english7
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"It does not matter how many days of leave a person has. A member can invoke the SCRA for any legal proceeding, even when they are stateside, even for local cases. My husband did this twice because he could not take leave, and the judge granted it automatically without any sort of process from our lawyer other than invoking it. Leave also has to be approved by people's bosses."
He never asked his commander if he could take leave for legal proceedings. He went on a vacation, instead. Actually, I think he took two of them.
"And no, I really don't see how you feel the need for alimony for a 13 month marriage. If he was abusive then leave, get divorced and move on. You don't drag things out for two years. It reminds me of my ex that got lucky on a techinicality and was able to re-open our decree and wanted me to pay him 44K in "income splitting" even though he ditched me and my son, never paid child support, and left me to pay all the marital debt when he filed BK. Needless to say the judge did not order it."
Oh, I left alright and have been moving on ever since. I don't see how my situation is like that of your ex. There is no technicality involved in awarding temp. spousal support. It is done frequently in VA.
"I am a college adjunct professor (instructor) and I move with my husband too and have not encountered any problems like you have described, no saying they don't exist, but i have worked in two states at 3 different schools and requirements have not been that different from state to state. I did have to take a few grad courses, that did not total more than $1800 for the three."
I've found that getting hired full-time is the problem. They will have me teach all the same courses that a full-time professor does, but their policy, or whatever they call it, dictates minimum requirements for hiring full timers. The northeastern states seem to have stricter requirements.
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Miranda
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I've found that getting hired full-time is the problem. They will have me teach all the same courses that a full-time professor does, but their policy, or whatever they call it, dictates minimum requirements for hiring full timers. The northeastern states seem to have stricter requirements.
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That is true here too. I am now considered 3/4 time but I still have to have office hours and teach the same as most professors. I had a meeting and got my office hours to one day a week so I should not be to angry as I originally had two. They have all adjunct in one office with cubicles.
If you are ever looking to move I see ads every week down here in Texas (SAn Antonio) looking for adjunct. I started out working at two different schools taking 2 classes at each. Shorter semester (8 week) courses start at 2k per class and you can get up to 3K for the 16 week courses.
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english7
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Your situation sounds similar to mine. I get 2478 per class for a 16-week course. This semester, I'm teaching 4 classes, 3 different courses. Five is full time. It kills me to know how much full-time professors make to teach one more class. And they have benefits. I used to be there.
I'm teaching all four on T/R with office hours. I'm there from 8:30 to 5:30. On off days, I grade extensively and prep for next classes. Grading one set for a class takes about 5 hours. I was warned long ago that teaching English required leather buttocks. I can now verify that. :)
There is no shortage of adjunct positions anywhere. The next nearest college for me is 2-3 hours away, though. :( I'm looking into SmarthinkingTutor, online tutoring. Have you heard of it?
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Miranda
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I have a friend that does adjunct and tutors math online on the side. I will ask her what the name of the place is, I know she is contracted by the semester.
My son's math teacher is also an adjunct prof. I wonder if there are so many adjuncts open because there are so few full time slots. I have 5 classes this semester but our terms are shorter, I have only done ONE, maybe 2, 16 week courses in the last two years. We cater to working adults. I think our demographics are 28-35 year old women as the majority of students. I also have quite a bit of AD military. I also have a few regular kids, that make me NUTS!
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english7
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There are always lots of adjunct openings b/c it's much, much cheaper for colleges to hire them. They can have them teach one less course than the full timers and pay them less than 20,000 while full-time teachers teaching a full load get at least 54,000 plus benefits. They WANT to hire adjuncts. Most colleges have far greater numbers of adjuncts than full time teachers. It's not unusual for there to be about 75% adjuncts in any given division.
Thanks for checking on the online tutoring! :) That would help me so much if I could get something like that. I've applied to a few online schools, but only one has responded, and they won't tell me the salary until I go through the training. Sounds fishy to me.
I've had some traditional students who are really whacked out! Oh my! We love the older students.
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finz
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"If a man beat me up and abused me like that, I'd have no qualms whatsoever about seeking the money he was court-ordered to pay me. "
If a man beat me up, I would sue him for that assault.......not for support after a 13 month marriage
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finz
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[quote]"If he was deployed, couldn't you have lived in the marital home while the divorce was pending without fear of abuse ? "
He was not deployed until nearly a year after I left. I drove there to get my things out, at his request 4 months after I left. He changed the locks the day before I got there. By the time he deployed, I was working up here. He rented his house out while he was gone. [/quote]
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Did you file within that year when he was still home/not deployed ?
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english7
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No, finz, I did not. I believed I needed a lawyer to proceed.
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hanzblinx
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[quote] There are always lots of adjunct openings b/c it's much, much cheaper for colleges to hire them. They can have them teach one less course than the full timers and pay them less than 20,000 while full-time teachers teaching a full load get at least 54,000 plus benefits. [/quote]
Good grief I made 55K the day I graduated from college with a 4 year degree. Started making 100K at age 28. Glad I am not an educator. On the other hand, if I was an educator, I might have been educated enough to get a friggin prenup, instead of getting raped.
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yregna
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English,
It would probably go better for you if you were just honest with the people on the forum ( and yourself ).
Something like this " Hey, I'm female, I get money from men, its a heck of a lot easier than having a career..."
Women won't hate you for it, they will understand.
Men won't like you, except the next one you want to fu(k.
That fact of the matter is you beat the system, you are clever, and you use people to get money. Join the crowd. You are probably attractive. The whole equation answers itself. Just don't go around grousing how you don't get any respect.
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