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Why did you decide to become a teacher?
2:50 with TreehouseMichael Noga from the Facebook group asks, "What made you want to teach and not just be a designer or developer?"
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[Treehouse Teacher Q & A]
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[Question: What made you want to teach and not just be a web designer or developer?]
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[Jason Seifer] Actually, funny story.
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I just checked the wrong box on the job application,
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and I sort of fell into this. But I like it. It's fun.
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[Nick Pettit] So, I just really love sharing knowledge, I think.
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I think a lot of people in the web industry do,
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because there's so many podcasts, there's so many speakers
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that travel around the conferences.
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People write lots of books.
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There's just this whole culture of sharing information,
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and I think the web is a big catalyst for that,
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but that's sort of spilled over into other mediums. I don't know.
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I just really enjoy sharing what I know with people.
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[Allison Grayce] I think I'll always consider myself a web designer,
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but I think what made me want to take on this job
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is just that I wish there had been someone there for me
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to tell m all of these things and teach me all of these things.
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I think just having the ability to be that person was a really great opportunity.
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[Amit Biljani] I actually accidentally started--
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I mean, I had my own startup where I was training my employees.
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That when I realized that I loved teaching.
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I actually had a knack for it,
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and I had a passion for it.
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Just to see the other person get that "Aha" moment and say like,
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"Hey--wow--I learned something, and you taught me."
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That was huge for me, and from then on I've just been on this path
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that I really want to teach people.
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[Jim Haskins] It's really hard to say.
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I've been a developer, and I think I kind of discovered in my last job
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I love learning about new technologies.
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I spent a lot of time teaching these new technologies to my coworkers,
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including Nick at the time.
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So, I was spending a lot of time trying to teach these new things
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that are helping me develop to all my coworkers.
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I really enjoyed that, and that kind of continued through
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when we did a podcast called DocType, which ended up being a lot of tutorials
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and kind of lead into this job.
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I think for me it's because the way that I learn is through teaching,
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and even in myself when I'm trying to learn a concept
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I kind of do it by in my head explaining it to myself as I was teaching it to myself
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and what I do at Treehouse is sort of an extension of that.
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I learn something and then I take that internal teaching and just do it on camera.
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And that's how I learn too.
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[Treehouse]
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