Nadin thought about teaching, but (insert your comment here)

[BannedFromDU]

nadinbrzezinski (126,135 posts)

I have considered teaching, but...

Even applied to a few adjunct positions. But we realize it will be for satisfaction, and extra spending money. The pay is horrendous. When Cali raises the minimum, McDonald's will pay better, I wish I were kidding.

We as a society speak a good game on education, but words don't feed people, nor do they keep a roof over their head. This is not just this Catholic university. It is all over, state schools, like my Alma Mater, treat adjuncts like cheap, non-organized labor, emphasis on cheap. So does the Catholic university up the hill, the UC school, and the for profits. In fact, the for profits prefer adjuncts to tenure.

The Junior Colleges have a majority adjunct staff, again they prefer it. It's cheaper.

So the end result is that good people do it as a hobby only if they can afford it. Not that all adjuncts are bad, but sooner or later you are reduced to young idealistic kids or old retirees.

So when we are told, Americans need to get a college education, I say make it so where your average prof, likely an adjunct, will get medical, dental, and at least clear 30K a year.

Locally our college profs are on food stamps and medical, no choice.

Adjuncts make about half of the teaching staff nationwide. Colleges would prefer it if most undergrads were taught by adjuncts, and leave the "real profs" for upper division and graduate students, the latter are another source of cheap labor, and lab techs.

Good news, there is a union drive afoot. Increasingly corporatized colleges and universities will fight it. It is yet another opening front in the struggle of labor.

This is not just this horrific story

You'd have considered teaching, but you're...

Too stupid?
Too illiterate?
Too ugly?
Too bald?


Face it, Nads, you're a fish-eyed fool and you wouldn't make it past the first interview. They don't want illiterate liberal hacks at most schools.

[AllosaursRus]

Mostly because the parents would have her hangin' from a tree after the first day! At least that's what would happen if she shows her happy fat ass around here tryin' to indoctrinate MY grandchildren!

[JohnnyReb]

What? Did Nadin apply for the job of formaldehyde frog in biology class......and get turned down.

[BlueStateSaint]

Now, now!  She could teach Rubicon Jumping 101--the 200-level course involves The Good Rig.

[AllosaursRus]

Now, now!  She could teach Rubicon Jumping 101--the 200-level course involves The Good Rig.

That bitch couldn't play checkers with the residents of the "Rubber Room"!! Or the "Short Bus"! Or the "Loonie Bin"!

[thundley4]

The pay is horrendous. When Cali raises the minimum, McDonald's will pay better, I wish I were kidding.

Yet people that put their lives on the line in the military are paid less than teachers and have a worse retirement plan. F*ck you gNads.

[AllosaursRus]

Yet people that put their lives on the line in the military are paid less than teachers and have a worse retirement plan. F*ck you goNads.

Fixt it for ya Thund!

[Traveshamockery]

    What's she going to teach?  Grammar and punctuation?      OMG!   

[GOBUCKS]

A huge kerfunkle broke out.

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 06:53 PM
Egalitarian Thug (9,748 posts)

40. Please, in all seriousness, don't. n/t

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 02:02 PM
dionysus (23,051 posts)

4. what, praytell, would you be teaching?

Response to dionysus (Reply #4)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 02:09 PM
Rex (38,198 posts)

8. Wind farms.
She seems to be a total expert on those.

Response to cali (Reply #12)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 03:16 PM
Brickbat (14,984 posts)

18. Maybe journalism.

Response to cali (Reply #12)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 03:55 PM
SlimJimmy (2,084 posts)

22. Yes, I was summarily put on the iggy list when I dared point out that there were
riots in NY over the 1860's draft. Apparently, her history books don't include that chapter.

Response to dionysus (Reply #4)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 03:19 PM
SidDithers (29,263 posts)

19. Certainly not journalism...
Creative writing, maybe.

Response to dionysus (Reply #4)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 03:24 PM
FSogol (17,182 posts)

20. Facebook Researching, Historical Fiction, and calidum aer

Response to dionysus (Reply #4)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 03:25 PM
bunnies (12,036 posts)

21. Plonking 101.

To be taken in conjunction with:
Mastering condescension, Faux intellectual superiority, and Crafting creative GBCW posts for internet message boards.

Response to dionysus (Reply #4)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 03:59 PM
maddezmom (132,833 posts)

23. Fencing?

Response to dionysus (Reply #4)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 04:12 PM
Brickbat (14,984 posts)

24. Wildfire management.

Response to dionysus (Reply #4)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 04:34 PM
doggie breath (16 posts)

26. Spelling...
would not be my first guess.

Response to Hekate (Reply #29)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 05:59 PM
pintobean (9,919 posts)

33. She'll see it
She "creatively ignores" people.

That thread also shows that she could teach about the Korean War Of 2013.

Response to dionysus (Reply #4)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 06:05 PM
SidDithers (29,263 posts)

35. The metric system?...nt

Response to dionysus (Reply #4)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 06:37 PM
obliviously (1,504 posts)

37. wine tasting
by the bottle?

[AllosaursRus]

Oh crap! They appreciate her as much as we do! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111one

Take THAT, NadaBrain!

Good catch Gobie!

