Sorry to bug you since this is unrelated. I'm a huge fan of teaching others and I was wondering how you got to be an external lecturer at a college? I'd love to teach classes related to software engineering and data structures. Would you mind emailing me (in my profile) about this?
So this is what happened for me: I went for a walk in the forest with my wife and some of her friends.
There was one friend that had an husband working at university.
We started talking and basically we discovered what he was teaching really related for what I do for work so he asked me to become a "mentor" meaning a professional that helps students with their thesys.
In the meantime I went to talk during his class about product management as an engineer where basically I said "I'm an engineer like you, go and talk to customers, it's part of the job", plus extreme programming stuff etc...
After that there was a position open and this professor recommended me because I told him it was one of my goals to be a teacher as well.
And then from there I met the head of dept. He was happy with me being versatile, I usually handle C, database design or java.
But the usual stuff is go to the university you like an look for open positions.
I need to get confirmed every semester and apply again. Usually this job is done by people with a main job and sometimes it happens you don't have time in a semester.
I’d imagine you look for job openings for “adjunct professor” or “instructor” at universities. You can look forward to part-time employment with no benefits and no chance for tenure (this isn’t a dig at adjunct faculty, it’s unfair how it works in the US). Depending on the field of study and school, you need anywhere from bachelors to a PhD to qualify.
