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Jeremy- The reason I laugh is that I have never seen a "higher reason" instructor yet. They all do it for free dives, money on the side, free/cheap trips, nailing babes, whatever. Most are pitiful narcosis junkies trying to find a way to sustain their steady supply of high PPN2's. Jim On 12/10/97 2:55 PM Jeremy Downs wrote: >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. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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