Mo2vation once bubbled...
Its interesting to read through this thread - maybe there are others that deal with that subject...the whole "what next, isn't there more to this, what do I do now..." thing.
SSi, and I;m sure others, have given significant thought to what they would consider a logical succession of events - as training progresses, and experience grows, maybe you branch off to teaching, or leading, or technician, rescue, etc.
Some of these classes or "skills" certianly were set up with a career in diving in mind. Some of us may want that, some of us just may want ot be safer, more knowledgable divers without leaving our current careers and/or dealing with students or the politics / business issues of an LDS.
If this whole what next thing has been done to death, then I apologize for bringing it up again - but the time is coming soon for me personally when I'm going to have to re-evaluate my overall dive objectives:
* be a diver with mad game (skilled, competent, confident, controlled, experienced, etc.)
* be a skilled and educated diver (extended classroom training combined with mad game...)
* be in diver leadership (teaching, leading, presenting, selling, owning, etc...)
...or some variation of above. For now, I'm enjoying gaining the experience and focusing on the skill excellence. I want some more classroom stuff as well to build knowledge that will support my objectives - I'm just not solid on what my objectives are yet.
K