Job searching
Jul. 15th, 2005 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottahillI don't know how y'all keep these blogs up to date, with three or four messages per week. Must get easier with practice.
Anyway, I'm currently unemployed, more or less. I was a visiting assistant professor of physics at Rhode Island College in the spring, and I'm currently working on a paper with my previous post-doc advisor; he paid me for a month, but it's been at least two months so I figure I'm working half-time (though I've already been paid.) I'm working on another paper as well, one of my own, a sequel to my paper on bus routes back in 2003. I should have a first draft done soon, if anyone's interested in beta-testing it. :)
So I'm looking for a job this fall. My hope has been that I would find a sabbatical replacement, or some other last-minute teaching position. What I'm seeing more of, so far, are part-time one-class adjunct positions. I got a very quick response to my application for one of those positions. I'm a little concerned about having to string several adjunct positions together into a full-time job. Benefits aren't a concern, thanks to my wife. I suppose it is doable, and even if I don't make as much as I did before it will be enough. I'm also worried about drifting too far down the wrong career path. My goal is to teach at a good liberal arts college where I can do research as well, and work with students who can do research with me. I have this little fear that I will wake up one morning and ask, "Wait, how did I end up being a community college teacher?"
I could go on some more but I guess I won't. Anybody hear of a (research or teaching) position for a mathematical physicist in the Boston area, let me know, 'k? :)
Anyway, I'm currently unemployed, more or less. I was a visiting assistant professor of physics at Rhode Island College in the spring, and I'm currently working on a paper with my previous post-doc advisor; he paid me for a month, but it's been at least two months so I figure I'm working half-time (though I've already been paid.) I'm working on another paper as well, one of my own, a sequel to my paper on bus routes back in 2003. I should have a first draft done soon, if anyone's interested in beta-testing it. :)
So I'm looking for a job this fall. My hope has been that I would find a sabbatical replacement, or some other last-minute teaching position. What I'm seeing more of, so far, are part-time one-class adjunct positions. I got a very quick response to my application for one of those positions. I'm a little concerned about having to string several adjunct positions together into a full-time job. Benefits aren't a concern, thanks to my wife. I suppose it is doable, and even if I don't make as much as I did before it will be enough. I'm also worried about drifting too far down the wrong career path. My goal is to teach at a good liberal arts college where I can do research as well, and work with students who can do research with me. I have this little fear that I will wake up one morning and ask, "Wait, how did I end up being a community college teacher?"
I could go on some more but I guess I won't. Anybody hear of a (research or teaching) position for a mathematical physicist in the Boston area, let me know, 'k? :)
