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If you teach college classes at a state-funded academic institution for living, you don’t need anyone to tell you that the employment situation is pretty dicey these days. Entire wagon loads of college instructors are finding themselves on the grass, so to speak, as state budgets for higher education are slashed day after day. Happily, there is an alternative to this dire set of economic circumstances, and that solution is to apply for and secure numerous online adjunct faculty positions. The simple fact of the matter is that online teaching is growing by leaps and bounds because the numbers of citizens who cannot find work are returning to school in order to earn a college degree. However, the universities and colleges are staffing their faculties with adjuncts instead of full time teachers. This conjunction of adjunct employment opportunities and an ever increasing student population can translate into a healthy income for the agile college instructor.