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Jobs for Moonlighting Geeks?
BreadWinner asks: "My wife and I are adopting a baby in 2003 and it's very expensive. I work for a non-profit that can't pay me what I feel I'm worth. However, I really like my job, my boss, the time off, and my co-workers. So I'm considering moonlighting. I've done private contracting, but I don't think I can do my private clients justice when I'm working full-time. So what kind of job can I find that: I can leave at the job; maximize my $/hour? Anybody done commission-based electronics sales? I'm not an uber-geek, but I'm interested in whatever you folks at Slashdot can suggest."
Absolutely. Teaching can be good. (I do it myself) You just have to resign yourself to the fact that many of the students won't know crap and don't care as long as they get the grade so they can get the piece of paper.
I went to class to learn something - and was under the dillusion that many of the students were there for the same reason. Many of them aren't.
Once I stopped caring so much about people who didn't give a crap about the class I found that I didn't spend too many hours on the class and the pay wasn't so bad. Besides - you can spend a good number of the hours preparing class material, correcting papers, etc. at home and with the family. No you aren't as productive when you have to jump up and catch the kids before they knock over the xmas tree - but you do get to see them and interact with them at the same time.