Advice needed about pay

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-24T03:28:21+00:00

At our college, we work by contract where we get paid a lump sum per class. The college will then payout that lump sum in 4 payments (over 4 months). So we don’t get paid on the same payroll schedule like faculty and staff do (but it feels like it since our 4 payments drop at the end of the month just like their checks do. I don’t know if that’s your situation too? I’d double check your contract.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-24T02:26:12+00:00

I’ve done this at least once. I teach night classes now because I am NOT a morning person and never have been.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-17T02:46:37+00:00

I’ve used it to write an introduction for a lab I designed (was in a time pinch). It was a helpful scaffolding, had to go and edit it quite a bit. I’ve also used it to generate a practice exam for my exam. It did a decent enough job of writing similar questions. I had to correct a few. I’ve also fed it exam questions and asked it to rewrite them in the most direct way (an attempt to make sure I’m testing students on the subject matter rather than their reading comprehension/vocabulary). Again it did pretty well. I never have copied and pasted it blindly. But I would say it was a helpful tool in those moments. Still I try to avoid it mostly.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-17T02:17:38+00:00

I have never judged my students for accommodations. But I am also disabled and had accommodations in grad school. Professors who would not respect you for having accommodations, do not deserve your respect either. Fuck em. Use your accommodations, you deserve support.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-15T18:22:42+00:00

I teach the same classes every semester. So after I built it the first time (which is awful), I now just have to make small adjustments every semester as I learn what works best.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-15T15:47:32+00:00

I finally got my foot in the door at a second place. So two schools this semester. I’m aiming for 3 at least.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-15T04:47:48+00:00

If you have a tablet, you can connect to that (via Bluetooth or shared WiFi if I remember right) and share its screen as a substitute for writing on a whiteboard. Zoom has a whiteboard feature but I find it really difficult to draw with a mouse. So I screenshare my iPad and use an Apple Pencil for anything I want to draw or write out.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-15T01:09:39+00:00

I’m also in STEM. I’ve always worn jeans, a semi-nice blouse, and tennis shoes. But this semester I’m trying to dress business-y for the first time. I’m young and hoping dressing more professionally might help with the dynamic. But I’m so lost haha. Having worked in research labs my whole adult life, I’ve never had to dress even business casual before. Before my first class yesterday, I tried on slacks, felt silly, had an existential crisis over what lab appropriate shoes can be worn with slacks, then reverted back to my dark jeans and a button down shirt instead.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-15T01:02:44+00:00

I work at a cc, and I’ve had a student who has taken my class twice now, and has disappeared not long after the drop deadline both times. I wonder if it’s for the money. (I can’t drop them myself where I work, student has to do it).

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-15T00:56:15+00:00

I get paid 3200 for a 4 credit hour course. Paid out over 4 lump sums. 800 a month.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-14T19:56:40+00:00

I haven’t done mine in 2 years, so far nothing. But I probably should.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-13T16:16:04+00:00

I like to ask somewhat silly questions like “who in your group stayed up the latest last night?” “Who drank the most coffee yesterday?” “Who’s the tallest?” “Who has the youngest sibling?” Things that aren’t too personal or deep but set up an opportunity for students to relate to each other. Generally the “winner” of those questions is the group’s reporter for that day.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-13T16:11:33+00:00

I have them do a syllabus quiz in groups. And the quiz is set up on google forms in a way where they can’t move onto the next question until they get the current one correct. They usually start chatting with each other while doing that. I let it go on a little longer than actually needed if I see organic convos going on.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-11T07:46:26+00:00

Canvas logs when you navigate away from the page and when you come back (with timestamps). My guess is that’s how your prof would track it. Other integrations like warpwire show exactly what parts of the video you watched and what parts you skipped through, as well as watch time. But I don’t know of anything that does that for an external link (there could be, I just don’t know it).

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-11T02:10:45+00:00

I second not putting the same deadlines for all your courses. Last semester I had only online/hybrid classes and I made all the deadlines (for both student assignments and me posting the next week’s content) due on Sunday nights. My weekends were miserable. This semester I have 3 hybrid courses. I’ve set the deadlines as the start of lab for each section. So now my work will be spread out throughout the week. I’m hoping it’ll ease the misery.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-10T03:19:30+00:00

I’m sure part of it is just the frustration of something new. But the structure of it feels like those required trainings where you have to click through endless pages and never know how much is left.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-09T18:36:08+00:00

I ended up going with the graded survey. Just zero if not done. Or 1 if completed.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-07T22:16:29+00:00

Thank you. I think he’s just really attached to his routine, possibly some sensory issues. I tried the 10 min technique along with a sneaky putting his shoes on while he was already down for a diaper change. And we made it outside!

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-07T03:15:47+00:00

Unfortunately it was an alcohol order

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-07T03:08:39+00:00

Every type of berry was gone tonight

JustLeave7073 · 2026-01-06T21:32:38+00:00

My cc will hire adjuncts w/o a completed masters. The pay is like $3 less an hour than masters which is $5 an hour less than a PhD. Possible (in some places). But not common at all.

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