely an object subordinate to humanity.1