In the past year, I've been told to drop several classics and substitute "more timely" material -- including television/movie-based fan fiction and blogs (!). I've been told that grammar and spelling errors are irrelevant in the face of the "innate, ingrained language knowledge" of the student. I've been told that my attendance policy is outdated and enforcing it is "too fascist and combative."
I need my job. I like teaching -- for every three dozen slack-jawed, directionless, bovine, "I'm only here because I want to party" idiots, there are two or three people there who really want to learn. (Interestingly enough, they are usually recently separated from the military, or took a few years off to work in the "real" world before they came to college.)
I'd quit in a heartbeat if I could find a job I liked as much, or that paid a decent salary.
One, get off the East Coast. Two, English graduate degree? HR needs good writers and technical writing is not a bad gig either.