A local community college has asked me to teach a class at night in the fall trimester (August to November).
Pros:
* I would be a professor of a class that I know well because I went to grad school in it
* I would meet other professors (maybe?)
* People would be impressed?
* nearby
* work is supportive-ish, well, not unsupportive
Cons:
* huge time commitment - 4 hours lecturing a week plus prep
* not much pay - 8K for the trimester
* huge time commitment
This community college is not great, and the students would probably only be taking my class because it's required for a few degrees. I think they asked me because there are not very many women in my field, or people with my grad degree at all really. And also they probably were having trouble finding anyone at all. I met a dean of the community college at a networking event, which is what set this in motion.
So, this would be a huge time suck--two nights a week!--from August to November. I'm having trouble figuring out why I would want to do this except sheer snobbery of being a professor, which is hard to justify, especially with all the unknowns with the new business coming soon. Comments welcome, this one is hard for me.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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3 comments:
Having taught night classes at a community college, I'd go for it. It's a decent chunk of change for a relatively small time commitment.
Most of my students were career changers who only needed my class for their degree or had failed the course at the local public university. I enjoyed working with both. Don't believe I'd say the same thing about teaching the day crowd at the CC.
If you end up hating it, it's only two months and will be over before you know it.
Hmm...
Aug - Nov: 3 months (you said trimester so I'll assume 3 months)
$8,000: $2.7k/month
4 hrs for 2 classes/wk: 16 hrs/mon
Prep time (+2 hrs/wk, assuming teaching the same material both days in the week): 8hrs/mon
Total: 24hrs of work for $2,700 = ~$110+/hr
Is that comparable to your day job? How much is your time worth? Money aside, would YOU get any personal benefit from it? If you're not passionate about the idea, you would be doing the students a disservice.
hen again, if my fiance (1/2 my household income) was embarking on a new journey of entrepreneurship, I had no emergency fund, and we have credit card debt, I'd want to make up that loss income somewhere.
I would have to say that ff does a pretty decent breakdown. I'm sorry to hear that you decided not to do it.
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