I've heard the figure "ten days a month" bandied around as a reasonable number of days to be standing in front of a class teaching, and it meshes with what I've experienced... doing more than about 12 gets really tiring. My question is this: those of you who work along these lines, what do you do on the other N days a month? Any thoughts on topics like: - how productive are you? - how training-related is what you're doing? - how much time do you need to spend hacking to stay sane? - how much time do you have to spend keeping up with mailing lists, news, websites, community stuff, etc to stay up to date in the field? I'm doing the quarterly planning spreadsheets, see, and figuring that with N trainers I can be running 10N days of training a month, total. I'm just wondering whether it's reasonable to expect them to be developing new training materials for perhaps a further 20% of their time, or what? Feh. I hate this spreadsheet crap. K. -- Kirrily Robert -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://netizen.com.au/ Internet and Open Source Development, Consulting and Training Level 13, 500 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Phone: +61 3 9614 0949 Fax +61 3 9614 0948
