Although since apparently NYC garbage collectors are more likely to be injured or die on the job than cops (at least, so sayeth Garbage Land if memory serves; I don't have the book handy) then at least there's a reason for it. Teaching isn't that hazardous.
Probably the worst I've been paid per unit effort by a reputable employer was my time as a sessional lecturer. I was paid something shy of $5K to teach a 4-month course with 3 hours of lectures per week, plus alternating-week 3-hour labs and tutorial sessions run by TAs, for 12 weeks plus a couple of lectures, plus the exams. This amounts to something around 40 hours of "contact time," which would make for an hourly wage on the order of $120/hour. Unfortunately, the preparation for that contact time and the administrative work for the course was, as you can imagine, considerably more: I estimate my net hourly wage at about $10/hour.
I learned a lot doing that, and only some of it was about teaching and electromagnetics.
Teaching is a wonderful thing to do, unless you hate it. It has to be, because nobody sane does it for the pay or the respect.
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Date: 2007-06-07 06:16 pm (UTC)Although since apparently NYC garbage collectors are more likely to be injured or die on the job than cops (at least, so sayeth Garbage Land if memory serves; I don't have the book handy) then at least there's a reason for it. Teaching isn't that hazardous.
Not yet, anyway.
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Date: 2007-06-07 06:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-07 07:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-07 07:39 pm (UTC)I learned a lot doing that, and only some of it was about teaching and electromagnetics.
Teaching is a wonderful thing to do, unless you hate it. It has to be, because nobody sane does it for the pay or the respect.