dsi1 wrote:
> Orlando Enrique Fiol wrote:

>> I'm totally
>> blind with an ivy league Ph.D. in music theory. No institution has been willing
>> to take a chance and hire me, ostensibly because I lack collegiate teaching
>> experience. Well, to all the search committee smarty-pants, how is any
>> candidate supposed to acquire requisite experience if every institution denies
>> them employment? Are we supposed to build our own universities in order to give
>> ourselves teaching experience?
>
> Hopefully, someone will be bold enough to take a chance on you.

Ivy league Ph.D in music theory is certainly something to be proud of
but has limited employment opportunities.

My thoughts:
- take some teaching classes/credits

- maybe your alma matter will let you be a teaching
assistant even if just a volunteer at first to get experience.

- offer your time to a community college for a bit just to get teaching
experience. My local community college often hires experts in the field
to teach certain classes. They have no "teaching" credits but they do
thoroughly know the subject and they are given guidelines of what to teach.