So I accidentally got a position as a teacher for the coming year. I say accidentally because I was trying to just apply for some private lessons to pay my bills until I hopefully start a doctorate or PhD. And I also thought that becoming a proper teacher was impossible because I don't have the right degree. There is a special degree to qualify for a teaching post; I know because I've almost completed a Bachelor in it.
However, what I do have is MASTER OF COMPUTER SCIENCE. Although I would have preferred to teach math, the director wanted me to teach computer science because doing so requires a MASTER OF COMPUTER SCIENCE and since most people don't have those, the school has a lot of demand for it; apparently enough to take people who don't have a teaching degree but only a MASTER OF COMPUTER SCIENCE. I will now be teaching Computer Technik, which consists primarily of teaching students how to use Word and Excel, and a little bit of data base stuff and theory.
I don't know what the director thinks a MASTER OF COMPUTER SCIENCE entails. I know my ideas of what it entails before I got the bachelor were very wrong. Whatever the case, the overlap between it and the relevant material here is at best zero and probably negative. I don't remember ever using Excel for my modules. I definitely used less Word than before because I had to learn Latex. I also don't remember anything about data bases although in fairness this might be different if I hadn't avoided them on purpose.
Not that I'm complaining, mind you. For me, this is all pretty great. I don't yet know how much it'll pay but it'll probably be way more than the most i ever earned for private lessons. I think it would be hard to come up with a subject that requires less preparation than what I'll have to do, and it'll be small classes, so even the discipline aspect is easier than for other subjects. And I do intend to take it very seriously, prepare well, and do a good job. But it is still just silly that all of the hours agonizing over how to prove a Multi-Party computation scheme secure in full rigor which I suffered through for my master thesis now pay off by qualifying me to teach people how to use Word and Excel.