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66 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 21 Mar \ on: What was the job that you brought your entire self to, AskSN
I'm in the process of considering something like that. I'd like to get back to teaching on a flexible academic schedule (not the kind of rigid schedule you have to keep). I don't find the current economic research environment very rewarding, although I like doing some parts of it.
I probably brought the most to my job in a math tutoring center. It was an open room with students working on all different levels of math and various other related courses. Bouncing between students struggling at completely different levels and who had totally different personalities required a lot from my analytical and interpersonal capacities.
Teaching on an ad-hoc basis would be nice. It’s like being a full-time part-timer. Meeting different students, gathering different experiences.
The math tutoring centre sounds fun but insane. Since we practise streaming here, I always teach students who are of similar capabilities in the same class. I don’t know if I can survive tutoring students of myriad levels within the same period of time!
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In some ways, it's similar to SN. We often have lots of parallel conversations going on on different topics, at different levels, and with different people.
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