{"id":7190,"date":"2009-03-08T21:20:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T21:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/08\/power-adjunctin-1\/"},"modified":"2009-03-08T21:20:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T21:20:58","slug":"power-adjunctin-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/08\/power-adjunctin-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Adjuncting"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 3<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>

The Chronicle<\/i> published a piece this week by Douglas W. Texter,
\n"No Tenure? No
\nProblem."<\/a> Part-timers, it goes, can now make a pile of money (in the
\nneighborhood of $100k annually) by stacking teaching gigs at a couple of
\ndifferent institutions. Texter offers ten principles useful for adjusting
\none’s thinking while taking the plunge into the pot of gold that is
\n"entrepreneurial adjuncting." Among the guiding tenets: care, assume a
\nmercenary attitude, change what you read, change the company you keep, watch
\nRisky Business<\/i>, and so on.<\/p>\n

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I learned about the column not because I pay all that much attention to
\nCHE<\/i> but because it drifted across
\nWPA-L<\/a>,
\na listserv I am subscribed to, albeit in digest mode. Texter’s column
\nstirred a fair amount of discussion, something like 32 list messages on the day
\nit appeared. And without pointing too directly at any of the comments or
\nnaming names, the responses included variations of:<\/p>\n