[iamnottheenemy]

Add me to the list. PhD and two Masters, taught for nine years. I'm another who turned to my research skills immediately after BD to find answers.

[Reallytrying]

Putting my hand up too - I am a professor of psychology. 

[MyBrainIsBroken]

Wow, psychology, law, economics, history, humanities, we could easily start an MLC University.

My EMT instructor seems to like me and has mentioned to me a couple of times now that after he sees the students exam grades he usually asks one or two if they'd like to train with him to become an instructor so I think there's a possibility I could also one day be an EMS instructor.

I'm not sure how IT would fit into an MLC University but I could see a place for Emergency Medicine. 

[handpuppets]

Not currently teaching (but have two education degrees, BS/MA). Am involved in education policy at the state and national level. Background in academic computing and educational technology.

[leftbehindoak]

One more here. Tenured engineering research faculty member. Just joined this forum.
Maybe there are a lot of us here because we work in a profession that has its own codes of conduct. We have the time flexibility to support our spouses, give of ourselves endlessly, and going by the usual bromides on the ingredients of successful relationships, we just do not see anything like this happening to us. 

We aren't immune. Just more easily exploitable.

This does not mean our profession does not have its blackguards, but those are so notorious locally that they stick out.

[MyBrainIsBroken]

I wonder if there really are a lot of teachers here or if it just seems like it. We've had 24 posts so far, which seems like a lot, but how many forum members are there? How many actively post? I'd bet there are a lot more than 24.

[Reinventing]

Yes,  faculty and administration.

[Medusa]

Wow, psychology, law, economics, history, humanities, we could easily start an MLC University.

I'm not sure how IT would fit into an MLC University but I could see a place for Emergency Medicine.  

Brain, you could teach the course about hacking into accounts to catch them at what they're doing! 

I'm amazed at how many of us are in higher Ed! 

[MyBrainIsBroken]

I do teach cyber-security and the course that I'm going to be teaching next semester is designed to teach students how to break into computers and computer networks so they'll know how to protect their computers and networks from hackers. I also teach computer forensics so I could teach LBSes how to do deep data searches  on computers, networks, and social media sites. But my advice to the LBS would generally be that you're better off not knowing.

On the other hand, maybe we could concentrate on launching attacks against OPs. Maybe start by erasing their identities.   

[onlyjo]

wow again (after reading about Medusa's NEW JOB, which was the first wow!) educational administration--high school director

Brain--fellow librarian here, MLIS with more focus on the "L" than the "S" but am kicking myself now for not taking systems admin when i was in grad school.  taught first as school librarian before moving into admin  and have the opportunity to "teach" every day because i work in a small school and really get to know my students .  have several certificates under my belt and toying with the idea of getting either MBA or M.Ed but the programs here aren't great so would have to be online.  

we're thinkers, maybe.  same as many who have posted on this thread, i was certain there was a "why" when all the $h!te with down with the MLCer...and there is or was--but it's a "why" that is way too variable and varied for me to do anything about.  i choose to think: gee--that MLCer is one firetrucked up dude!  and really, distilled, that's the case.  

it's human nature, though, to try to sort things out, all in the effort I suppose, to figure out where we fit into our world.  I think my brain works like a librarian's brain, though, and I have MUCH more of a tendency to classify and sort things--events, people, ideas--not stuff, though.  my desk is a mess. i'm terrible at the actual physical act of filing papers away.   when MLC hits our families and loved ones, we work so hard to try to "sort it out", and I think especially those of us who are teachers because really, at the end of the day, we are accustomed and comfortable with asking our students to THINK--think about what they're doing, think about what they're learning, think about how they're going to apply what they have learned...MLC is anathema to this.  which is why, maybe, we teachers are totally derailed...
just some ramblings for today.

and just keepin' on keepin' on--like the rest of you.
onlyjo

p.s. Brain--agree with Medusa.  I CHOSE sane.  actively.  I had to in order to save myself. (thought about your Emergency Med idea and my first thought was "put the oxygen mask on yourself first"--ha1)  i no longer get the punch in the gut, because i ACTIVELY CHOSE to remove myself from the MLCer's crazy.  He currently resides way the hell out on low rent lane in crazytown.  i live on serenity street in saneland.  yes i love the man, broken as he is.  no i don't want to have anything to do with him because he's one angry son-of-a b*tc#, and has been for years.