| You have just received notice that your teaching | | | | constantly rising cost of gas. Driving and maintaining an |
| contract at the local junior college will not be renewed | | | | automobile is a luxury that is hard to justify when one |
| for the next semester. Your friends at the school have | | | | is out of work. |
| already been researching online adjunct job openings. | | | | Now is the time to look on the bright side of this |
| They had been telling you that layoffs were a | | | | economic situation you find at your doorstep. You |
| possibility because of the diminished state funding that | | | | have a Ph.D. You are in a position where you are |
| the legislature would probably advocate. Now it has | | | | qualified to teach students who are now taking online |
| become a reality. Money for education statewide is | | | | classes. There are students who want to change |
| being cut drastically. This personal financial problem in | | | | career options and they may be researching the |
| the middle of the worst recession in years has sent | | | | possibility of getting an online criminal justice degree. |
| you and many others into a downward mental spiral. | | | | These students will need basic English and math |
| This is not the end. Instead of being the worst thing | | | | classes. They need to know how to write coherent |
| that could happen to anyone during a downturn in the | | | | sentences. You are well qualified to teach in these |
| economy, it can become the beginning of a better life. | | | | fields. |
| If you go to the Internet and check out the application | | | | As you research the fields where you can offer your |
| forms for teaching positions at several colleges, you | | | | services, check out accredited online degree |
| will find one or more schools that can use your talents. | | | | programs. Possibilities are numerous. You are hired by |
| If you have a Ph.D., you may very well find yourself in | | | | two or three schools in different areas of this large |
| a good position to offer your services to several | | | | country. You may be able to teach several online |
| schools that offer masters degrees online. This | | | | classes that are being offered by colleges all around |
| economic downturn is presenting many opportunities | | | | the country while you are sitting in your kitchen in your |
| that did not exist just a few years ago. | | | | pajamas. |
| For the past eight years you have driven ten miles | | | | The little truck is sitting in front of your house covered |
| each way five days a week to get to the junior | | | | in pollen. You haven't driven the little dear for a week. |
| college. It was necessary to maintain your little truck in | | | | You are considering selling your truck and eliminating all |
| order to get back and forth to school. This has been a | | | | the expenses that have previously been a necessity |
| large expense cutting deeply into your income as the | | | | when you had to drive every day. The reality of your |
| recession continues. There is also the very large | | | | junior college contract not being renewed has opened |
| expense of insurance for the truck, and there is the | | | | up the new world of online adjunct job openings. |