Teaching is Exhilarating
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Someone asked me this morning if I'd really be willing to up-roots and move to another country to teach in a university.  This evening I would definitely say yes.  There's something so attractive about taking a block of knowledge and organizing it so that other people can understand it.

Anyway, have been working on the presentation for PyCon on profiling.  Rather having fun.

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  1. Nick

    Nick on 02/23/2009 5:06 a.m. #

    You're absolutely right, Mike. The fact that I get a buzz from teaching is largely the reason why I've stuck with it for so many years, rather than succumbing to the temptation of a more lucrative job in industry.

    A secondary reason is that, in an academic setting, you often have more freedom to explore the use of different tools and technologies than you would in a commercial environment.

  2. Mike Fletcher

    Mike Fletcher on 02/23/2009 11:40 p.m. #

    It's not so much the tools/techs that interest me, as the freedom in projects, the chance to explore wholly new areas. I get reasonable latitude in choosing tools with my clients (normally), but when the task is "build yet another accounting/invoicing system"... well, the tools are only so much fun :) .

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