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[prytania3]

Great news! Suddenly so many options.

I might take heed to what Mended Drum said, though.

[nascar123]

So if you go with D, you'd be in the same place (adjuncting) as your current position, except your spouse moves up (career-wise).  If you stay at C, you move up (career-wise), but your spouse stays in the same place. But maybe it's your turn?

Has your spouse heard from B yet? If he receives the t-t from B, then which would you prefer, two t-t's at B or staying with the two t-t's at C?

[kamiakin]

C gets you on the TT, so if you go back on the market next year it will be as a dual TT couple with the expectation that there be TT jobs for both of you.

[secretweapon]

Any news, Grendels_mother? 

[grendels_mother]

Hi, everyone.  It's almost over.  All of our decisions have to be made by the end of the week.

D (the big name school where my husband has another offer) was unable to come up with anything for me.

My husband got an offer at B (where I also had an offer).  Problem, though:  he had a pretty horrible campus visit experience, and the department does not seem like a place he'd like to work.  The town is also not a place he would like to live.

C (my spouse's current place of employment, which also offered me a t -t job) has been somewhat vague on what the position they've extended me will entail (though that's getting better).  Also, no written offer or contract will appear until I've jumped through all the hoops (the job will be advertised, I must apply, there will be an interview, etc.), which is a bit unsettling, though I've been told I WILL be offered the job, and the ad is actually being crafted with me in mind.   Finally, I've been made to feel/ have allowed myself to fear inferior for so long within the department where I've currently been adjuncting, that I've been concerned about making the transition onto the tenure track here (though it's a split position between two depts. and my "home" will really be in the other dept.).

So: both two-body solutions are imperfect, but I think we're going to go with C.  If things don't work out for me here, we can always go on the market again (yikes) if we have to.  Staying put means we avoid making a cross-country move with two small kids, too.

I really appreciate the advice everyone's given here.   However tough these decisions have been for us, I know we're very lucky to be in this position, too.

[niceday]

C (my spouse's current place of employment, which also offered me a t -t job) has been somewhat vague on what the position they've extended me will entail (though that's getting better).  Also, no written offer or contract will appear until I've jumped through all the hoops (the job will be advertised, I must apply, there will be an interview, etc.), which is a bit unsettling, though I've been told I WILL be offered the job, and the ad is actually being crafted with me in mind.   Finally, I've been made to feel/ have allowed myself to fear inferior for so long within the department where I've currently been adjuncting, that I've been concerned about making the transition onto the tenure track here (though it's a split position between two depts. and my "home" will really be in the other dept.).

How much do you trust them? There are stories of department reneging on such offers which are verbal by definition. (It is probably illegal to guarantee you the position because if they have to do a search, it's a position for which they must do a nation-wide search). Can you get them to do the search ASAP and get you the offer ASAP? You'd hate to hear next year, "well, we meant to open that line but the budget cuts, you know, also the dean retired and the new dean doesn't want to go along with this..."

Not to scare you. Such fixed searches do happen (and do suck for the unsuspecting runner-ups) but I think solving two-body problems are also important...