HACKER Q&A
📣 amichail

Do more qualified teachers find their jobs less rewarding as a result?


One would expect that a teacher who needs to learn material as they teach it (and so is less qualified) would find the job more intellectually rewarding.

  👤 prosaic-hacker Accepted Answer ✓
I have been a vocational Lecturer in Computer Support (System Administration) for over a decade. Before that spent 35 years as SysAdmin (Vax, Unix[Aix,Irix...], programmer (FORTRAN real time / Webdev [LAMP Web 1.0 era], Manager of PC deployment and training (Dos and Early Windows).

I have been learning thing 5 minutes before my colleagues and coworkers my entire career and then train them. When the newness of a tech wore off I moved on.

I was rarely the best at a technology just the first. A digital Voyageur of sort (Canadian Eh!) portaging through the wilderness of new tech for everyone who followed.

Now as a teacher I am still 5 minutes ahead of my students because our industry does not sit still. Half the time teaching fundamentals that will never change (backups, backups, backups) the other half Win 10/11/Server 2022/Linux quirks.

I would say I am only qualified to learn new things and happy to do that.

👤 yuppie_scum
I imagine the reward triggered for teachers is more in the social intelligence area of the brain.