Teaching Opportunity and Job Search
During the Fall 2009 semester, I worked as an unpaid Teaching Assistant (TA) for a former instructor of mine at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC). Afterward I was recommended to the department chairperson, who offered me the opportunity to co-teach a course with him during the upcoming Spring 2010 semester. Now, usually to teach a course at the community college level one needs at least a Master's degree. However, on very rare occasions this requirement can be waved if a course has two instructors, one with a Master's and one with only a Bachelor's.
The course will be three credits, and the chairperson suggests that I take two of them while he only takes one. This would mean that I would instruct 2/3rds of the courses and receive 2/3rds of the total pay. Through conversations I've had with him, it seems that the chairperson wants to be involved with the course as little as possible, basically only having his name on the necessary paperwork to meet the school's instructor degree requirements. In other words, aside from some occasional sagely guidance and encouraging words, this will be my first real opportunity to be a professor (or at least a pseudo-professor).
However, while that job will be a paid position, I'm not sure if it will be enough for my student loan payments, medical bills, rent costs, etc. As a result, over the past week I've applied to 15 different jobs at 11 different locations. None of them are very glamorous; most are for local restaurants, booksellers, and grocery stores. I'm hoping that at least a few of the 15 applications brings about a phone call, and perhaps one of those brings about an interview.
I guess I'll post again in a few weeks with how the job-hunt is progressing, and whether the dual-professorship opportunity actually occurs or some unforeseen bureaucratic obstacle causes it to fall through at the last minute.
The course will be three credits, and the chairperson suggests that I take two of them while he only takes one. This would mean that I would instruct 2/3rds of the courses and receive 2/3rds of the total pay. Through conversations I've had with him, it seems that the chairperson wants to be involved with the course as little as possible, basically only having his name on the necessary paperwork to meet the school's instructor degree requirements. In other words, aside from some occasional sagely guidance and encouraging words, this will be my first real opportunity to be a professor (or at least a pseudo-professor).
However, while that job will be a paid position, I'm not sure if it will be enough for my student loan payments, medical bills, rent costs, etc. As a result, over the past week I've applied to 15 different jobs at 11 different locations. None of them are very glamorous; most are for local restaurants, booksellers, and grocery stores. I'm hoping that at least a few of the 15 applications brings about a phone call, and perhaps one of those brings about an interview.
I guess I'll post again in a few weeks with how the job-hunt is progressing, and whether the dual-professorship opportunity actually occurs or some unforeseen bureaucratic obstacle causes it to fall through at the last minute.