Years as a student in higher education: 10
Degrees earned: 3
Terminal graduate degrees in writing: 2
Semesters as a substitute teacher: 4
Semesters as a high school teacher: 5 (one as an unpaid student teacher)
Sections of first-year college writing taught on a $4,000 per semester stipend: 9
Sections of first-year college writing taught as an adjunct: 7
Sections of writing or literature taught as a full-time non-tenure-track instructor: 126
Creative writing workshops taught: 20
Average student evaluation score for fiction workshops taught, on 5-point scale: 4.9
Students taught: 3,825
Hours in the classroom as a teacher of writing or literature: 8,328
Hours in a year: 8,760
Pages of student writing read, responded to, and graded: 76,500
Hours spent reading, responding to, and grading student writing: 5,100
Books published: 1 and 1 forthcoming
Additional unpublished novel manuscripts completed: 5.5
Manuscripts that were finalists in book-length writing contests: 3
Short stories published: 57
Essays published: 17
Publications officially recognized by English department or college where I worked: 0
Highest yearly salary: $45,000 w/benefits
Salary for same job within same school system last year: $36,900 w/ benefits
Salary offered for same job, same school system, Fall 2016 (didn’t take): $12,000 no ben.
Teaching job applications sent, 2015 – 2016: 80
Job interviews, 2015 – 2016: 4
Job interviews declined when it was revealed the course-load was 7 classes/semester: 1
Job offers, full-time: 0
Days currently unemployed: 154
Unemployment benefits awarded for 2016 – 2017: $7,150
Difference between unemployment benefits or working 50 hrs /wk as adjunct: – $4,850
Tax penalty paid for cashing out retirement early: $20,000
Unemployment benefits lost for cashing out retirement early: 50%
Years before I reach retirement age: 17
Number of pieces in this column: 15
Lines on curriculum vita as a result of this column: 15
Times I heard through the grapevine someone was unhappy I wrote this column: 6
Fan emails received for this column: 6
Facebook likes received for this column: 6,000
Paid to date for lifetime of writing: $8,500