I did not expect to be posting this morning. This is not helping me get out the door on time, but I read this article in the "Chronicle Careers" section of the online Chronicle of Higher Education (the part one does not need to have a subscription to read). In it Marie Kelleher writes about life as a an Adjunct/Faculty Wife. After reading this, I thought "I am not the only one (minus the children)." I am married to a full-time, tenured track faculty member. As an adjunct, I am a part of the institution, but not. While I have a full-time job somewhere else in a non-university (but academic) setting, we are dependent upon the steadiness of his income and health benefits. And, within academia his career and work is valued more than mine because I am only an adjunct and independent historian.
I am not sure what to do with that and I do not have to today, particularly since I need to get to work and stop this blogging thing. For now.
No comments:
Post a Comment