See also.

You know, I once had sex with Eartha Kitt in an airplane bathroom

Sometimes the consequence for doing a good thing is that people like that you did a good thing, legality be damned.

While this does sound interesting, right now I’m largely asking so that I can formulate a generic backup plan rather than a specific backup plan. If I can avoid having to leave the program I will; and I’ll only know if I’m being forced out in either August or September of 2025 (which I think is a little bit later than it sounds like you’re looking for). I may reach out again at a later date if that’s okay.

Thanks a ton for letting me know about this though.

You need a proper teaching certification to teach, don’t you? Typically something like a master’s degree in education.

Evidently.

I’ll give it a shot. My undergrad’s career center was basically worthless for me (the one piece of advice that they would give out is, ‘make an account on HandShake’, and then they did nothing else productive), but maybe at a larger school it will be better.

I’m glad there are people who like programming more than I do! Thanks for the support.

I only spend one hour a week in my office for my office hour.

Looking at my calendar from this past semester I was in 3 courses, which each met for 3 hours had 8-10 hours of homework each week. I attended 4 weekly seminars. I taught one course which met for 4 hours, double that for class prep. I had 5 hours regularly scheduled in the tutoring center, plus an office hour. I’m slow at grading, so it often took me 4-6 hours per week. Plus an hour a week for my advising meeting, and we’re at 60 hours before I even begin talking about when I’m doing my own research - I typically try to devote my weekends and also Thursday afternoons in their entirety to either reading math books of interest to me or papers of interest to me.

So it’s not quite 90 hours a week every week. There are weeks when the tutoring lab was shortstaffed so I needed to pick up an extra three hours there. There were times when I would proctor a 3-hour exam. There were lots of severe injuries in my department this semester so I’ve covered people’s classes too. So there were a lot of 90 hour work weeks just due to the structure of everything.

Yes, my bad, I get all the TLAs mixed up.