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Teaching others about computers can be an extremely rewarding experience. In both big cities and small towns, courses are being offered for students with varying levels of computer expertise. They can range from "BASIC For Poets" to "Advanced LISP" to "The Computer and Literature." You can teach a coursc In applications software concentrating on any of the common spreadsheet, word-processing, or imcgrated-soft-ware packages.
Contact users' groups, colleges and universities, high schools, adult-education centers, after-school centers, computer camps, and alternative learning centers to find out about available positions.
You can also create your own course and contact various schools that might be interested. I know one woman who designed a technical writing curriculum and then "sold" it to a local technical college. Teaching also gives the potential moonlighter plenty of social contact. One friend who taught a course on the "C" programming language (and didn't charge a cent) wound up with a lot of freelancc programming work as a direct result of the class.
Have computer, will travel? Travel to people's homes, like an old-fashioned country doctor. Get them ""up and running" or offer to customize and/or give instruction on a particular application. If being a "homebody" is more your style, you can conduct informal "hands on" computer workshops in your own home. (Note, however, that becausc most neighborhoods arc zoned as "residential." any business-oriented traffic heading into your home may upset neighbors and local authorities.)
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