Im assuming you are also a repair tech/ shop worker and earn your keep......But being JUST an instructor? No way.
Quit day job to be instructor?
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Im assuming you are also a repair tech/ shop worker and earn your keep......But being JUST an instructor? No way.
There have been many discussions of this previously. I work as a full-time instructor, but then I work in a big resort where there is a steady stream (sometimes raging torrent!) of divers. I can do this because although my income is low, so are my outgoings. I have worked in the tourist industry for pretty much all of my professional career - Thailand, Egypt, Caribbean etc. In these locations, if you work hard, it is quite easy to make a sustainable living.
It is technically possible in the so-called "developed" (haha!) nations, but then you really want to be in an area where there is a lot of diving going on. If you are living in the middle of continental USA where you might be teaching diving in a local lake, it is going to be much harder to make a living simply because you are going to spending a lot more on your living expenses.
Most of the instructors I know in the UK wourk part-time in the evenings and weekends. The income from diving is simply not enough to sustain them (at all!), however those who are full-time employees of the local dive shop are salaried and hanging on in there, but they also have a lot more to do than just instructing.
Good luck whatever you decide... I love it!
C.
It is technically possible in the so-called "developed" (haha!) nations, but then you really want to be in an area where there is a lot of diving going on. If you are living in the middle of continental USA where you might be teaching diving in a local lake, it is going to be much harder to make a living simply because you are going to spending a lot more on your living expenses.
Most of the instructors I know in the UK wourk part-time in the evenings and weekends. The income from diving is simply not enough to sustain them (at all!), however those who are full-time employees of the local dive shop are salaried and hanging on in there, but they also have a lot more to do than just instructing.
Good luck whatever you decide... I love it!
C.
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