So, contrary to what I had been led to believe, the job prospects do not look bleak at all for postsecondary teachers in the coming years. I came across the labor department job discussions while looking up something entirely unrelated; they seem to think that job growth in postsecondary education is projected to have much larger job growth than most other fields (except, of course, the big alternative energy boom that we're waiting on). This may be wrong, but it's certainly heartening.