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It depends. Some people enjoy teaching, and for beer money, if you're just getting started, what's not to like?
by njs12345 14y ago
It depends. Some people enjoy teaching, and for beer money, if you're just getting started, what's not to like?
- btilly 14y agoA bit over a decade ago, that is exactly how I thought when I signed up for experts exchange to answer Perl questions. At about the same time I signed up for Perlmonks. A couple of years later I never went to experts exchange, even though they were willing to pay money. Meanwhile I was so active on Perlmonks that I had the highest earned points of anyone on the site. It turns out that I enjoy teaching exactly because I'm motivated by the interaction. Make the interaction wrong, and I'm never going to show up. OK, I will if you pay enough, but any true expert will have no shortage of people willing to pay more for their time than any junior person can ever hope to afford. Now granted, I'm an outlier. But this is a critically important problem that needs to be solved in any kind of problem/answer site.