Teach at a Community College
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Teach at a Community College
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#2I taught at my local CC and it was a blast. I was relatively young at the time and more than a few of my students were older than me, so I probably learned a lot more than they did.
I think HR (and frankly PR) departments would be very smart to connect themselves with schools in their area for tutoring or teaching at any level.
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#3I always say that I learned more while teaching technology classes in my local community than any individual student.
Like this person, it helped hone my skills communicating technical ideas to non-technical people. Most importantly, it helped me understand others' limitations and abilities of mine I had taken for granted. As a result, I learned patience and grace, that sometimes it's better to show someone while doing it yourself, rather than expecting them to master it.
I scheduled an AI class in the library this summer, because I think it's important. We'll see.
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#4Thanks for this. I think I might look into it as I finish my degree.
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#5My only gripe with this is that academic carreers and working in the field are not really interchangeable.
I would have loved helping people learn by teaching a few classes after graduating, but would any company have hired me after seeing that's the only thing I did in those years?
I love helping people and making the world better, and if I could I would switch between teaching at college and working in the industry every few years, but unfortunately it's not really possible
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#6While I wholeheartedly agree with “learning by teaching”, one question I have is whether one could teach in community college.
May be just my CC experience of study field (music) combined with locale (talent-attracting city of Los Angeles) but I hear one needs to be a PhD these days to compete for a CC professor spot.
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#7Maybe this is IT-specific advice, but I did this (in another field). It did not end well.
The students were great. But the administration of the school left a lot to be desired.
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#8While I wholeheartedly agree with “learning by teaching”, one question I have is whether one could teach in community college. May be just my CC experience of study field (music) combined with locale (talent-attracting city of Los Angeles) but I hear one needs to be a PhD these days to compete for a CC professor spot.
Yeah, you got it. This is the real answer.
The glut of PhD's is at such a level that the last teaching jobs available to industry professionals have all gone to boomers who will stay at those jobs until they die.
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#9I looked into this, as I'm starting to burn out of working in the industry.
The community colleges in my area require a surprising amount of prerequisites and pay _dismally_. Even with 15 years of industry experience, I'd need at least a year or two of additional schooling (while not being paid) to earn a paltry few hundred dollars per credit hour per semester while teaching.
Hard sell to not get paid for a few years to then take a 75-90% pay cut.
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#10My only gripe with this is that academic carreers and working in the field are not really interchangeable. I would have loved helping people learn by teaching a few classes after graduating, but would any company have hired me after seeing that's the only thing I did in those years? I love helping people and making the world better, and if I could I would switch between teaching at college and working in the industry…
Some of the lecturers at my local community college have regular jobs and do a course or two a year on the side. It's not their full-time job.