Angellous is looking for a job... (choice, attend, churches, pray)

[angellous_evangellous]

Originally Posted by Buttercup

Well, he is going to graduate with an International Baccalaureate Diploma and has taken all AP courses the last two years, but, we'll see.

Wow, that sounds cool. I'm sure that colleges will contact him if he attracts their attention through his SAT (or other test) scores, and I'll bet that some colleges even recruit students from his dipolma program.

Another route would be going to a Christian college/university where he can major in religion. That's what I did. It wasn't very expensive - about $10k a year, and it had a great scholarship program (it's gone now...) when I was there. A master of divinity is just a bachelors' degree - usually about 96-136 hours of fluff. If he gets a BA in religion from a Christian college, he'll receive the same preparation for ministry and can double-major in something like business, where he can get a real job if needed.

[ChrisP]

Originally Posted by angellous_evangellous

As many of ya'll know, I'm in my senior year in a New Testament phd program. I've got a lot of stuff going on now.... tweaking stuff for publications, preparing for exams, and fighting a case of senioritis (not wanting to do anything, which accounts for the inordinate amount of time on RF lately), and preparing for my dissertation. Publication is everything.

Anyway, this is of particular interest I think for Christians, because it's possible that I will end up on faculty at a seminary or otherwise religious school. My first choice, however, is that I will end up in a rediculously high paying job at a university.

I've found that several universities are hiring ABD students (all but dissertation) as professors (a real job) which is what I will be soon. I finish my courses in the spring (only ONE more paper!!!!) and then take a laundry list of exams, and then I am hirable.

I'd appreciate prayers and best wishes that I can find a job in the coming year -- not to mention that my work will be effective and fruitful right now. I'd love to start teaching in the Fall 2009, but it will most likely be Fall 2010. In any case, I'm financially able to search for a whole year, and after that, I just don't know.

I think you'll find a year is pleeeeeeeeenty mate. Anyway, I wish you good luck all the same, especially in the "boss" stakes... a good one makes or breaks a job.