I was a classroom adult English language instructor for a bit more than a decade and the actual teaching gave me more satisfaction than any job I had before or after. But in order to keep my position, I was required to also attend department meetings, serve on committees, and keep up with the department email listserv. These requirements, along with having no desk and computer of my own at which I could prepare for classes when I was on campus, and being low on the seniority with little choice about which classes I'd be teaching (including not being given first chance at teaching classes for which I'd written the curriculum), finally became too much of a drag and ruined the job I'd always dreamed of doing. If I could have limited my time on campus to time in the classroom and been allowed to skip the meetings and do everything else from home, I might have stayed until I retired.
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I was a classroom adult English language instructor for a bit more than a decade and the actual teaching gave me more satisfaction than any job I had before or after. But in order to keep my position, I was required to also attend department meetings, serve on committees, and keep up with the department email listserv. These requirements, along with having no desk and computer of my own at which I could prepare for classes when I was on campus, and being low on the seniority with little choice about which classes I'd be teaching (including not being given first chance at teaching classes for which I'd written the curriculum), finally became too much of a drag and ruined the job I'd always dreamed of doing. If I could have limited my time on campus to time in the classroom and been allowed to skip the meetings and do everything else from home, I might have stayed until I retired.