It typically requires an advanced degree, and a workweek somewhere in the 60-hour range, with work on weekends likely. The pay is low, there are no benefits, no job security. To get by, in the course of any given week, you'll likely have to commute to several, often widely-scattered job sites.
Pay is low, benefits are thin and the stairway to full-time employment is hard to find.
Click here for some details. The pay is low, there are no benefits, no job security. To get by, in the course of any given week, you'll likely have to commute to several, often widely-scattered job sites. According to the U.S. Department of Education, between 1995 and 1997 more than two-thirds of new professors were hired as adjuncts. The universities have created a mortarboard ceiling and adjuncts are downstairs for good.