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This question might have produced interesting responses:
"Other:" I would adjunct, rather than teach in high school, because there is more status.

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I have adjuncted, happily and voluntarily for six years. I had a full-time job as a mother and I worked as an adjunct to have some off time from my sons.

For the last two years, though, I wanted to teach full-time. I kept teaching as an adjunct, but I branched out and taught at other schools in the hopes that I would get ft positions there. One of the schools, remarkably, paid significantly better than the other posts I had.

Last year I taught four classes for them (a ft load) and two for my other college (which paid for my benefits and gave me no cash). That worked for a year. But after a year working ft for that school, even though they offered me 4 classes again, I said no. I'm not taking adjunct pay for ft work for more than one year. The reason I took it for a year is the year before they hired an adjunct after she taught 4 classes for a semester. So I was hoping/thinking that's what the load would lead to.

In a way I was cutting off my own nose. They paid almost double what the other schools I was working for paid. But they weren't going to give me ft pay if I was doing ft work for pt pay.

Thankfully I got a ft position (offered Aug. 6), so I don't have to adjunct.

I still might adjunct for good pay after I'm settled into this school. The dean of one of the colleges teaches at that school as an adjunct.