captain
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Am I what?
In it for the money.
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Am I what?
If I could make $30,000 a year from it, I would give up my other sources of income and do it full time.In it for the money.
If I could make $30,000 a year from it, I would give up my other sources of income and do it full time.
I would never even think of doing that.If you tried to generate twice as many students by shortening your course so you could make $60,000 a year
I don't think $60,000 dollars a year qualifies as an excellent businessman!you would be an excellent business man.
No, I wouldn't be able to live with myself but anyhow that's just not the way I am, so it's a nonstarter.If you could hand out cards to divers with incomplete training. Could you live with yourself?
The PADI "thang" bores me. All members of the RSTC are in the same boat. Most of us (Recreational Instructors who bother to spend time here on the board) would love to be teaching supercourses to future superdivers. Frankly, I'm happy with my agency. Would I like to be able to put more in to an OWD syllabus? Sure, but there are no customers for that in this neck of the woods. In fact if I wasn't a PADI Instructor I wouldn't get to teach a thang. Just a point in case, yesterday I was asked what I was going to do this weekend and before I could reply, the same guy who asked me the question said: " Now I remember, you're teaching THE PADI, right?".That's how some of us look at PADI.
I would never even think of doing that.
I have never handed out an OW card to anyone whose skills I was not totally happy with.
just my humble yet correct opinion
ScotSAC in Scotland