Help them stay focused. That goes for both students and co-workers. Boss wouldn't let me change assignments, and didn't enjoy working on the assignment I had. I quit, took another job where I had even less choices. So quit to teach, best move I ever made.
Pay is lousy but the benefits are great.
I'm seeing a very big difference in how I teach, how I look at things since I went back this year, and it's being reflected in my students abilitlies. Treating people fairly and making a difference. Received a commendation from a local police department for the work I did in training their officers and setting up things in a user friendly matter. My goal now is go get a Master of Science, majoring in computer science from the University of North Texas and to continue to build my computer science program and to encourage others to teach computer programming at the high school level.