As a Classicist, I have no chance at all of getting a job where I live, yet my overall family situation if too good for us to pack up and move hundreds of miles if I was somehow able to line up a job elsewhere (the only job I've actually turned down was teaching Latin 3/4 quarter time at a prep school in Chicago for about $20K per annum--not much reason to move).
My degree is the from the wrong school to get a job at either of the Universities here, and as for high school...A very good Catholic school here just advertised yesterday for someone to teach the history of theology--a perfect job for me, except the candidates also had to be qualfied to be the school's wrestling coach. The last job I applied for I was perfectly qualfied for, the interview went well...but at the institution in question 96 of the 102 faculty are women. Surprisingly, the job went to a woman with a BA in Latin, when they specifically told me they wanted someone who could introduce Greek to the curriculum and with college teaching experience so they could convince the accrediation board to give college credit for certain upper division courses. Guess there was something wrong with me personally.
Sorry for the boring rant, but now you see why the career of flanneur looks good to me (actually I'm raising the two childern full time and writing encyclopedia articles part time).
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Date: 2007-04-10 06:51 am (UTC)http://community.livejournal.com/barbary_club/profile
Its self-teasing more than anything.
As a Classicist, I have no chance at all of getting a job where I live, yet my overall family situation if too good for us to pack up and move hundreds of miles if I was somehow able to line up a job elsewhere (the only job I've actually turned down was teaching Latin 3/4 quarter time at a prep school in Chicago for about $20K per annum--not much reason to move).
My degree is the from the wrong school to get a job at either of the Universities here, and as for high school...A very good Catholic school here just advertised yesterday for someone to teach the history of theology--a perfect job for me, except the candidates also had to be qualfied to be the school's wrestling coach. The last job I applied for I was perfectly qualfied for, the interview went well...but at the institution in question 96 of the 102 faculty are women. Surprisingly, the job went to a woman with a BA in Latin, when they specifically told me they wanted someone who could introduce Greek to the curriculum and with college teaching experience so they could convince the accrediation board to give college credit for certain upper division courses. Guess there was something wrong with me personally.
Sorry for the boring rant, but now you see why the career of flanneur looks good to me (actually I'm raising the two childern full time and writing encyclopedia articles part time).