Any Field Not Impacted - MA and Adjunct

I have been following here on and off for almost 2 years. One of the odd things I see is that all the fields seem to be saturated from people who have degrees of one kind or another the usual suspects are history, english, religion and a few others.

Is there anything that you can do distance on an MA that there is NOT to many people applying for the same job?

On that aside I have been doing WNMU.edu for 2 terms in History and Poli Sci and moving to History and Criminal Justice. Seems like more opportunities for me to adjunct here (and maybe online). Not to mention I teach (high school) in a criminal justice environment. Does this seem to be a good idea.

 

Accounting and finance. If you can teach either of these subjects, you will be in demand.

 

I would agree with AV8R. Other than those two areas, there is not much demand and a whole lot of supply. I have no experience with accounting or finance, but I wonder if even they are offering teaching jobs. I applied for one online adjunct job in another discipline and was informed that there were over 100 applicants for one position.

 

Ok here we go then, my wife has been looking for something to do and she does both. hummmm. Where does one get a cheaper (less expensive) MA degree.

 

My local college has trouble finding math adjuncts whenever they have an opening

 

Emergency Management.

 

What real world experience would be needed? While this is a great question, I would guess that just collecting a graduate degree or 18 grad credits might not be enough to teach certain topics (unless you had a graduate degree from a great school). I would assume that teaching business classes would require the business degree plus real world experience; teaching accounting requires a CPA in many instances and experience. Topics like math, English, history, or humanities would not be the same as there is not a way to get expereince in these topics other then teaching them or if you lived 2,000 years ago to teach history and humanities. I hope this makes sense and I am certain someone that knows a heck of a lot more then me will confirm or correct this comment.

 

Statistics adjuncts are always in demand.

 

Why are all of the subjects that I hate (and suck at) the subjects that are in demand?!!! :cussing: (Rhetorical question; I know why)

 

Therein lies the rub.......most of the traditional practitioners have been limited in educational preparation. As the field pushes to be recognized as a legitimate profession, the need for academic preparation has exploded to fill the need but the traditional practioners are not educationally suited to address this. You are correct - the experience component is a large one. The good thing about this increase in educational emphasis is that many people with the experience are realizing that educational preparation opens so many more doors.