symberke

Honestly I struggle to see how getting in the 99th vs the 90th percentile on a test would make you a better tutor. Teaching is more of a soft skill than that. I scored in the 99th percentile on several college/grad school admission tests and I don't feel like I'd be really qualified to tutor anyone.

not a joke. on most forum systems posts are sorted by most recent reply, so to give a post attention people will "bump" it to the top with a reply like "bump". that's not how reddit works though

Well, we can be more specific than that. There's one "marketing manager" at their company that makes between 80k and 86k

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/PPG-Salaries-E508.htm?filter.jobTitleFTS=marketing

Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking. I've often heard that the best athletic coaches are those who tried really hard to succeed in the sport themselves but couldn't.

I think you're right. I did a bereavement fare with delta last fall, the round trip cost about the same as a normal economy round trip booked a few weeks in advance would. But I booked the bereavement one like 12 hours before, and the return flight was flexible.