I have a little bit of experience with tutoring from TAing a senior-level CS course in college. Even at that level, there's a big need for it, and as a tutor, it feels great to see that lightbulb moment when a student suddenly groks a concept you've been working with them on. If the idea of teaching appeals to something inside of you, go for it.<p>That said, it can be a massive time sink, and very frustrating, especially for students for whom programming just doesn't click at all (and they are out there). You can probably make significantly more doing freelance work, so if you know you don't have the patience to, for instance, <i>repeatedly</i> explain that their Python script isn't working because they're trying to invoke it from the wrong directory, you might want to pass.
i'd like a system like this where instead of getting money you get labor. some sort of informal internship, if you will.<p>would be cool to connect people learning to program with mentors who are looking for contributors to their projects.
This is a pretty interesting idea and I like the idea of the site itself. What percentage of tutors get work at the rates they have posted and how many hours do they get on average? I'm curious to know if anyone is doing anything besides getting beer money (so to speak) with the site right now.
TutorSpree folks, here is a search I made in Washington, <a href="http://www.tutorspree.com/search/?q=washington" rel="nofollow">http://www.tutorspree.com/search/?q=washington</a> you have this two duplicated many times over. You may want to fix this.