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At 08:55 AM 12/10/97 -0500, Jim Cobb wrote: >The principles taught in hogarth-style tech diving are directly >applicable to brand new divers. Doing it right can be done from the >start. The status quo is the easy way to go, the insurance companies are >happy, the publishers are happy, the less than average instructors are >happy. Why rock the boat? Jim- I agree with you on the hogarth style all the way. What I was talking about is the idea that these new divers should be introduced to technical knowledge to begin with and that idea sucks if you rally think it out (if you overload them then they don't remember the important issues). > >>PADI is in the business to make money but most instructors are in it for >>more noble reasons. > >HAHAHAHAHA, you must be joking! Most instructors have bills to pay, >families to maintain and are either trying to make a living doing >something they either are capable of doing or genuinely enjoy. For those >of you instructors who genuinely in enjoy what you are doing and are >making ends meet, I am envious. The only instructors I know of that can make a real living at this are the shop owners and managers where they can generate the profits off of new sales. Most guys I know teach in their spare time and if you add up all the costs & time associated with being an instructor you end up operating for the equivalent of minimum wage. Obviously part time instructing is not a real career choice but rather a way to introduce new people to this great sport and cover the costs associated with being active in this sport (the "get the wife off my back when she sees the checkbook" idea). Figure the average instructor makes $75.00 off each ow student and you have four to six students in a class (average) thats $300.00, now figure in all the costs of personal gear, materials, licensing & insurance. Now divide this by the actual hours it takes to teach a class. Enlightening 'eh?? The only people making a real profit are the shop owners, they get a cut off the dive class and they get the gear sales. > >>Really, you can't make a real living in it unless you >>own a shop or are a very popular course director. If you don't believe so >>ask one to show you his books sometime. Obviously I'm not talking about the >>7-11 "professionals here, they are a sad exception. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html > > > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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