I work here at a local technical school, teaching students about heating and cooling systems.
- I’ve been doing this for ten years, and I love the job as much now as I did way back when I first started it all those years ago.
I appreciate meeting all of the new people, the new students who come through every session. I find people to be really interesting, so it’s always fun to teach the new students and then try to find out what makes them tick. Teaching them new ways of thinking and all kinds of facts about the heating and cooling systems they are going to be working on fascinates me. Technically, I am just supposed to be teaching them the basics of the HVAC world, but usually I end up going deeper into it just because I appreciate it so much. Teaching HVAC classes is something that snuck up on me. I never thought that it would be something that I would be doing at this point in my life, but I really actually appreciate it. It’s empowering to see all of these young people come out of my classes knowing how to do some things that they didn’t know how to. One of these days here soon after I retire, I bet that I will end up with an HVAC supplier that I taught. I like to see the look on their faces whenever they show up at my apartment to repair my boiler or my cooling system!