Jesus at those tutoring jobs. I got $15 usd/hour equivalent teaching advanced high school math while at University. I knew I shouldn’t have done it through an agency!
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I got $7.50/hr when I started tutoring through my university tutoring center in 2007. It was fun, though. On my own, I charged more but it ended up being about the same, per hour of time actually spent. I think I did about the same playing online poker, over-all. I’m just a minimum wage kind of guy.
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My late-FIL also tutored through his university tutoring center.
Maybe I am your father-in-law.
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I paid a guy $65 an hour to teach me set theory. But this was for a grad course on a specialized topic. He was a math PhD and a cool guy.
My brother is an independent math tutor and basically lives in poverty.
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Cool story bro
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I charged $20/hr to tutor trig and calculus in college but did not go through university, just made some flyers. Maybe made $500 total.
I worked my way through college. I had a career day job, but I also did tutoring through the university tutoring department.
All the time, and when I say “all the time” I mean >2, I had to have a pupil reassigned because we started fucking. Glory days.
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A smart kid I partnered with doing drop-in tutoring wanted to date a girl he was tutoring but didn’t want to run afoul of the rules. I had to point out to him he could just send her elsewhere for tutoring. If it worked out, maybe he’d have to give her free sessions. He hadn’t thought of that.
I was already too old for that kind of thing but I did make some friends.
Twitter sending me signals:
https://twitter.com/LongFormMath/status/1395426393203167234?s=20
I bet that guy would pay through the nose to get out of this session.
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Yeah, some of my jobs including grading work too.
As a practical matter, it was “reverse” A for a lay. Once we had the pupil correctly reassigned, then I can do free tutoring for my friend with benefits, and I always got them an “A”.