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How to do my best to avoid being an adjunct for the rest of my life?

Hi all,

  
I'm a senior in high school going to college this fall, and I'm confident that I want to teach. I've heard the horror stories of the 12k/yr adjuncts who never get to study the stuff they want to, and I'd like to know A) the truth (if anything) behind that and B) the best ways to avoid that scenario. I'm majoring in English lit, if that matters.
gpt
I'd say consider switching from English lit to be brutally honest.

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The factor that decides the number of crappy teaching positions is the **ratio of learners to researchers.** For english lit, a lot of people want to learn, but not much research gets done because nobody wants to fund it. So there are a lot of adjunct teaching positions. For something like computer vision, there's a lot of research going on compared to the number of people doing it for undergrad.

If you do want to get to the top of your field in English lit, you just have to work insanely hard and beat everyone else.