How To Do Just About Everything
By eHow Careers & Work Editor
Become a College Professor
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Full-time, tenured college professors must hold doctoral degrees - Ph.D.s. They supervise graduate students, conduct research, write textbooks, give lectures and teach from 3 to 16 hours per week. For an individual who loves communicating knowledge and conducting research in a chosen field, this can be a dream job. However, competition is increasingly fierce today for dwindling numbers of those positions.
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joeyboeyfofoey said
on 7/18/2008 I am currently in grad school finishing up my Master's Thesis and I'll be applying for a teaching position in a community college after the next six to twelve months. I have a high GPA, three published works, and many letters of recommendation from admired and highly respected professors; however, I have two traffic related misdemeanors on my record.
Will this be a problem during the hiring process?
-J-
mikedilv said
on 5/16/2008 The point of teaching is to get paid to do what it is you want to do. You can make a positive difference in the lives of others, but if you cannot afford even a modest lifestyle, have financial stress, can't afford to put money into savings and retirement, the job becomes depressing and a depressed professor is not an efficient one.
Re: 12-16 hours per week, don't get class hours mixed up with actual time invested each week. I have worked as a professor and can tell you that the work done at home is tremendous, especially the first year of a new course. It can be 2-3 hours/wk for every hour of class.
Put the above two scenarios into a marriage where the spouse's emotions range from depressed to angry to miserable, and you have a teacher that just wants a little more compensation to be able to do what he or she enjoys and not have all the drama on the side.
mikedilv said
on 5/15/2008 The point of teaching is to get paid to do what it is you want to do. You can make a positive difference in the lives of others, but if you cannot afford even a modest lifestyle, have financial stress, can't afford to put money into savings and retirement, the job becomes depressing and a depressed professor is not an efficient one.
Re: 12-16 hours per week, don't get class hours mixed up with actual time invested each week. I have worked as a professor and can tell you that the work done at home is tremendous, especially the first year of a new course. It can be 2-3 hours/wk for every hour of class.
Put the above two scenarios into a marriage where the spouse's emotions range from depressed to angry to miserable, and you have a teacher that just wants a little more compensation to be able to do what he or she enjoys and not have all the drama on the side.
mikedilv said
on 5/15/2008 Re: teachers that desire more pay.
The point of teaching is to get paid to do what it is you want to do. You can make a positive difference in the lives of others, but if you cannot afford even a modest lifestyle, have financial stress, can't afford to put money into savings and retirement, the job becomes depressing and a depressed professor is not an efficient one.
Re: 12-16 hours per week, don't get class hours mixed up with actual time invested each week. I have worked as a professor and can tell you that the work done at home is tremendous, especially the first year of a new course. It can be 2-3 hours/wk for every hour of class.
Put the above two scenarios into a marriage where the spouse's emotions range from depressed to angry to miserable, and you have a teacher that just wants a little more compensation to be able to do what he or she enjoys and not have all the dra
mikedilv said
on 5/15/2008 Re: teachers that desire more pay.
The point of teaching is to get paid to do what it is you want to do. You can make a positive difference in the lives of others, but if you cannot afford even a modest lifestyle, have financial stress, can't afford to put money into savings and retirement, the job becomes depressing and a depressed professor is not an efficient one.
Re: 12-16 hours per week, don't get class hours mixed up with actual time invested each week. I have worked as a professor and can tell you that the work done at home is tremendous, especially the first year of a new course. It can be 2-3 hours/wk for every hour of class.
Put the above two scenarios into a marriage where the spouse's emotions range from depressed to angry to miserable, and you have a teacher that just wants a little more compensation to be able to do what he or she enjoys and not have all the dra