dh is about to go on the academic job market (finishing his dissertation). Of course it could not be a worse time. I teach hs and always figured that wherever dh got a job I could get...
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a job too--teaching is easy to transfer but that is not the case anymore either. Wondering what we are going to do.
posted July 15th, 2009 at 11:23pm in
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- you dont need 1,000 open positions, you need the 2 right ones. 7-15-2009 11:24pm
- but do the exist? and can they please not be in western Kansas? 7-15-2009 11:25pm
- sorry, i realized i hit enter while that still sounded cavalier. i just mean that you are looking for specific opening so yes, you will be well served to be treating this as a real job...(more) 7-15-2009 11:26pm
- can you set up a tutoring business and sub until you get a perm job? 7-15-2009 11:24pm
- maybe. who knows? I like classroom teaching though. 7-15-2009 11:25pm
- just until you find a school etc 7-15-2009 11:27pm
- Maybe he will end up teaching hs too. Signed, a (very content) hs history teacher with a PhD 7-15-2009 11:25pm
- we've talked about that, but with the hiring freeze in the nyc publics I don't know. . . 7-15-2009 11:26pm
- He would have to go private. (np) 7-15-2009 11:27pm
- where do you teach? 7-15-2009 11:26pm
- one of the NYC private schools (thankfully NOT one of the NYC Prep ones!) 7-15-2009 11:31pm
- I have been working in the academic job market for about 15 years...(more) 6-30-2021 2:18am
- what is his subject area? 7-15-2009 11:26pm
- Sociology 7-15-2009 11:27pm
- ouch - that's a hard field right now. Would he consider think tank work, or advocacy? 7-15-2009 11:36pm
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