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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ PS to above. For career advancement, not necessarily in academia, while being a SAHP, it better to have on the resume:

A. adjunct position for one course or sometimes two per semester
B "independent consultant" by just taking very small gig here and there
C both A and B
D a resume gap and enjoy the time with the kids since neither A nor B pays peanuts
?[/quote]

E. Build an online course in what you're an expert on instead. Since you're ready to give up your income completely, you can take this risk for the higher upside. Record what would've been your lectures and charge for the collection of videos. That way, you can have flexibility to actually enjoy time with your kids. [/quote]

Agree with one HUGE caveat.  Your course must be something for which people will pay without the promise of academic credit or a degree.  In other words, they have to buy your course for the actual knowledge you transmit, rather than credit toward an external certification or degree.  This isn't always the case, as in continuing education credit courses, but you have the additional burden of getting the state bar or other certification body to grant your online course the requisite credits.  There are certain criteria your course will have to meet, so it would behoove you to ensure that it does before you just stand in front of a camera or behind a microphone and pontificate.

Another possibility is signing on with an existing online course provider that will do all the foregoing for you.  Most of these companies, however, pay peanuts and will not pay a royalty per student who takes the online course.  Most will tell you that the course material goes stale, but this isn't really the case (even if it does, a small amount of updating is often all that's required).  Rather, they just want your expertise for cheap, while pocketing $495 per course fees (while paying developers peanuts in India to put the course into online SCORM or other format).  Gee, this kind of sounds like universities and adjunct professors![/quote]

In the end, you're probably better just starting a side consulting business and charging by the hour.[/quote]

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