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Thursday, April 29, 2010

The satisfaction comes

Whether or not the test is indeed easy.

Albeit the fact that it was just 6 questions with no complexity.

It is still worthy of a small celebration because it is afterall the first test that he passed :D Hopefully with this comes more of such cases.

Ah, nothing can compare with the satisfaction. Not even when the teachers beside me yesterday were staring at me wondering, I guess, if I'm a fellow teacher. HAHA. Nope, no stacks of worksheets to mark :p

And this reminds me why I got into this entire business in the first place.

6 years ago, I was just someone who wanted to earn some fast cash. At 25/hr, it was a lot at that time even if I only go for 2 times a week. But of course, the first student is normally an epic fail because I was not sure what to teach, and not to mention at J2 my knowledge of chemistry was, whilst not zilch, definitely not quite up to par for teaching.

6 years ago, I also took up the greatest challenge of all after my A levels - and still remains a challenge to me. Whilst I'm glad I'm part of the group whom she will actually tell her true feelings to, the curriculum wise is really, really, a huge headache.

5 years ago, I completed the first student in my life and received rather dismal results - but yes, that was because I was incompetant.

In NUS life, was coaching Tanna and group off and on, as well as Shermaine (duh).

2 years ago, received some students from Karen, as well as started out with Mr Quah's son. Quite a year because I managed to pull some dismal results (note: E8) up all the way to B3, as well as a couple of others. Though half the credit belongs to the Physics side.

1 year ago, more students somewhat. Forgot how they came about. Taught the first N tech even though I have completely no idea what N tech science was about. - Thanks to Daniel. Haha. Susian was a darling though.

This year, giving some free (or almost free) help to 2 people, another one who is finally opening up, and Mr Quah's second son. He must have trusted me enough. Speak about tutoring his daughter when she needs it too - and she is only in Pri 5. How ironic. Haha. 

Right now I've moved from being incompetant to competant (or so I hoped). Still have questions that baffle me, but at least logic solves it. (Chemistry, to me, is like logic. At least it's more logical than any other sciences. -_-)

It explains why I've never left the tuition scene - the sense of satisfaction greatly outweighs any other factor. Yes - even the money - for I quite earn peanuts now tutoring. Despite coming into this business BECAUSE of money.

And I have my bestie cousin to thank, for allowing Samantha into my life and sparking off everything else that followed (:

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