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[rxk22]

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[mitsui]

I work with a couple people that started with Interac.
People have to start somewhere, whether Interac or something else.

[Maitoshi]

I guess when I said "somewhere," I was referring to those who decide on ALT as a permanent career. From what everyone keeps saying here, it doesn't seem to lead to bigger and better things. An internship, while often unpaid, is supposed to give the intern marketable skills that can lead to a rewarding career. This is not to say that rewarding careers can't be made in TEFL, but that a stint with a dispatch company doesn't seem to further the cause so much as degrees and credentials might. An internship is supposed to serve as a stepping stone to something bigger. Don't dispatch companies market themselves to new graduates as a means of seeing the world, much as a working holiday is meant to do? If they are selling themselves as a training ground for would-be TEFLers, I'm afraid a number of people are being sold short. Just my entirely unsubstantiated opinion, which, btw, is as good as anyone else's on an anonymous forum.

[rxk22]