adjunct instructor

instructional assistant

tutor

vice president of administration

clerical worker

Los-Angeles-Community-College-District

I had the privileged of helping disabled college level students with mapping out their futures. Starting with finding fields of study best suited for their interest. Creating a muti-tiered goal plan with realistic goals. Working in groups or individually to help comprehension of given subjects. Utilizing case files to track individual progress and setting new goals with students. The team of tutors I worked with acted like a finely tuned sports car, everyone firing at the right time to produce the most horse power. The most enjoyable part of the job was watching students finally understand something or seeing a familiar thing in a different light. This also leads to the worst or hardest part of the job, in reality we work ourselves out of a job, The better we are at our job the less the students need us.

As a full-time faculty member/program director, my work experience was "great."  I directed a transfer program for working adults.  During my time as Director, the program was responsible for the transferring of (literally) thousands of working adults to 4-year institutions.  I enjoyed mentoring students on the courses to take (for transfer) and on diverse matters related to their personal concerns.  I also taught classes in a variety of subjects--U.S. History, Humanities, Critical Thinking, Ethics, and Sociology.  I immensely enjoyed teaching the large numbers of students who enrolled in my classes.  As a PT-Coordinator and a new group of administrators, my current experience has been less than enjoyable---not because of my performance, but because of the political morass my immediate supervisor found himself in.  He retired; the administration wishes to retain me; however, being retired, I am more interested in teaching than in playing politics.

•	Help students enroll at the college
•	Provide student orientations for all programs on campus
•	Determine eligibility and enrollment process for students participating in CalWORKs
•	Submit supportive services request as needed on a case-by-case basis
•	Complete monthly reports and ensure that they are correctly filled out
•	Fax and email paperwork to DPSS
•	Assist customer service rep with handling phone calls and booking appointments
•	Provide customer service
•	Answer phone calls and help counselors and case managers with different paperwork
•	Schedule different events regarding four different programs 
•	Create agendas regarding four programs
•	Advertise different workshops for healthy living throughout the Community College District
•	Reserve locations for all workshops and trainings
•	Order supplies for the office
•	Order food and beverages for a large number of supervisors undergoing training
•	Schedule appointments for my immediate supervisor

So you want to be a teacher?  Work here for a few years and it will destroy that desire. Work here for ten years and it will destroy your will to live as well. Both students and administration  are racist and sexist for the most part. I feel I made a difference in the lives of a few students but in the end there were too many backwards, absurd, and insulting aspects to this job. Being falsely accused of things I simply didn’t do, being given the incentive to do as little as possible, and having a largely entitled student body are just three examples of what I went through there.  I’m so glad I don’t work here anymore. Given what the constant stress and anxiety it caused me, my family is also very happy that I left. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The joy I get keeping students  and staff happy  and the environment  clean as I can possibly  get it 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
My superiors asking for the  impossible  knowing  students  and staff around  some things are impossible to  do 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Environment  is ok but our moral is down so it gets hard some time but it's all walks of culture  so it's never a dull  moment  

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day  is covering  two floors of cleaning  dusting mopping offices restrooms hallways classrooms  and administrative  offices trying to  get as much work as I can in one day

I love Trade Tech. The school is very unique, how it focuses on trades. The campus isn’t very pretty. Looks very industrial. But the people here, the students, the teachers and the staff are all very great. Very diverse campus. It’s just a management here really sucks from the top all the way down to the bottom. The president changes like every two or three years. There seems to be a scandal constantly. Management are clueless on how to raise the morale or to keep things flowing in the fair way. I work in facilities, and it’s a great job if you just mind your own business. But they don’t care for your promotion potential or anything else. You could just hide all day if you wanted and do the minimum.

Learned about processing new books and periodicals, and removing obsolente books, including data base updating. Supervisors were mostly easy-going, and co-workers were mostly pleasant. Occasionally patrons could be somewhat difficult when they were unable or unwilling to pay fines. Business was rarely hectic in the evening, mostly easy work most days and nights. Many interesting books and magazines in collection of over 130,000 books.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Working in a multicultural, diverse, collegial, academic atmosphere.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Sometimes struggling against nepotism. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Apparently pleasant.
There should be more control from the Administration on each department activities, like class assignment, maintaining the seniority and so on. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Mostly spending the day in a friendly atmosphere, except for the days when leadership goes wrong.

The LACCD is amazing to work for if you are looking for a place to develop skills while attending college, however, the administration is full of brown nosers who get far ahead of you even if you are 100 times more competent. The adminstration loves themselves and anyone who inflates their egos. All that being said its still hard to get into the district in a classified position due to all the red tape, standardized tests that have nothing to do with the work that you will be doing, and finally the supervision that will think nothing of you unless you constantly suck up. Even the suck ups are not guaranteed a job.

Union protected with a well defined contract. Great benefits including healthcare and pension.
Problem lies in advancement and job satisfaction.
Work and salary are defined by job classification, not ability or performance. Tendency towards lowest common denominator performance and faculty members are very entitled and often rude to staff.
If you are looking for security and can be satisfied with meeting expectation rather than exceeding them, this would be the place for you.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Adjunct instructor 7 salaries reported	$25.62 per hour
Instructional assistant 1 salary reported	$74,313 per year
Tutor 3 salaries reported	$19.10 per hour
Vice president of administration 8 salaries reported	$208,810 per year
Clerical worker 2 salaries reported	$5,278 per month

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