I’m looking to teach and do research.

Tenure track positions are slim to none now days.

Most universities do something akin to gig work. (Isn’t that some shit? I go to school for 14 years to do gig work!!)

They hire you to teach a class at a semester-to-semester situation.

Those positions suck as there are no full time employee benefits nor security. But they are easier to find and get.

Since I’m a fresh graduate I’m looking at community colleges to start with. Then in 2 years I am hopeful I can find a university position and start research again. But you are right about competition. And at present I have nothing published. I’m hoping to get a published paper from my dissertation work but I feel like that’s 50/50.

Also I feel like I need a break from research and need to build up my syllabus courses and that takes an enormous amount of time. So I’m okay with doing teaching only for 2 years.

My first solo teaching class easily took 30+ hours a week to prepare for. Not counting the 3 hr lecture. And it was my specialty area.

I talked to a few other professors and they said that’s what they remember it being for the first time they taught each of their classes. I wasn’t expecting that.

At present I only have 1 fully prepared course. However I’m qualified to teach probably 6 courses.

So depending on what the college needs, I will almost certainly need to create new courses.

Research methods class is a favorite of mine and it just so happens most professors hate teaching it. So I think I might have a good “in” by emphasizing I’m open to teaching it.

It’s always good to know what you can do that others can’t or don’t want to do.