[biersmythe]

Well there is a reason you are called an "Adjunct" you are a fill in NOT an actual teacher...cause you do not have the skill "needed" to have a full time position. This is not saying that the people called adjunct instructors do not have a degree but they are fill ins...so eff you with the full benies and pay for part time shits!

[AllosaursRus]

Well there is a reason you are called an "Adjunct" you are a fill in NOT an actual teacher...cause you do not have the skill "needed" to have a full time position. This is not saying that the people called adjunct instructors do not have a degree but they are fill ins...so eff you with the full benies and pay for part time shits!

I'd rather have the gal who takes my money at Taco Belch teach my children than this waste of humanity! Besides, she's a young sweetheart! Somethin' NadaTwat ever got close to bein'.

[GOBUCKS]

She has so much knowledge to give.
It's hard for her to decide what to share first.

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 09:34 PM
madinmaryland (54,165 posts)

51. I assume you will be looking to teach a course in Journalism. I hope it goes well, since you have
quite a bit of experience in that field.

Response to madinmaryland (Reply #51)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 09:42 PM
nadinbrzezinski (126,158 posts)

52. Now I could do that
My MA is in history with a minor in poli sci. The economy was really bad when I originally applied, so I could teach journalism, photojournalism, history or poli sci. I might apply again, now that the economy has improved.
 
And in reality we see kids come into the field, who also need some tactical training.

[Duke Nukum]

Nadin thought about teaching but figured she wouldn't be able to put any of her students on her iggy list.

[Ogre]

nadinbrzezinski (126,135 posts)

I have considered teaching, but...

no school offers a course in emergency services scanner or rappelling for oblate spheroids.

Suffice it to say, thank god she doesn't have the opportunity to mold young minds.

Can you imagine her writing a test..................the horror, the horror.

[Traveshamockery]

enlightenment (6,673 posts)
3. Can we please leave the

"good people" canard out of this discussion?

Geeze. Adjunct faculty make up more than half of ALL higher education faculty. Not all of them are "young idealistic kids or old retirees" and the vast majority are most certainly both "good people" and good educators.

And it is most certainly NOT a hobby for many, many people.

If you're going to try and make yourself the resident expert on the situation of adjunct faculty in US higher education, please do us the favor of leaving the value judgements at home. You might also want to spend some time reading up on the issue instead of trotting out the same tired refrains heard over and over again by people who briefly consider adding "college instructor" to their CV until they realize that it isn't worth the effort.

The Chronicle of Higher Ed has many good - and freely accessible articles on this topic. The New Majority can also provide you plenty of information. The Adjunct Project is an excellent source of raw data.

Response to enlightenment (Reply #3)Thu Sep 19, 2013, 02:02 PM
nadinbrzezinski (126,159 posts)
5. Whatever pal

Last edited Thu Sep 19, 2013, 02:03 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

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.

This is my favorite exchange of this thread over at the DUmp.  I think "that is a fact jack" could be a new nadism. 

[DefiantSix]

This is my favorite exchange of this thread over at the DUmp.  I think "that is a fact jack" could be a new nadism. 

Bill Murray should sue...

[youtube=425,350]www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o0V6VPX_E0[/youtube]

[Chris_]

This is my favorite exchange of this thread over at the DUmp.  I think "that is a fact jack" could be a new nadism. 

Uncle Si might have a bone to pick with you.

[delilahmused]

At least she's not thinking linguistics. Though when I took it we were required to bring in "new" words every week. Nads would've been an endless source. None of them would probably be accepted...

Cindie

[67 Rover]

Response to madinmaryland (Reply #51)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 09:42 PM
nadinbrzezinski (126,158 posts)

52. Now I could do that
My MA is in history with a minor in poli sci. The economy was really bad when I originally applied, so I could teach journalism, photojournalism, history or poli sci. I might apply again, now that the economy has improved.
 
And in reality we see kids come into the field, who also need some tactical training.

O.K. we can immediately eliminate economist from the vast list of qualified teaching positions.

[biersmythe]

O.K. we can immediately eliminate economist from the vast list of qualified teaching positions.

Hehe yep

[GOBUCKS]

Wonder where the crazy bald dwarf got the idea for her September 19 post about an adjunct teaching position?

Tue Sep 17, 2013, 07:41 PM
JCMach1 (21,417 posts)

Was just offered $1100 a class to teach as an adjunct
I started my own business when I returned to the states (it's going fine). However, I find myself in need of cash, so I started checking the market for adjunct instructors.
 
I did find a position, but they freaking pay $1100 a class...

When you add in the time you work, that works out to about $5.00 an hour without any tips.

I made significantly more each semester as a TA in 1992 for crisssssake...

Also, when you start subtracting for taxes, FICA, Medicare, gas for the commute etc. it drops to around 800 or so. That makes it a whopping $3.63 per hour.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018482222

[Skul]

GNads couldn't teach a girl to squat.

[JohnnyReb]

I did find a position, but they freaking pay $1100 a class...

When you add in the time you work, that works out to about $5.00 an hour without any tips.

Either the DUmmie left out a decimal or he majored in higher DUmmie math.

Even I would try to teach the DUmmies something for $1100 a class.

[Airwolf]

Dear God The horror of her in a teaching position. One look at her and the kids would be running out the door and asking why Mommy and Daddy sent them to school to see the bad man!!!!!