So.. it says 5 years of service here in AGK
but
actually, I had another account named haliop and I'm guessing it gives me a bit more years on AppGameKit and a bit more on DarkGDK (C++ old SDK which made it incredibly easy to move on to AGK)
I HAVE STARTED TEACHING KIDS IN PRIVATE TUTORING about game development
and well yeah.. obviously I'm using AppGameKit TIER 1 since it is super simple to understand.
currently, I have only one student, 10 years old.
I live in Israel and he just started learning English so it takes some time just to get the hang of it.
He totally surprised me at the first lesson when we started discussing Random with Min and Max values, like how.. could 10 years old grasp the concept? the first lesson was amazing.
and this is what I wanted to share with you:
if you have enough experience, TEACH TEACH TEACH!!! and yeah TEACH kids, why?
because as we grow up we become very critic about anything, but when you are a kid and you are eager to learn, you automatically ask the right questions as there are no Wrong answers while learning.
obviously, I don't offer a job like some schools do as these are kids ranged from 8 to 15/16 maybe 17/18 (they can learn for themselves they don't really need me if they understand the power of Youtube/ Stackoverflow/ Google etc..
and it is good money.
for 1.5 hours of lesson, I charge about 30 $, I don't know about your country minimum salary but here in Israel its about 8 $ per hour, that is a huge difference.
not even mentioning the huge smile on the kids face once the lesson is over since we just built a small game by his or her demands.
the first lesson grew up to be 2.5 hours which summed up at 45$.
When I left the room, his father asked me how much time did you teach him today? i answered 2.5 hours and he was amazed you could have seen it on his face. he said, " once this kid gets home from school he does not sit for more than 10 minutes to study."
if I look backward and for the future, I think that AppGameKit just found my work for life.
there are no words that can stimulate what I'm feeling right now.
so I'm guessing, a sincere thank you for all the hard work that TGC TEAM MEMBERS are doing.
THANK YOU.
p.s
if everything goes well, I will open a school.