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Argh. So I was scheduled to teach a summer course, one of the 5-days-a-week for 6 weeks deals. It's a course I've taught before but I would be using a new book and my powerpoints are in a different format due to a change in classrooms.
For the past few weeks I've only had 2 students signed up so I assumed it would be canceled. Financially stressful, but more dissertation time. Okay. Also made some of my summer weekend plans less stressful.
Now I have 7 students which is in this gray area. I can teach the course, but for 17% less than my full salary (I'm not sure how many I need to make full salary, it depends on what they pay for tuition, but normally I have 10 or so.) The adjunct salary isn't great already, but some money > no money.
Also I ordered a desk copy of the text book from the publishers a month ago and it hasn't arrived.
The course is scheduled to start next week.
So I have to figure out if I'm going to teach it, then pay for the book myself (the correct edition isn't in the library) plus overnight shipping, and scramble for class prep. (Which shouldn't be awful because I've taught it before.) But still stressful.
Oh and this weekend we're doing a two-day-out-of-town ravenchase. *facepalm*
What to do? Effectively how (non) valuable is my time and how much do we need the money? Would the time I spend teaching really be spent on the dissertation instead? Or would getting me to campus every day actually help my dissertation work? (If students drop the class am I paid even less money?) Blargh. I don't know.
For the past few weeks I've only had 2 students signed up so I assumed it would be canceled. Financially stressful, but more dissertation time. Okay. Also made some of my summer weekend plans less stressful.
Now I have 7 students which is in this gray area. I can teach the course, but for 17% less than my full salary (I'm not sure how many I need to make full salary, it depends on what they pay for tuition, but normally I have 10 or so.) The adjunct salary isn't great already, but some money > no money.
Also I ordered a desk copy of the text book from the publishers a month ago and it hasn't arrived.
The course is scheduled to start next week.
So I have to figure out if I'm going to teach it, then pay for the book myself (the correct edition isn't in the library) plus overnight shipping, and scramble for class prep. (Which shouldn't be awful because I've taught it before.) But still stressful.
Oh and this weekend we're doing a two-day-out-of-town ravenchase. *facepalm*
What to do? Effectively how (non) valuable is my time and how much do we need the money? Would the time I spend teaching really be spent on the dissertation instead? Or would getting me to campus every day actually help my dissertation work? (If students drop the class am I paid even less money?) Blargh. I don't know.
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