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Great advice, thanks so much for your thoughtful answer. I
was never really gunning fof full-time in a CC. In fact, I
prefer part-time. However, I'm not sure I have the patience
for a phd, so I think the plan is the masters through TFA,
while getting paid to teach HS for two years on their
contract. Then, we'll see where I go from there. Thanks
again!

On 4/24/16, nah wrote:
> Most community college teachers are part time and don't
> make very much money. They get almost nothing in benefits
> when they're part time and get paid about $1000 per
class.
> My cousin's husband has a Phd in Economics and spent
three
> years trying to get a job as a full time college teacher.
> He applied to every position in the US at both community
> colleges and full universities. Literally, if there was
an
> econ teaching job at a college in the US, he applied. He
> probably applied to multiple colleges in every state,
> including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, and in Canada.
>
> Luckily he was able to get a job in the private sector
> with his economics degree while he searched for a
teaching
> job, and he did the part time college teaching thing
> online. Economists actually make good money in the
private
> sector, so he wasn't hurting for money, but he would have
> had a hard time of it if he had a Phd in History or
> English. Anyways, they lived in California, and he
finally
> got a full time professor's job at a community college in
> upstate New York. They moved there last fall.
>
> I guess my point is that teaching full time in college is
> a very hard field to get into. You're not going to get a
> job at the community college near your home and if you're
> serious about it, you will need be ready to move, maybe
to
> the middle of nowhere. My cousin was used to living in
the
> Bay Area, and now they live in a frozen rural town, so
> they made some sacrifices for his career. You're probably
> better off staying with teaching high school.

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