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I'm guessing you haven't talked to many adjuncts. The academic life is far from easy for most these days. See here for an example. https://www.theatlantic.com/

• ModernMech 5y ago
  I'm a professor and I talk with a lot of adjuncts. I'm not saying it's easy, and I don't think the OP of this thread was looking for an easy life. They wanted a life free of commercial toil in which they could devote themselves to raising chickens and open source work. If that's all you want to do, you can do this on an adjunct's salary. No commercial work necessary, just teaching people what you know. If you want to raise a family of 4, own property and cars, dine out, and do all the normal things that most adjuncts want to do, then yeah, that job won't afford you the life that you're looking for. Also I will note that this piece is conflating the adjunct position with the property of being non-tenured. In fact there are many non-tenured positions that are not adjunct positions, and they can pay much more. These can be called among other things, "instructor" or "research faculty" or "visiting professor".