Personally I'm against charging to teach others how to code. You want someone to teach you to code, with which you could earn $100k/yr for 30+ more years, and

Personally I'm against charging to teach others how to code. You want someone to teach you to code, with which you could earn $100k/yr for 30+ more years, and you want them to volunteer their time to do that for you? I bet you do. How many hours per week and for how long will it take someone to teach you "how to code"? Let's call it 100 hours just b/c we need to have some sort of cap. We'll use me as the example - I have a full time gig already (where I work 50-60 hour weeks), two young kids, and a wife - so my time is limited. But hey - 100 hours... Okay - let's do it. The key question is, "Do I have time to 'train' two people at the same time, or can I only train one?" Probably one person - I don't have a training room set up FFS. So now we have a bottleneck. "But, Scott, I'm talking about learning on the job - having one of your co-workers train you." Perfect - so you're working in such a great environment that your co-worker is (a) an expert coder, (b) an expert trainer, and (c) your company lets you spend 100+ hours together (200 man hours) of paid time for him to train you? Lucky you - that puts you in the 0.001%. However, if the tables were turned (you were the expert employee who is teaching the youngster), wouldn't you be getting paid to train? Maybe you would donate your next 2 1/2 weeks just so you could train this young person? Absurd statement.