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You make good points. There is nothing wrong with being passionate about diving. I still am after 10 years of teaching it and made some great friends while doing it. I would have loved to have done it for a career and still would if you could make enough money at it to sustain a reasonable (note I said reasonable, not extravagant) living at it. I put in ten years of teaching, working in a dive shop, repairing regs, doing dives with the lifeguards and San Diego Sherriff�s and put about $20,000 of my own money into equipment and supplies to teach scuba. And you know what? The best job I can get is for about $16,000 a year. My point is that diving instructors are talented individuals and you have to put a lot of personal time and sacrifice to earn their stripes. And this is the best living that you can make? The way the industry is structured right now is a complete joke. Ask any instructor if you can make money in it. You can�t. Unless you hook up as a manufacturers rep. They haven�t raised prices in 50 years!!!!! It is a stagnant industry. I know. I worked in it for 13 years. --- "Mcinnis, Don" <Don.Mcinnis@in*.co*> wrote: > 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'. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.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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