me and my dive buddy both took our first o/w class back last july and have not looked back since. we told the dive masters at our local shop the first day of o/w checkouts that we were coming for their jobs. they just laught at us 4 months later we were working on our last of five specialties. then had to wait 6 months for a rescue class to open up. finished that now just waiting for a dive master class. all this in a year and some change. my buddy plans on continuing to instuctor i think i will just stay with dive master and probably get into the tec side.