One of the things I do from time to time is train. I’m probably one of the better Robotics trainers in the biz, and lately I’ve been training in marking/engraving lasers.

The lasers are actually pretty simple, because at base they’re really just printers. You draw something, assign it a set of laser parameters, and burn. There’s a little more to it, but not much.

Yesterday I trained three very nice people, a fortysomething girl (Who looked twenty to me, I guess I’m just showing my age) a guy my age, and an elderly Asian lady.

It is hardest for me to watch people stumble and not be able to find the things I tell them to click on etc., hard to not take their hand and guide them to the thing I want done, but they have to be able to do so myself. I spend a day doing this training, and it is bloody frustrating, because I basically sit on my hands.

Still, it’s nice to end a day knowing these people will make it on their own because I made them do all the work.