A $100K Adjunct

This guy has kind of an abrasive, condescending tone, but I can’t help but think he has a point in the advice he gives to humanities grad students who may want to make a decent living.  The takeaway is: make yourself useful instead of waiting for people to appreciate you

I’m flourishing, making $100,000 a year as an adjunct, working nine months out of 12. This winter, as most of the people I know teaching literature were shivering in the cold and dark of the upper Midwest while eating ramen, I flew to Florida to bask in the sun and drink with Gore Vidal at the Key West Literary Seminar.

Adjuncting is the way of the future. Make no mistake about it: In 20 years, there won’t exist more than a handful of tenured professors. Universities want cheap, cheap labor, as much of it as they can get. While many lament that state of affairs, I embrace it and invite other graduate students and newly minted untouchables to do the same.