The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4646

Ves would become a Senior sooner or later. He could feel it in his bones. Despite his relatively young age, his accumulation was substantial and his work caught on in the mech market. He derived many successful innovations based on his design philosophy and built up an increasingly more expansive theoretical framework of his specialty.

He was ready to engage in mech design at a higher level. He was tired of remaining stuck as Journeyman. _{frёewebnoѵēl.com}

In the mech industry, a Journeyman was treated as a teenager that was better than an ignorant kid, but not by much.

Becoming a Senior was a watershed for a mech designer. Though Ves didn't exactly understand how much of a difference the rank would make in his work, the higher status alone was worth the effort to sprint towards advancement!

Ves did not know when he would be able to get rid of his status as a Journeyman, but he could feel that it would not take long. He just needed a single impetus to get over the edge.

If completing the Dullahan Project did not do that, then completing the Ghost Project may allow him to break through to Senior. If that wasn't enough, then another creative and groundbreaking mech design would surely be able to get him over the edge within the next decade.

In any case, Ves believed that his advancement to Senior was close enough for him to get ready to plan ahead. Fulfilling his obligation to pass on his knowledge to students in a more systematic learning environment was an important facet to any mech designer's life. It was better to plan ahead than be caught unprepared once he finally broke through.

"So how does this work, Master? Will I be able to become a full professor right out of the gate with the help of a Hyper Chamber and a recommendation?"

"Naturally, you should not expect to receive heavy responsibilities at first. You will have to start at the bottom of the ladder where you will only be able to teach a small and fairly limited elective course on a specialty subject that you can speak with authority. You will have to do the hard work of convincing students to accept your teachings. This is a method that a mech university regularly employs to test the teaching ability of its newer professors. Those that can attract more students and are able to improve their mech design capabilities in a concrete manner will be promoted in the future."

The bald MTA Master continued to explain the basic situation of what it would be like if Ves snatched a teaching position at one of these fancy schools.

The subjects that Ves was allowed to teach, the amount of hours he had to spend in front of a virtual or projected classroom, the type of students he was allowed to teach and the additional privileges he might receive as a relatively junior member of the teaching staff all varied depending on the specific employment contract.

Ves would have to agree on the exact terms of the contract with the mech university in question. It did not take a genius to figure out that a more outstanding institution would impose more restrictions and make more cumbersome demands.

Master Goldstein carefully spoke his next words.

"It is not a trivial matter to become a professor at a more prestigious mech university that is renowned throughout both galaxies, but the rewards are worth the sacrifices. Obtaining a temporary or permanent teaching position will immediately raise your reputation and gild your record. You will not only gain a tentative foothold in the core academic community of the mech community, but also obtain a lot more legitimacy for your work. It becomes much easier for other professionals to take your design philosophy, your radical innovations and your mech designs seriously, because a prestigious name is vouching for your work."

It was just as how being a member of the Mech Trade Association made every mech designer's reputation a lot better. No matter what kind of person a mecher may be, other people just knew that a MTA mech designer was just smarter, better and overall more superior than someone grown in the 'wild'.

The biggest shortcoming of Ves was that he was completely unfamiliar with the upper landscape of second-class educational institutions. He did not know the top names or their histories and traditions. He had no idea where the schools were located and what sort of teaching philosophies they upheld.

"The best second-class mech universities often maintain close connections to first-class institutions." Goldstein helpfully told Ves. "Make your choices carefully, because every top institution is entangled in a large and intricate web of interest groups. Your selection will have political implications for yourself and your clan. If you are unwilling to become an asset to a first-rate state such as the Greater Terran United Confederation or the New Rubarth Empire, it may be wise to steer towards a slightly less prestigious institution that has built up a more independent reputation."

That sounded like a good idea. Ves would have to do his own research, but he did not mind passing over the best offers if they came with too many strings attached.

"Are there any other important benefits to teaching at a top institution?" He asked. "I mean, it is nice to be able to use the reputation of a famous name, but not all mech designers need this sort of assistance."

"You are correct, Mr. Larkinson. There are many top mech designers who do not have to rely on a third party to boost their fame and reputation. What these individuals truly seek are opportunities to get into contact with promising and talented mech design students. The better the school, the greater the average quality of future mech designers. It is in the lecturing halls where Seniors and Masters often scout their next disciples."

Ves' eyes gleamed. Master Goldstein raised an excellent point!

Although the Larkinson Clan was slowly ramping up its ability to train and educate its own mech designers, the chances that a genius would emerge from within was still too low.

That didn't mean that Ves had no intentions of passing on his craft to his clansmen. Successful cases like Ketis showed that he could still make do with lower quality stock if he invested more effort and resources into his tutoring.

Ves didn't have the time or motivation to invest so much into raising mech designers, though. He was already swamped with his own work. Allocating an unreasonable amount of his time on making other people become better mech designers may ultimately translate into sabotaging his own progress!

This was why he became so interested in the idea of taking bright and talented mech design students under his wing.

These little geniuses either possessed wealthy backgrounds or had proven to be extraordinarily smart.

Most of the time, they were both, or else they wouldn't have been able to get accepted by a top school.

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