I got hired as a physics tutor for a student today at a local high school. It’s allegedly AP physics, and it all looks familiar to me. I spent the afternoon going through a problem set and refreshing myself on how to solve these kinds of problems. It slowly came back to me, but I’ll probably need to keep working through it.
The most amusing thing for me, personally, was the tangible sense of relief that the people involved felt when I told them I felt up to the task of helping the student. I can only assume their prospects were so poor that they were just glad to have found anyone willing to step up to the plate.
I have to get fingerprinted for a background check, then I’ll be good to go. I won’t be hanging up my spurs as “The Stay At Home Dad” anytime soon though. But it’ll be nice to earn a little something extra, whatever it ends up being.