[Myrddin]

I was teaching electronics at a junior college from 1980 to 1983. $21/hour, T/Th, 6:30-9:30 PM. Evening work beyond my day job as a Toll Central Office Equipment Engineer at Pacific Telephone. Sufficient to finance my fixed wing, single engine private pilot license. I enjoyed teaching the class and the Regional Occupational Program that financed the position reported 91% of my students had been hired by IBM or DEC between 1980 and 1983. They were happy with the results.

I stopped teaching the class when I moved to a software engineering job inside the company. 24x7 support with on-call and a pager. There was no way I could get from the data center in Mira Mesa to Southwestern College in rush hour traffic on time...not to mention the commute burning up the income earned.

As a Toll COE living in Chula Vista, I boarded the San Diego Trolley at 5:20 AM and arrived at work at just after 6 AM. Return trip at 4:20 PM back to Chula Vista. Dinner and a commute to the college. The transportation arrangements and job commitments changed with the new job at the data center.

[Starcitizen]

I was teaching electronics at a junior college from 1980 to 1983. $21/hour….

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Damn, most schools don’t pay much more that that now… $21 to $66 an hour currently at Palomar College based on Glassdoor (I attended there back in the 1990s)