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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Lots of opportunities in Spook-training !

oxi · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 347 Location: elsewhere

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Maybe there is a forum like this specifically for rentiers ?

In the heat of the moment · Joined: 22 May 2015 Posts: 393 Location: Italy

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

Flannelgrungenostalgia · Joined: 10 Dec 2017 Posts: 5

^^^ Exactly what I've been saying for years. I sincerely hope it comes true this time. I wouldn't mind teaching adults again, just not ESOL. I'm done.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I tried escaping and had a difficult 10 years out of teaching. The Fates pulled me back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fates

Now i am happily retired and awaiting my imminent encounter with The Great Spirit.

Yanklonigan · Joined: 23 Jan 2017 Posts: 36

I am planning to retire from teaching in may of 2018 after almost forty years in the trenches. I was recently in Galway, Ireland to film two scenes in a movie, "A Letter from Al Moran," based upon a screenplay "Mersey Boys." I have been writing and publishing almost as long as I have been teaching. My blog is MOD EDIT

Shakey · Joined: 29 Aug 2014 Posts: 199

It runs the gamut. I've known people who have left overseas TEFL'ing and who have moved into a wide range of different jobs and careers: lawyers, human resources staff, small business operators, police officers, military officers, medical doctors, professors, licensed high school teachers, and one teacher who even returned to their home country and opened up their own immigration consultancy office after taking the needed courses and getting licensed.

But, then there are the TEFL lifers. I've always found that the longer one stays in overseas TEFL, the likelihood of ever returning to one's home country and moving into a totally unrelated career is slim. Especially when people have invested so heavily into their TEFL careers obtaining CELTAs / DELTAs, master's and doctoral degrees, etc. Also, a lot of these people have been able to eventually find university level teaching positions where they do not have to work a 40-hour work week and enjoy long summer and winter vacations. Such a lifestyle can be very addicting. Why go back to the West and face a monotonous grind, the Leftist politics, political correctness, etc.?

In the heat of the moment · Joined: 22 May 2015 Posts: 393 Location: Italy

Shakey you make a good point, why go back to the sort of lifestyle you've tried on and it didn't fit quite right? Working overseas I can choose the type of environment I please, to a certain extent. Don't want to pay taxes? The Middle East. Want eager students? Try SE Asia. Want decent Chinese food? Somewhere in China that doesn't cater to westerners. Beaches? Thailand. Culture? A lot of places have oodles of it, plenty more than a small town in the home counties. Most places have better weather too, fortunately the British Isles are relieved of their horrendous climate for two or three months of the year, which coincide with the summer holidays.

getbehindthemule · Joined: 15 Oct 2015 Posts: 712 Location: Shanghai

I tend to agree with the previous two posters. I've actually done the opposite to most as I've had a career in industry (research & development, middle & senior management positons) which spanned 12 years prior to this!
I've done 4 years of this malarky now and the lifestyle is indeed addivite. I hugely appreciate my 3.5 months of vacation! In my previous career I was lucky if I took a week off at any one time, a couple of times per year!
To go back to the grind would be very very difficult for me after this, so I'll most likely stick at it and plan some business venture in the future.

JZer · Joined: 16 Jan 2005 Posts: 3898 Location: Pittsburgh

Moma · Joined: 26 Jul 2017 Posts: 11

Here’s a slightly different view, which I’ve only recently come up with.

I left teaching over a decade ago. I always missed the travel possibilities and being a people person for want of a better expression. Whilst taking up teaching was one of my better ideas, one which I’ll never regret, I considered myself well shot of it, until recently.

I live in the UK. My wife is from Asia and wants to retire there. It’s recently dawned on me that I could afford to retire years earlier there than I could in the UK. Teaching part time there is such an obvious option too, not only for the extra income but also to meet people and avoid boredom.

So now I’m getting back into teaching with courses, summer schools and short-term contracts so I’ll be ready to teach again when retired.

This is coming from someone who until recently said never again. Never say...