ON A MODEST annual household income of just under $100,000 Canadian ($64,000 in U.S. dollars), my young family of four was struggling to keep up with the Joneses. So a few years ago, I decided to make some lifestyle changes and left my career as an investment advisor to teach on-line and work from home. This provided a means to reduce my expenses, nominalize my income taxes, spend more time with my young family, and enjoy the tranquility next to the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. I find the ubiquitous and asynchronous qualities of on-line instructing to be a major lifestyle advantage, not the least of which is the fact that both my wife and I can now freely indulge our love of skiing and water recreation.

I began my on-line teaching career after responding to an advertisement in 2000 by Cardean University in Canada’s nationally distributed newspaper, the Toronto Globe & Mail.

Cardean University, owned by Unext.com and based out of Deerfield, Illinois, is an on-line learning community for working professionals. Through its adjunct recruitment process, Cardean was interested in building a pool of well-qualified instructors with backgrounds from a diversity of regions around the world to provide an adjunct base which was more representative and actively involved within the global marketplace.

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