tekkydiver
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My .02 FWIW. The way the industry is going, here is where I believe more and more dive shops will be advertising
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having met them both at Atlantis Aquatics dive shop a few months back, I can say that he is telling the truth...(your girl was trying on fins)My girlfriend is a professional figure skater with an amazing physique and barely enough body fat to sustain health.
I think this may reveal an essential issue: In order to maintain the infrastructure (boats, dive sites, training facilities, gear manufacturers, educators, etc.) that makes it possible for us all to dive with the freedom and access that we enjoy, we must have a lot of divers. However, diving doesn't hold a strong enough attraction to a high enough number of people to allow for instructors to charge what they're really worth.
You make diving attractive to more of the masses you need to attract by cheapening it, in multiple senses of the word. If dive professionals could earn what they rightfully should, there would be far fewer incoming divers and no "industry" in any real sense of the word. Those of you who do this for a living get paid at the miserable level you do because that's all the market will bear. It's not fair, it just is.
having met them both at Atlantis Aquatics dive shop a few months back, I can say that he is telling the truth...(your girl was trying on fins)
not sure if you remember, but I'm the guy who has a house right up the road from you...
I'm in Mexico for the winter, but maybe Ill see you at Dutch again this summer....
LOL! Awesome! I'll trade you a a figure skater with an awesome body for a winter in Mexico. Or, would you like to move from DM to instructor and rake in the big bucks?
BTW, remember I bought the used IDI fins for my girlfriend because nothing else in the shop met the equipment requirements for DIR/Tech/Cave diving? I'm so outta shops in my area I need to open my own.
So, how much would you charge me as a life coach so I can get out of diving and find a different way of life that will still allow me to be happy and fulfilled doing what I love and pay my bills?
LOL! Awesome! I'll trade you a a figure skater with an awesome body for a winter in Mexico. Or, would you like to move from DM to instructor and rake in the big bucks?
BTW, remember I bought the used IDI fins for my girlfriend because nothing else in the shop met the equipment requirements for DIR/Tech/Cave diving? I'm so outta shops in my area I need to open my own.
However, diving doesn't hold a strong enough attraction to a high enough number of people to allow for instructors to charge what they're really worth.
. When you are valued as a dive educator like the fry cook at a fast food chain ... I mean ... seriously?