I had long felt called to be a college professor, so in 2002 I left my cushy, high-paying engineering job to accept a position as an Assistant Professor of Physics at a local community college in the mid-west. The college seemed excited to have me and soon asked me to forward my curriculum vitae and course syllabi to the college partnership office which was negotiating for credits in the community college courses to transfer toward engineering degrees at a nearby four year university...
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