Starting sometime in October, I plan to take on a new role at work by becoming a trainer. I’ve debated training for a while now and finally decided to take the plunge once the training manager told me he needed some more trainers. Maybe 3-6 shifts per month, I will work flights with a trainee and trying to teach him/her as much as I can within a limited amount of time. Technically the trainee is dispatching with my license, so officially I’m responsible, but the trainee is doing most of the actual work under my supervision. All but one of the incoming trainees have dispatched before, so they mainly need to learn our software and policies. There’s only one other trainer on the midnight shift, so I plan to focus on the quirks of our shift since it’s very different from a day or afternoon shift. Pray that I can be an effective and helpful trainer.