[jackthetab]

AFAICT, you don't.

I reached out to the local CC years ago, with a resume of 20+ yoe in industry; a list of educational clients including NASA, IBM; local clients, industry certs; etc.

The response was "Impressive resume! Come back when you have a Master's degree."

So, screw them...

[culopatin]

Same experience. All I wanted to teach was intro to C. I took the class online. The professor’s whiteboard was MS paint. He didn’t have a Wacom or touch screen with a pen, he used the mouse. You could not tell what he was writing 80% of the time. Lectures were supposed to be 90min but they were 3h long because the guy would not stop rambling about random stuff. The classes were really bad. No one was getting anything. The assignments were very ambiguous yet strictly graded.

I already knew C and all the content of the class, so students started reaching out to me for help, the ones that cared at least.

The failure rate of the class was something like 70%… for an intro class. Madness. So I decided I wanted to help and maybe I could teach this a few hours a week. But no, they want someone with a PhD and it pays 38k (full time). No wonder they can only get people like that professor to teach that. You have to be either nuts or very passionate, in this case I got the first one.

That’s not to say all of them are like that, my algebra professor was the best one I’ve ever had.