Help me return to teaching after a stint in the corporate world
June 25, 2004 6:04 AM Subscribe
I would like to return to teaching after a five-year stint in the corporate world. Help? [Please open your browsers to more inside]
This thread asks a similar question, but my situation is a bit different. I have an M.A. in English and three year’s prior experience teaching as an adjunct at a community college. I loved the job, but had to give it up due to the inconsistent pay and lack of health insurance (I now have a family to support). I have done web design for large faceless companies for the past five years and would like to get out and return to teaching. What are my options? (Health insurance and a dependable salary are prerequisites).
This thread asks a similar question, but my situation is a bit different. I have an M.A. in English and three year’s prior experience teaching as an adjunct at a community college. I loved the job, but had to give it up due to the inconsistent pay and lack of health insurance (I now have a family to support). I have done web design for large faceless companies for the past five years and would like to get out and return to teaching. What are my options? (Health insurance and a dependable salary are prerequisites).
(uhm... if you promise not to point out my bad editing I promise not to draw attention to your misappropriated apostrophe.)
posted by alphanerd at 7:50 AM on June 25, 2004
posted by alphanerd at 7:50 AM on June 25, 2004
Response by poster: "English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England."
(Thanks for the link alphanerd. I will check out that program. Sounds promising.)
posted by Otis at 8:48 AM on June 25, 2004
(Thanks for the link alphanerd. I will check out that program. Sounds promising.)
posted by Otis at 8:48 AM on June 25, 2004
If you are interested in teaching, and health insurance and a stable salary are pre-requisites, then higher education is almost certainly not the way to go right now, given the condition of the American job market. So I'd second alphanerd's recommendation.
posted by Prospero at 9:47 AM on June 25, 2004
posted by Prospero at 9:47 AM on June 25, 2004
I would like to return to teaching after a five-year stint in the corporate world.
Some adjustment may be necessary. I suggest that you remove the following words from your vocabulary immediately: utilize, incent, paradigm, synergy. Also remember that the word "fruit" can be modified by adjectives other than "low-hanging," such as "delicious." Your students will thank you.
posted by kindall at 10:12 AM on June 25, 2004
Some adjustment may be necessary. I suggest that you remove the following words from your vocabulary immediately: utilize, incent, paradigm, synergy. Also remember that the word "fruit" can be modified by adjectives other than "low-hanging," such as "delicious." Your students will thank you.
posted by kindall at 10:12 AM on June 25, 2004
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posted by alphanerd at 7:31 AM on June 25, 2004