Is home tutor worthwhile?
By szz1990602
@szz1990602 (188)
China
September 17, 2011 10:19am CST
I have been a home tutor for two years and I regard it as a decent way to earn extra money. But now, as a junior student, I have to recognize that except for money, I can't learn some skills available. I really have no idea whether should I quit this part-time job. In other words, wich is more important: money or social experience? By the way, I'm paid approximately 6 dollars per hour, so how much are you paid per hour?
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4 responses
@sumitn (94)
• India
18 Sep 11
hiiiiiii i am also working as a home tutor and infact i have been working as home tutor for 3 years in india.here i am getting apprx 3 dollars/hour............social experience is always greater than money but i dont think that u should quit the job........yes u can reduce some time and still can learn some skills.a person's actual growth starts when he/she start earning.......SO KEEP IT UP......
@sjvg1976 (41289)
• Delhi, India
17 Sep 11
Hello Szz,
I don't think its bad to be a home tutor as its a good part time job.I have been a home tutor when i was in college i used to earn $2~3 at that time but it was fine to have that much money.
I always wanted to be a teacher but my parents did not as they knew that a teacher earns little as compared to engineers/doctors so they made me an engineer but i always wanted to be teacher because for me even today money is not at all important 
than the social experience but the irony is we cannot live without money.
I always wanted to be a teacher but my parents did not as they knew that a teacher earns little as compared to engineers/doctors so they made me an engineer but i always wanted to be teacher because for me even today money is not at all important than the social experience but the irony is we cannot live without money.
@GemmaR (8517)
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17 Sep 11
I think that it very much depends on the child in question whether home tutoring would be good for them or not. For me, I don't think that I would have been able to cope with the one to one attention so it wouldn't have suited me at all, however I am perfectly sure that there are a lot of other children who would be suited to the kind of teaching technique that one to one tuition would be able to bring to them. Without a doubt though, there are a growing number of people who would like to take up an offer like that, although I would be willing to pay around double that amount per hour for my children to be taught on a one to one basis.
@Dymo75 (340)
• New Zealand
17 Sep 11
I always regarded tutoring as a very fulfilling job, and I myself would be quite willing to do a bit for no pay. (For me, science, maths, and maybe computing :/) But if tutoring is a serious source of income, then it might be different. After doing learning economics, I've come to learn about opportunity costs, and that's what you have to take in mind.
So if tutoring is a source of income for you, then you might want to consider what else you can do for money. If it's more of a socialising thing than money, then why not stay?
