Reply #24: I'm glad things worked out well for you.

[raccoon]

After I left a certain job I had about 20 years ago, several people said I looked relaxed. This job was at a place that was a real sweatshop, and there was a lot of turnover there. One guy who worked there went postal, not at the workplace, but at the apartment he shared with another contract worker, and shot his roommate, the roommate's wife, and the roommate's dog.

Community colleges in my area (and I expect, 4 year colleges too--I just happened to be more in the know about community colleges)have gone more and more to adjunct faculty. And part-time, unbenefited staff as well.

From time to time, I've thought that I wished I could've been a college professor. Now I'm glad I'm not. I might could've stood trying to jump through all those hoops when I was younger, but not now. I'd have probably not made it because of the politics; I used to be dumb as rocks about office politics. In about the last decade or so, I've been learning. Wish I'd have known it all 40 years ago. Oh, well.