Seadog83
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After ~10 years as a petroleum engineer, saving most of my money along side thrifty living, I've put enough away that I can basically pull a living wage from investments indefinitely. I never loved the work, super high stress, long hours, and no life beyond work which was priority #1 even above family etc.
I was always passionate about diving, and would love to take it to the next level, and am currently a DM with ~200 dives, and also started down the path of tech diving.
I have thought about becoming an instructor, but just about all my instructor friends have almost lost their diving spark if that makes sense. It's become a tiring job, 6 12 hr day, no money, and 8 months after completing my DM returning to the place I did it in Indonesia, I would say over half of the instructors had left.
Is there anyone out there who teaches purely for the fun of it, and not just becoming a cog in a machine where you need to work your ass off just to make rent? Simply from the observation of the huge turnover and listening to instructor friends complain, it just doesn't seem to be the sort of job people would do when theres no financial benefit.
The other option, and while I probably don't have the experience yet would be to buy into a dive shop or something along those lines. An acquaintance went that route, he is mid 40s, had lots of VP level jobs, but has zero interest in teaching, but is a silentish partner in an operation over there, and just goes over every couple months to do recreational tech diving.
Has any one else been in that position? How did it work out and what did you do?
I was always passionate about diving, and would love to take it to the next level, and am currently a DM with ~200 dives, and also started down the path of tech diving.
I have thought about becoming an instructor, but just about all my instructor friends have almost lost their diving spark if that makes sense. It's become a tiring job, 6 12 hr day, no money, and 8 months after completing my DM returning to the place I did it in Indonesia, I would say over half of the instructors had left.
Is there anyone out there who teaches purely for the fun of it, and not just becoming a cog in a machine where you need to work your ass off just to make rent? Simply from the observation of the huge turnover and listening to instructor friends complain, it just doesn't seem to be the sort of job people would do when theres no financial benefit.
The other option, and while I probably don't have the experience yet would be to buy into a dive shop or something along those lines. An acquaintance went that route, he is mid 40s, had lots of VP level jobs, but has zero interest in teaching, but is a silentish partner in an operation over there, and just goes over every couple months to do recreational tech diving.
Has any one else been in that position? How did it work out and what did you do?