Hello and welcome. This is Chris Gillibault, your host of Side Us All School, bringing you episode

2,142. The podcast comes out every single day, seven days a week, and I'm so glad you are

tuning in. We're all about helping people make extra money without quitting their job.

And by using a skill, they already have. Now, we're going to talk specifically about that today,

using that skill you already have, how do you make extra money, and so on. Because we're going

to hear today from a professor of sociology, I should also clarify that she is an adjunct professor.

And if you're not familiar with the US University system, which doesn't always work that well,

shockingly, this is a way that colleges and universities can hire PhDs and other well-educated

skilled professors to teach their classes at a fraction of the cost of what they would pay a full

time professor. So now that I think about it, I guess it is a great deal for the universities,

it's just not so good for those adjunct professors. But what are you going to do in that situation?

Because someone else will take the gig if you don't. Now, I probably can't solve that problem,

but it does serve as some context for this caller's question. How can she create extra income?

Preferably, again, using the skills that she has spent years training in. Or perhaps, as I'm

going to suggest, another one of her skills or one of her related skills. But let me not get too far

ahead of things. I want you to hear directly from her. So, quick shout out from our sponsor,

then her question, and then we're going to dive into this challenge of increasing income

as an adjunct professor.

Hi, this is Megan Collingan from Buffalo, New York. I'm an adjunct professor of sociology.

I enjoy teaching, but as you may know, adjunct instructors have it pretty bad.

I make less than $3,000 for an entire course, which goes for a whole semester and requires lots

of prep work and student interaction in addition to the actual teaching. I'm not complaining,

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