I am an adjunct whore.

From semester-to-semester, I do tricks, my adjunct legs spread wide, willing to settle for a pittance for my services.

I am cheap. I am expendable. I am powerless.

Should I make waves, I will be dismissed, for the next adjunct whore is standing in line, waiting for my crumbs. I will do whatever academic tricks my administration wants me to do, no matter how repugnant.

I am also a forever-adjunct. My university/college/tech school has decided, “Why buy the full package when classes can be serviced for practically nothing?”

I do not expect sympathy—I have made my own academic bed, my adjunct whoredom sealed. You see, I actually believed my chair when years ago he/she “hinted” that I would likely be promoted to a real job. Good intentions, change of administration, a too-familiar story.

Remember this, adjunct whores:

You are in this alone.

Your full-time colleagues and fellow adjunct whores, who are too busy sucking up, will not help you. We are all too busy looking after Number One.

Love academe, but trust no one, especially administrators.

Until I retire, I shall remain an adjunct whore.


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Calling All Adjunct Whores: Your Horror Story

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Calling All Adjunct Whores: Your "Fuzzy" and "Warm" Story

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Monday, May 17, 2010

No Pictures, No Frills Blog

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Some bloggers write for fame and/or profit.

I don't give a shit about those things. I just want to rant and spew.

I'm writing this, a writer-based form of literary masturbation, just for my own entertainment.

Get over it.

So what if I'm pissing in the wind, just as long as I'm pissing away from my direction?

What you see is all you will get. No artwork, no photos, and no YouTube, unless it's an integral part of the content. From a blogger's perspective, those bells and whistles are too distracting and take away from the real intent of this blog.

You may comment, but at your peril, especially if my BS meter goes off.

I'm liable to rip you a wide one, for this is my kingdom, and here I rule. If you are an asshole administrator, especially from my school, I'll be especially rough on you.

Oh, wait, I'm going to be rough on you, no matter what.

Have a nice day!

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