i already have this information... in fact we may have talked about it at some point, i am not going to post it here. i had planned to certify starting october. i hadn't counted on getting depressed, let alone this depressed.
even among "difficult" students, i've found only a couple that were truly "hostile" and it didn't have to do with me. other difficult students often have special needs of different kinds. what i found worked well was just to be alert to the individuals, try to identify those needs and get the student past any specific hurdles. if one succeeds this leads to a metamorphosis in a "difficult" student.
development doesn't enrich anyone other than people who are already in top jobs bla bla bla. teaching enriches students, and the teacher as well if s/he is receptive to it. but even if there were no learning on the teacher's part, the process is aimed at having students walk out with more than they had going in, and not in material terms. this is the rewarding part.

i don't find much reward in resolving bugs other than my boss might get off my butt for 5 whole minutes. that's the other thing about development. they always want everything working perfectly, fully-featured... but they want it yesterday which puts you in a double bind between slipping the deadline (heads roll) and hacked solutions, where any hope of clean design goes out the window. And then, low and behold you have inexplicable "show-stoppers" bugs (heads roll). it's a horrible feeling. some people i know love the "challenge" - i don't.

the work environment is so different from the academic one. well, i survived it for a while, anyway.

love

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