Stephen wrote:
> On 16/05/2010 7:30 AM, Jim Charter wrote:
> 
>> As it happens, here I am at 2am Sunday morning working on PowerPoint
>> presentations for the class I teach on Monday. I get paid by the hour
>> for time in the classroom. This time I spend now would be tolerably
>> classified as 'time given' to the job. A job that has zero security.
>> But...this time spent: makes the job in the classroom easier, elevates
>> the quality of my teaching, and elevates the reputation of the program.
>> Or so I hope.
> 

> work outside working hours. Always improving and preparing.
> 
>> Have I forgotten the bitter lesson learned when the
>> corporate world gave me the boot? Not sure. I believe I do this more for
>> myself now, not so to please others. But it is difficult to be sure.
> 
> It is difficult, all those years of giving your all leaves ingrained 
> habits.
> 
>> As far as just taking the money? Yes, but the real value of this gig 
>> is the
>> health care benefits. And for that I need to stay around.
>>
> 
> 



> 
Briefly, with me you're preaching to the choir. I'm now in NYC but grew 
up in Canada.  The decision my wife and I made, to change from the plan 
we had, quite expensive, but the only one we could qualify for, to the 
current plan, completely free but married to a job I must be 
'reinstated' to every six months, was an agonizing one.  And something 
as simple as a change in TLC directors could easily result in no more 
job for Jim, and no health care plan at all.

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