Tutoring Tutors for Happiness

When I, like many other students, was looking for jobs as a student living in Munich or in Duesseldorf (Germany) I had several jobs to earn the money for my living and studying costs. I did social work, worked at a gas station and was programming computers at University (which was paid poorly though the people were nice!) - luckily a good friend of mine asked me to give some Grammar lessons for his cousin. At first I was hesitating because I had never done this before, but since I had learned how to learn I thought I could surely contribute to the learning abilities of his cousin. That was the first time I worked as a private tutor if I leave alone all those hours with my little brothers and sisters (2 of each) who needed help from time to time (or my mother needing help keeping them at the desk). Well, that was a start. Then followed years of experience with tutoring subjects like English, maths, German grammar and writing, text analysis, French, Physics and even a little chemistry and religion as far as I remember. From year to year I was able to teach more subjects since starting with 2 subjects only, every new student made me learn more and more ! :-) - finally this was a chance to remember and to rethink over all those things I had learned or should have learned at school. Actually the school hours were being paid back! :-)