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[merchimerch]

Another job posting came up through a listserv that I'm on. I'm going to wait a while before submitting an application. Once again, they are looking for teaching experience. I'm not sure that TAing cuts it, and beyond that I have no teaching expereince. I am really worried about my job prospects without any teaching experience. I haven't been able to get any adjuncts while in grad school because I've been out of the country too much. I applied for summer school teaching this year and a teaching fellowship with OID and was rejected for both. I can understand why, I've only got 5 quarters of TAing as opposed to the 6 they wanted for the fellowship. And the department has lots of other more senior ABD/recent Ph.Ds who are jobless and they should get the summer school teaching gigs. Still, I'm terrified that I don't have enough experience to actually get a job when all is said and done. I'm not sure what to do. I'll pimp out my resumes wherever I end up living next year to try to get a class or two under my belt. Any ideas from the peanut gallery?

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[fallen42.livejournal.com]

You could try getting a little experience as a lecturer at one of the less snooty schools. A lot of the smaller state schools are very much focused on teaching, and that might be a good experience to suppliment your research. After a year or two of that you probably would have enough teaching experience to apply where you wanted to (supposing they are hiring in your field).

[dakotakym.livejournal.com]

Are you just looking at teaching at colleges, or are prep schools a consideration? I don't think it'd be as difficult to get into, you usually get to live there as part of the deal, and they typically have decent bennies.