The phrase "adjunct work" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to employment or tasks that are supplementary or additional to a primary job or role, often in an academic or professional context.
Example: "Many professors engage in adjunct work at multiple institutions to supplement their income."
Alternatives: "part-time work" or "supplemental employment".
"Adjunct work isn't hard to find," she said.
I was able to take on adjunct work in my field, which gave me more family time.
Professor X, a thwarted novelist who long ago took a day job working for the government, was driven into adjunct work because he and his wife bought the wrong house at the wrong time.
"Everyman" is a comparatively slight work — or, perhaps, an adjunct work — more akin to "The Dying Animal" than to Roth's complex variations on the theme, and even, at times, in its exposed sentiment, closer to "Our Town" than to the dour European works that he invoked.
I accepted adjunct work at three different universities, but still I failed to make ends meet.
Despite a one-year delay in the employer mandate recently announced by the Obama administration, colleges that did announce restrictions on adjunct work hours have not similarly delayed the new limits.
(Do I sound bitter? It's probably just heartburn). I taught a dozen sections of rhetoric at UIUC as a graduate student and later as an adjunct, worked for five semesters as a writing consultant in the writing clinic there, and am teaching my fifth writing seminar at Princeton.
About 45 adjuncts work at the Institute, teaching English to non-native English speakers.
Part-time adjuncts work under the threat of having their classes canceled days before they start.
A friend laughingly tells X that he'd never dream of working as an adjunct, because "adjuncts work for the pleasure of feeling important and being called professor".
But it can be hard to determine how long adjuncts work; like all teachers, adjuncts spend considerable time outside of class doing work related to their courses.
