[plug] linux tutor

[John Summerfield]

> Grant Heazlewood wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know anyone who tutors in Linux, I steadily losing my grip
> > after reading mountains of documentation and having little success with
> > simple tasks such as networking linux and windows boxes etc.
> >
> > Grant
> 
> The other day I received an invitation from some kind hearted soul to
> attend a short seminar on some nebulous aspects of M$ NT4.  The best part
> was that it had been discounted to a mere $1950:00c or thereabouts!

and if it improves performance of a $40 000 employee by as little as 10%, 
it's good value.

The objective of these courses is to earn money, and preparing & 
presenting them is expensive.

I know it's not a lot of consolation to those of us looking for cheap 
training: the reality is that businesses must turn a profit: otherwise 
they don't remain businesses.

If someone wants a reasonable return on their time, they have to charge 
enormous up-front mounts, like that $2000, ro cover the time in preparing 
the course. In the case of the course I mentioned, I knew the subject 
well, but still spent almost a week beforehand learning the course itself: 
even that was a modest amount of time.


It is true that had I presented the course more than once, I'd have 
amortised my time; it's also true that it was a course IBM used a lot, but 
still those fees have to cover the venue costs, the equipment (everyone 
had a PC, and although I didn't have to install the software, I might have 
needed to).


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Cheers
John Summerfield
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