Living the Good Life While Teaching On-Line

How can anyone say that he has a modest income while earning $100,000 ? This article (“Living the Good Life While Teaching On-Line,” January/February 2003) made me laugh, and then want to cry.

My wife and I are struggling to raise a child on a combined income of $30,000 Canadian, because even part-time sessional appointments are few and far between due to intense competition. After abandoning notions of a tenured career in history years ago, I still held on to the belief that there would be a full-time sessional position somewhere, but this has not been the case, and the Adjunct Advocate's anecdotal stories from time to time have proven it also to be true elsewhere.

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