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To be honest, I would suggest leaving such positions altogether and finding a normal job outside academia. These "adjunk" roles are not worth it. It's like joining a McDonald's Cook team after getting a PhD and complaining that you have to steal burgers from the fridge because otherwise you can't afford a car loan...
Sorry for being a bit harsh, but sometimes the message doesn't come across well without it.
Sorry for being a bit harsh, but sometimes the message doesn't come across well without it.
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Dina Stretiner there are tons of reasons why. First and foremost, the culture of PhD programs is that the professor role is the only one PhDs are trained for (even though we know that's not true). If you can't get one right away, being an adjunct is "supposed" to give you a leg up in the next application cycle (even though we know adjuncts are LESS likely to be hired than someone fresh out of a PhD program). Sunk cost fallacy. Etc.
The only solution is to walk away . . .
I was an adjunct for 5 years. I also held a full time job while adjuncting. Fellow faculty members gave me crazy looks for doing that. The system is insane. A lot of tenured faculty jobs are just a precarious as adjunct jobs are now.
Leave full-time adjuncting now.
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