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How the times change. My scuba course cost me $30 back in 1973. My instructor worked for the state of Washington by day and having his basement diveshop was his "passion". Full rental gear was $5 a day for students (past & present) and $10 a day for all others. He did it to get people diving and was just as possionate about making sure that the divers he turned out into the water were capable and qualified. Don -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Connell [mailto:kevin@nw*.co*] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 10:23 AM To: dmdalton Cc: cavers@ca*.co*; techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: Re: Reality was Re: Reality Sucks for the "old timers" At 11:49 PM 4/12/2000 -0400, dmdalton wrote: >My sons lessons 3 years ago cost $325 but the instuctor (a personal friend >of mine) only got $40 of that fee. When I taught (73-80) I used to get $40 >per student out of a $200 course fee. This instructor, who works for me >under contract as an investigator @ $30 an hour said if he got that hourly >rate to teach diving he figured he would make close to $3,000 per class. >People spend $3,500 - $5,000 to learn to fly and would do the same to learn >to dive except for what I call "Dalton's Law of Stupid Supply" which states >"There is no end to the supply of stupid people willing to do something for >an ever decreasing amount of money, if the ego gratification is sufficient!" Also known as "non monetary rewards" Almost all teachers have the same problem - they value teaching in other ways than money - Although most scuba instructors realize this, most other teachers are too stupid to realize this, and then complain about their low wages. Hello. "Kevin's law of shut up you stupid bleeding hearts" - Nobody holds a gun to your head and makes you go to work rant mode off. ---------------------------------- Kevin Connell <kevin@nw*.co*> NW Labor Systems, Inc http://www.nwls.com Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. (plurality should not be posited without necessity - Occam's razor) ---------------------------------- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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