Question for those of you who currently teach at the University level.

[Eleanors38]

4. Got out of college teaching 40 yrs ago....

It was all P-TT for three years, averaging 9-12 hrs/semester (up to 4 courses). There is always the promise that you are on the short list for a full-time position when it opens up. Hell, when it did after 3 yrs and I was, iirc, the only in-house instructor applying, the job went to someone new who fitted the college's EEOC imperatives (the head of our teaching "area," or field of study, was out-of-field and nearly full-time in another discipline). I saw the hand-writing on the wall. My Dad, who retired his professorship after 34 years at a major university, saw his experience as an end of an era, and considered himself lucky.

I wasn't looking for big bucks or some ad. job. I was just a very good teacher who was neither wanted nor needed. Fortunately, I was also a good auto mechanic!