As a substitute teacher, you follow the regular teacher's lesson plans. You are not allowed to develop those plans. I don't know what free time I'd have, but you have to be available all day to the students and staff when substituting for a teacher for whatever reason they are absent.

>In North Carolina, you cannot collect unemployment benefits if you have been offerred a job and turned it down. That makes the question moot for me.

>I would teach and then spend the nights learning .net You may find that you like the teaching better anyway, but at a minimum you are doing something productive, earning, and still learning.

>However, depending on the courses you will be teaching (do lesson plans already exist?) will determine how much free time you really have to study .net when you are not teaching.