Life Update: toward the start of spring 2006
Life Update—toward the start of Spring 2006.
I have been debating how much specific information to give in an anonymous blog. How specific do the details need to be in order to communicate the specifics of a given situation? With no real answer, I will hedge around my current state.
I have not been teaching for the past three months. For a variety of reasons, I have taken some time off from the full-year, always on treadmill of online teaching. That will change this coming week.
I can’t make a living teaching, even when I was at three institutions teaching 10 courses (this time last year—boy, did that get old fast), so I have found myself, after a series of writing jobs, as an instructional designer for IT. In essence, I have found in corporate education what higher education was not able to give me…a livable wage. Well, mostly livable. Corporate IT work is project based for the most part. So, I live from project to project, limiting the overnight travel the best I can. When the project is good, life is very good. Then there are the between project times, and the last five years have not been the best for IT-related projects (Y2K, 9-11, “recession,” etc.).
Currently I am on project. It lasts only three months. Like adjuncting, project life is ever-seeking stability. For now, I am still seeking.
I have been debating how much specific information to give in an anonymous blog. How specific do the details need to be in order to communicate the specifics of a given situation? With no real answer, I will hedge around my current state.
I have not been teaching for the past three months. For a variety of reasons, I have taken some time off from the full-year, always on treadmill of online teaching. That will change this coming week.
I can’t make a living teaching, even when I was at three institutions teaching 10 courses (this time last year—boy, did that get old fast), so I have found myself, after a series of writing jobs, as an instructional designer for IT. In essence, I have found in corporate education what higher education was not able to give me…a livable wage. Well, mostly livable. Corporate IT work is project based for the most part. So, I live from project to project, limiting the overnight travel the best I can. When the project is good, life is very good. Then there are the between project times, and the last five years have not been the best for IT-related projects (Y2K, 9-11, “recession,” etc.).
Currently I am on project. It lasts only three months. Like adjuncting, project life is ever-seeking stability. For now, I am still seeking.
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