Any intellectual work requires a reward other than the satisfaction derived from the mental effort, and teaching college students is no different in that regard. In fact, it could be said that college instruction is a prime candidate for remunerative sustenance since it takes real money to pay the bills outside of and after class. However, most traditional adjunct college teachers, and that is about seventy percent of the entire college faculty these days due to the insistence of college and university administrators on continually paying bargain amounts for intellectual labor exerted in the each college class by the adjunct professor. The solution to this income problem, and that is putting the issue in a very generous light, is to teach online college courses for online schools that offer their students an accredited bachelor degree online or an online master’s degree.

While the online college courses do not generally pay more than the physical college classes, the ability to teach online for online accounting schools, online criminal justice schools and online business schools thousands of miles away from the location of the online adjunct instructor and the opportunity to fill an online teaching schedule with as many as a dozen or more, both of which would be an impossibility for an adjunct college professor teaching on a physical college or university campus, makes the effort to master the computer skills necessary to navigate in and out of accredited online college degree programs every day well worth the effort. Given the absence of even traditional adjunct college teaching positions at physical colleges and universities for those scholars with an earned graduate degree in an area of the liberal arts such as English, it is especially difficult at this juncture in the economic debacle to find any post-secondary work at all. However, for the alert individual with a Ph.D. or master’s degree in English, it is possible to plant the seed of academic teaching with online college composition positions.

What makes a graduate degree in English especially advantageous in the area of online teaching is that every online degree programs requires it college students to enroll in and pass online college classes in basic composition. This is completely understandable from the schools perspective since basic writing skills are necessary to any future success, Form the perspective on the online English instructor teaching multiple online classes of composition the advantage that college students pursuing an associate degree in accounting online, a hotel management degree online or a human resources degree online will be required to take at least one of two composition classes in order to earn an online bachelor degree.

While a traditional composition instructor teaching on and adjunct basis for one or possibly two physical post-secondary academic institutions might have three or four college classes in the teaching schedule, it is possible for an online adjunct instructor teaching composition to have eight to ten online composition courses in the online teaching schedule. In this way, it is possible to plant the seed of academic teaching with online college adjunct composition positions.