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Silly academics and the limits to their tolerance for debt servitude.
Welcome to the world of trying out individual solutions to systemic problems.
It’s nuts how much of all of ‘it’ (where ‘it’ is all fuckery) is simply down to that fact. Selfish altruism ought to be obvious.
Because sessional teaching for $4000 a course is a great way to make a living. I mean a 5 course load could move you close to the poverty line!
I’d assume they care more about feeding themselves and their families first.
Everyone’s morals are affected by their paycheck, unfortunately.
Can’t feed the poor if you can’t feed yourself
I don’t really think it’s fair to get mad at someone for prioritizing meeting their own needs. It is however entirely fair to be furious about societal structures that place increased financial value on industrialization and privatization over community cohesion.
Your teeth are bared in the wrong direction. We do in fact have a common enemy here.
Yeah, individuals make decisions within the structures that exist around them. Asking people to heroically sacrifice their own financial or career opportunities as opposed to changing those structures just won’t succeed.
Hence the title. ;)
I get what the meme is saying, but community colleges don’t really need research scholars, they need great teachers with industry experience.
A viable option is to take the industry job, and then teach a class or two a year. Also, you can make connections at those community colleges and regional schools and advertise your internships and job postings.
Please, everyone listen to this person. I’m am so thankful to work at a school with NASA engineers and successful novelists/journalists who just want to share their passion. Kids know when you are phoning it in, and they respond by phoning it in themselves. Nothing good is accomplished. If you can afford it and handle it, please give your time to the next generation. They are awesome already, but could use as many mentors as they can get. Passion is hard to find these days.
I have literally never met or heard of somebody like this.
For real. College teaching jobs can be very competitive.
So long as there’s privileged classes, I’d rather my boss be a lucky comrade than a racist reactionary.
Well benefit for minorities are a thing but no if you can’t land a job it’s your own fault!
