[ssttoo]

While I wholeheartedly agree with “learning by teaching”, one question I have is whether one could teach in community college.

May be just my CC experience of study field (music) combined with locale (talent-attracting city of Los Angeles) but I hear one needs to be a PhD these days to compete for a CC professor spot.

[Spooky23]

Professor yes, adjunct no. My dad started teaching English Comp at the local community college and got me pulled in as well doing some computer science and information science classes. I started at the CC and did a few at the local state university.

Most schools are not hiring tenure track staff, and use adjuncts and contract assistant professors for the less profitable teaching roles.

I would imagine that music has a different dynamic, as lots of emerging professional musicians may be seeking those roles to get benefits, etc.

[routerl]

Yeah, you got it. This is the real answer.

The glut of PhD's is at such a level that the last teaching jobs available to industry professionals have all gone to boomers who will stay at those jobs until they die.

[prosaic-hacker]

I teach at a Vocational college the teaches entry level system administration. I am one of those boomers (1959) but I have no degrees above a Bachelors. I could not get out of the teaching because of ageism and assumed if-you-cant-do-teachism.

I took this job 15 years ago because prospective employers looked at my then 30 year career and repeatedly said you cannot adapt to new tech and are too expensive. So I took my sysadmin, programming, and management skills and taught them to younger people who did get the jobs I was rejected for. Hopefully some of my work ethic will have rubbed off on them and when they hire they will do it with less "ism".

Now I get to play with the newest tech and teach it.

[BlueTemplar]

You think they love the job so much that they are NOT currently retiring ?