Computer lessons for seniors
Learn at your own pace, in your own home, from someone who will never make you feel silly for asking.
Read more →Newcastle · Lake Macquarie
I’ll sit with you
until it clicks.
A computer tutor in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie, teaching seniors, kids, adults and small business one-on-one. At your kitchen table or at mine, on the device that is actually giving you grief.
- $65/hr flat
- No call-out fee
- Ages 9 to 90
- No lock-in
What I teach
7 ways in, depending on
where you are starting.
The same patience applies whether you are 9 or 89. Only the subject changes.
IT tutoring for kids and teens
For the kid who wants to build, break and understand things, not just use the ones somebody else made.
Read more →Computer help for adults
Fix the gaps nobody ever taught you, and stop dreading the parts of your job that involve a computer.
Read more →Learn AI: practical skills, no hype
AI is changing how work gets done. Learn what it actually does, where it lies, and how to stay ahead of it.
Read more →Build a home lab and learn on it
You cannot learn IT by reading about it. Build real infrastructure you own, then learn on it.
Read more →Computer training for small business
Get your staff genuinely comfortable with the tools you already pay for, and stop losing hours to the same avoidable problems.
Read more →NSW school IT subject tutoring
Computing Technology, Software Engineering, Enterprise Computing and VET IDT, taught by someone who does this for a living.
Read more →A way into the workforce
The experience employers ask for,
that nobody will give you.
Every entry-level IT job advertisement asks for experience. No entry-level candidate has any. That is the trap, and it is why good people spend months applying and hearing nothing.
The problem with courses
University and TAFE both teach the theory well, and both are worth doing. Neither can hand you a server of your own to break on a Saturday. Graduates can define a subnet and have never configured one, and interviewers work that out in about four minutes.
What actually changes it
Real infrastructure you built, run and repaired yourself. It is the one form of genuine experience nobody has to hire you to get. You build it, you break it, you fix it, and now you have something to talk about.
Who this is for
School leavers deciding what to do. Students who want an edge before they graduate. Career changers holding a certificate and no experience. Anyone stuck applying for a first role and getting nowhere.
The bit YouTube cannot do
A tutorial can teach you. It cannot vouch for you.
There is an enormous amount of excellent free material online, and you should absolutely use it. But no video has watched you work. None of it can tell an employer that you turn up, that you stick with a problem at eleven o’clock at night, or that you can explain what you did afterwards.
I can. If we have worked together and you have earned it, I am glad to act as a referee, and to say specifically what I saw you build and how you went about it. For somebody with no work history yet, one credible person willing to speak for them is worth more than another certificate.
Earned rather than included. I will not vouch for work I have not seen, because a reference that means nothing helps nobody.
The bit nobody is teaching
AI is changing the world.
Learn how to adapt.
Not the hype, and not the doom. What these tools genuinely do, where they quietly get things wrong, and how to use them so your work gets better instead of your job getting shakier.
I teach it the same way I teach everything else, sitting next to you, on real work, until you can do it without me. Useful whether you are 15 and writing assignments, 45 and watching your industry change, or 75 and simply sick of being talked past.
Experience, not theory
You can’t learn IT
without a lab.
Theory you can get anywhere. Experience is the part nobody hands you, and it is the part every employer asks for.
So we build one out of ordinary hardware: a hypervisor, virtual machines, a proper network, Linux, things that break and have to be fixed. Whether you are 14 and curious, or 34 and changing careers with a certificate and no experience, this is the part that gets you hired.
Group classes
Or learn alongside a few others.
Small scheduled classes at Warners Bay, four to eight people, pay as you go. The most common reaction in a first class is relief.
How it works
Three steps, no mystery.
- 01
You get in touch
Ring me or send a message describing what is bothering you. Plain words are fine. "The printer hates me" is a perfectly good problem description.
- 02
We book a time that suits
Usually within a week. Lessons run weeknights from 4pm and weekends from 8am, because I work in IT full time. I come to you, or you come to Warners Bay.
- 03
We work on your actual problem
On your device, at your speed, as many times as it takes. You get written notes to keep so you are not relying on memory afterwards.
Where I travel
A computer tutor who comes to you.
I am based in Warners Bay and tutor across Newcastle and Lake Macquarie. No call-out fee anywhere in the service area. If you are just outside it, ring anyway. It is usually fine.
Free, no strings
Guides worth reading even
if you never call me.
Written in plain English, because most computer advice online is written for people who already understand it.
How to spot a scam email or phone call
The six signs that give away almost every scam, and the one rule that protects you when you are not sure.
Read the guide →Set up your first home lab
What to buy, what to salvage, and what to build first, without spending a fortune.
Read the guide →What AI can and cannot do
A plain English explanation for anyone who keeps hearing about AI and cannot tell what is real.
Read the guide →Straight answers
Questions people ask
Do you come to my house?
Yes. Most lessons happen at the kitchen table, on the computer you actually use, because that is where the problem lives. I travel across Lake Macquarie and Newcastle at no extra charge. You are also welcome to come to me in Warners Bay.
How much does it cost?
$65 an hour, flat. No call-out fee, no minimum block of lessons, no lock-in. If a session runs 20 minutes over because we were nearly there, I do not charge for it.
I am not good with computers. Will I be able to keep up?
Yes. There is no such thing as being bad with computers, only never having been shown properly by someone with the patience to explain it twice. We go at your pace, and I write things down for you to keep.
Do you help with Apple as well as Windows?
Yes. Windows, Mac, iPad, iPhone and Android. If it has a screen and it is frustrating you, it is fair game.
Can you help my child get into IT as a career?
That is one of my favourite parts of the job. We go well past "learn to code": building a real home lab, running servers, breaking things safely and fixing them. That hands-on experience is what actually gets someone hired.
Are you a real IT professional or a hobbyist?
I work in IT for a living and have done for years. This is not a side hustle built on a weekend course. It is my actual trade, taught at a rate that makes it reachable.