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nadinbrzezinski

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5. Whatever pal

Thu Sep 19, 2013, 02:02 PM

Sep 2013

After researching this locally and seeing where we are, and having a few adjuncts as neighbors, and reading the chronicle of higher education, I am sure I am onto something. Oh and people who are adjuncts are on Cal Fresh and Medical, if that is their only source of income.

That is a fact jack.

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I have considered teaching, but... [View all] nadinbrzezinski Sep 2013 OP

I agree el_bryanto Sep 2013 #1

We need a union that will demand the pay of cops nadinbrzezinski Sep 2013 #2

Can we please leave the enlightenment Sep 2013 #3

Whatever pal nadinbrzezinski Sep 2013 #5

what, praytell, would you be teaching? dionysus Sep 2013 #4

Wind farms. Rex Sep 2013 #8

History, I suspect cali Sep 2013 #12

Whoa zappaman Sep 2013 #13

Popinjay 101 would be a better choice, i think. dionysus Sep 2013 #15

Oh! Popinjay has to be HappyMe Sep 2013 #17

Maybe journalism. Brickbat Sep 2013 #18

Yes, I was summarily put on the iggy list when I dared point out that there were SlimJimmy Sep 2013 #22

Certainly not journalism... SidDithers Sep 2013 #19

Facebook Researching, Historical Fiction, and calidum aer FSogol Sep 2013 #20

Plonking 101. bunnies Sep 2013 #21

Fencing? maddezmom Sep 2013 #23

Wildfire management. Brickbat Sep 2013 #24

Or even meteorology maddezmom Sep 2013 #34

Spelling... doggie breath Sep 2013 #26

this whole subthread is EPIC... n/t ProdigalJunkMail Sep 2013 #27

LOL This whole subthread probably consists of the jolly crew on her Iggy List Hekate Sep 2013 #29

if the posts in this sub-thread were comprehensive ProdigalJunkMail Sep 2013 #30

Bwa-ha-ha Hekate Sep 2013 #32

She'll see it pintobean Sep 2013 #33

The metric system?...nt SidDithers Sep 2013 #35

wine tasting obliviously Sep 2013 #37

Kerfunkeling with riffles. DevonRex Sep 2013 #47

i have never seen wadsworth laugh so hard at a thread. care for a truffle? dionysus Sep 2013 #48

Somebody's gonna get challenged to a duel. With DevonRex Sep 2013 #49

The outrage is the high tuition combined with pathetic wages. dkf Sep 2013 #6

I was recently offered an adjunct 3 hr. course for $1100 for 11 weeks... JCMach1 Sep 2013 #7

My daughter is a teacher at a charter school in South Florida. RebelOne Sep 2013 #9

What a lot of people don't know about are the ongoing education obligations teachers have to do JCMach1 Sep 2013 #11

Yes, she has to attend workshops during the summer vacation. n/t RebelOne Sep 2013 #39

San Diego community pays anywhere from 1100 to 1500 for the same nadinbrzezinski Sep 2013 #10

In many ways I agree with you. MY wife has been teaching for 30 years gopiscrap Sep 2013 #14

I can't say I blame her nadinbrzezinski Sep 2013 #25

What happened with the adjunct positions you applied for? MineralMan Sep 2013 #16

my guess is grossly unqualified. dionysus Sep 2013 #54

Full time work, of any kind, should pay a living wage. Laelth Sep 2013 #28

One of my daughter's teachers waits tables at night gollygee Sep 2013 #31

Bring back the trade schools. Barack_America Sep 2013 #36

The race for the bottom also means a decline nadinbrzezinski Sep 2013 #41

Yes, I knew an elementary schoolteacher who waited tables at night Quantess Sep 2013 #38

Wow, that's ridiculous. a la izquierda Sep 2013 #42

No gollygee Sep 2013 #43

Oh, oh, I'm sorry. a la izquierda Sep 2013 #44

I didn't word it well gollygee Sep 2013 #45

Right on... a la izquierda Sep 2013 #46

Please, in all seriousness, don't. n/t Egalitarian Thug Sep 2013 #40

you win the thread. nt dionysus Sep 2013 #50

But, the students are curios. pintobean Sep 2013 #53

OMG that made me chortle tkmorris Sep 2013 #56

... pintobean Sep 2013 #57

I assume you will be looking to teach a course in Journalism. I hope it goes well, since you have madinmaryland Sep 2013 #51

Now I could do that nadinbrzezinski Sep 2013 #52

Then what are you going to teach??? You need a masters at a minimum to teach anything at a college madinmaryland Sep 2013 #55

I might reapply nadinbrzezinski Sep 2013 #58