I had to laugh at your description of "dribble-cup reporters".
It's a good thing for you to have some passion about what you do. That will make you very good at it.
One thing that sets me off is the state of education I see in this country now. As a retired school teacher, I am so often appalled to see the many examples of educational failure among both high school and college graduates.
We have hired several recent college graduates, all with good grades and resumes, for our business. We learn too late that most of them cannot write a simple declarative sentence. I spend many evenings proof reading and editing their correspondence, reports, projects, etc. It saddens me.
Again, thanks for taking the time to answer my question about NEST.
And I wish you well on those college grads of today, who possess less actual edjumicashun that high-schoolers of the 80's!
And yet they pay $100,000 for that edjumicashun, and probably will make more than they will ever deserve.
Hope your OTJ training doesn't give them the skills they can market elsewhere for more $$$, if so, maybe you ought to charge for it instead of paying them to leard skills they should already have!