On 5/15/2014 6:25 AM, AndyW wrote:
On 13/05/2014 17:25, Rambo wrote:

That's an interesting point Gareth, why exactly would some-one who had
such a successful career, take up teaching?

It is not uncommon for people with a successful career to look towards
teaching. I was facing redundancy this year and my plan if accepted for
VR was to go into teacher training. After 30 years + in engineering I
was looking at teaching physics or maths.
As it happened I was turned down for voluntary redundancy so I am still
in industry.

Andy

Andy, additionally, it depends on your audience. I worked for a number
of years as an instructor. But my audience was programmers for large
companies. For this audience you need experienced programmers who
really know their stuff; every other instructor I knew also had years of
experience programming in what they taught.

In this environment, you need to know the correct answer to questions
and problems. Now that doesn't mean you can't occasionally tell someone
"I don't know but I'll find out". But it means you can't do it very
often or you'll quickly lose your credibility (and any chance of a
repeat performance).

I loved the teaching (and it paid well), but I'm too old for all of the
travel (at least 75K air miles/yr. in the U.S., Asia and Europe, often
only home for a short weekend). I prefer to be home in my own bed every
night.

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