[lbo-talk] A Glimpse into the Fate of Ph,D's currently

[shag carpet bomb]

btw, why do YOU do it? when i went to grad school, my $8000 per semester 
scholarship was more than I'd ever made, per hour, than any of the $6/hr 
jobs I'd had. Even factoring in 30 hr work weeks for one slavemaster prof. 
Similarly, even the small change gigs where I assigned only written essay 
assignments still worked out to be better than $6/hr even factoring in 
grading. When I moved to florida and found out that the local comm colleges 
were willing to pay a big old $1600/ semester, I got a "real" job and said: 
fuck that noise. I had options, though. I suppose in rural settings, it's 
hard to come by much else so the adjunct job is better than nothing?

At 12:55 AM 6/12/2012, Jordan Carroll wrote:
>It's not uncommon for adjuncts to make less than $2000 per course:
>http://adjunctproject.com/us/


>Teaching and preparation don't take up that much time, but the big time
>suck is grading. At my very best, I can get about 4 papers graded and
>commented on per hour. Usually, it's more like 3 an hour. If you have four
>classes of 25 students, that's 33 extra hours for every major assignment.
>On a semester system, you're likely to have at least 4 or 5 papers, plus
>smaller assignments. Adjuncting at 3\3 was often a 40 hour \ week job for
>me, sometimes more, and I was making considerably less than what I've
>received for non-teaching jobs.
>
>--
>Best,
>
>Jordan
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