Dream Job
So, out of the blue, the company that provided my technical training after I retired from the USAF has offered me my dream job!
Overall, feeling rather blessed!
Anyone else on this forum work(ed) as an instructor? If so, any advise? Also, how many on this forum are working in their dream job right now? Was it what you expected? Lastly, if not in your dream job, what is it and why?
Cheers
- Provide CompTIA A+, Network+, and Security+ instructor led training
- 25% increase in pay over my current full-time position (or, roughly the same amount that I make with three jobs)
- Monday - Friday, night classes should I want to teach them
- No weekends (I work, usually, Sunday through Friday now)
- 15 minutes from home (instead of 45 minute to 2 hour commute, depending on traffic and weather)
- They provide training and cover certification costs for any certification they want me to get and/or teach
- Access to several instructors who hold certifications in the classes I need to take for my degree from WGU.
- More free time, so I can volunteer my time, experience, and "expertise" to local charities
- More free time to spend with my family (most family stories start out with "Remember when we...oh, wait you were deployed or working...)
Overall, feeling rather blessed!
Anyone else on this forum work(ed) as an instructor? If so, any advise? Also, how many on this forum are working in their dream job right now? Was it what you expected? Lastly, if not in your dream job, what is it and why?
Cheers
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I've not worked as an instructor, but my dad does, teaching computer science, and loves it. I'm pretty much in my dream job now, though it wasn't to start (company has been sold, bought, and I've left and come back, and transferred within the company), and it's great. Wife and I have talked regularly over offers I get from other companies, and always end up realizing there's no way it could be as good.
So have at it, and consider yourself lucky.
Congrats BTW!
@cyberscum...reach out to the local technical schools (New Horizons, for instance) and inquire. My understanding is that you can make a pretty decent living teaching those subjects (it is up to you to decide what decent is). Also, a lot of those schools have night classes, so you might add a job as a night instructor while keeping your day job.
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Overall, it seems like a perfect fit and hoping it will be as fun as I am anticipating it to be.
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I also don't like handing out labs and asking the students to complete them, instead I do all the labs with them and explain the lab as we go.. that way you avoid the situation where the students just follow the steps in the lab manual but dont really understand what they're doing. Then after completing the labs, I give them a small task to do to see how well they understand the topic.
This is something you'll learn along the way, but if you enjoy teaching, you'll be good at it.
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.....Well arnt you just mister perfect.
jk, I always commend people that help out in their spare time...I wonder to myslef, where the heck do they get the time?
Congrats and good luck!
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