Today, by the numbers

2 cups of coffee
8 Coke Zero's
9 hours straight of teaching/training

I was gonna go for another Coke Zero but I held back.  Sometimes my restraint impresses me.

Going into to today I thought I would have one group of people for one training session and a different group for another.  Nope.  It was a group of totally new people and they were with me for six hours.  I felt bad for them;  *I* don't want to listen to me for six hours.

Anyhow, it went well.  In fact, training was fun compared to students who returned from spring break looking like zombies.  On Thursday I have an interview for a training position in Abu Dhabi.  I have very mixed feelings about the position.  A year ago I wouldn't have considered it because I love teaching.  For me teaching is like a drug and I get my fix by standing in front of a group of students.

My experience in training over the past six months has made me reconsider.  In training I am working with people with actual work experience.  Teaching a management class to students who have never worked is like teaching physics; I'm teaching something that sounds like theory to them.  Teaching management concepts to those with real-world experience is much more fun.  (This is why I liked teaching at Hamilton - where most students held a job - more than at Coe... Most Coe students never had more than a summer job.)

The good news about going for this interview is that I'm perfectly OK if it all falls through.  From what I know it would be a chance to be part of a new, growing organization.  The chance to develop something new is very exciting!  But if it doesn't work out my gig of teaching and training on the side is a pretty sweet deal.