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thrifty
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Why are you mentioning a job in America when you know I have no right to work there?
It was your idea to start the thread and it has backfired on with not one decent suggestion.
I am not basing my life on the results of this forum and resisited your stupid idea to start that thread until you wore me down.
There is no potential in TEFL. |
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saint57
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| Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| This is a global brawl. Dave should make a sticky in the General Discussion titled, "Thrifty vs Henry." |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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You must get out and try something else. Don't look at it as a waste. You've just done your time and now move on. Christ I've had more jobs in more fields than 'hot dinners'...[/quote
I agree with you, I would love to move on but I cannot afford to. |
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Henry_Cowell
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| thrifty wrote: |
| It was your idea to start the thread and it has backfired on with not one decent suggestion. |
What thread? This thread? I didn't start this thread or encourage it.
On that "other" thread (and other threads), you received quite a few positive responses from people who were content supporting families or who reported that it is possible. You simply weren't satisified because the jobs weren't in the UK and didn't pay 75,000 quid.
I'll ask you again: What countries would you be happy to live in? Would you be happy to live abroad the rest of your life? What is your minimum salary for supporting your family?
Your unwillingness to answer these questions proves you have no interest in improving your own life. |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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75 000 -what is that? Three times your your income?
The best you could do was 17 000 a year and a part time job. |
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Henry_Cowell
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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| thrifty wrote: |
| The best you could do was 17 000 a year and a part time job. |
Check again, Sparky. That was the lowest of four UK jobs in one post that I sent you on 3 May. The highest was 32, 240 a year, which evidently wasn't high enough for your profligate lifestyle.
Your reading skills are getting worse (if that is possible). |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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Your memory is not what it once was:
thrifty wrote:
Please provide evidence for your assertion the TEFL qualifications transfer to the state sector.
Did I say that? I think not. Read my response again, and please answer the questions.
A little while earlier you wrote:
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 8:10 pm Post subject:
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The increasingly pitiful "thrifty" wrote:
TEFL qualifications like mine do not transfer to state sector jobs that pay enough to make a living.
English-teaching skills transfer very nicely to the private and public sectors. I know that to be true in my own experience and the experience |
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Henry_Cowell
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| On May 3, Henry wrote: |
St Edmund's College �280.00 to �520.00 per week 5 day week and �340.00 to �620 per six day week
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If you have the energy of somebody who wants to provide for his family in the UK, then �32,240 quid seems quite a bit higher than �17,000. I figured you'd be happy to work six days a week. Where am I wrong? |
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Henry_Cowell
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Henry wrote: |
| English-teaching skills transfer very nicely to the private and public sectors. I know that to be true in my own experience and the experience |
So you're admitting that you don't know what a "skill set" is, even though you probably have very good skills. Why not identify and use your skills in finding your next job? That's what I did. I do not get jobs based solely on "qualifications" (i.e., certifications, degrees, diplomas, etc.). |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject: Alzheimer's TEFler |
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Caught you out with my previous post.
Nice to see you have no comment about your little error or is that mistake-I forget which it is as it has been a while since I did the dip. You being a die hard TEFLer should know. |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Henry_Cowell wrote: |
| On May 3, Henry wrote: |
St Edmund's College �280.00 to �520.00 per week 5 day week and �340.00 to �620 per six day week
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If you have the energy of somebody who wants to provide for his family in the UK, then �32,240 quid seems quite a bit higher than �17,000. I figured you'd be happy to work six days a week. Where am I wrong? |
That is a summer school you *beep*. |
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Henry_Cowell
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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What's the "error"? And why aren't you interested in a UK job that pays more than 32,000 quid?
Your repeated error was that I could come up with only 17,000 a year for your dear little family. I found a whole lot more for you in that May 3 post.
Can't get out of that one, can you?  |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Henry_Cowell wrote: |
| Henry wrote: |
| English-teaching skills transfer very nicely to the private and public sectors. I know that to be true in my own experience and the experience |
So you're admitting that you don't know what a "skill set" is, even though you probably have very good skills. Why not identify and use your skills in finding your next job? That's what I did. I do not get jobs based solely on "qualifications" (i.e., certifications, degrees, diplomas, etc.). |
You have lost me. Nobody gives a toss about Americanisms in the real job market.
TEFL is TEFL. |
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Henry_Cowell
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| You have lost me. |
You are "lost" only because you want to be.
Have you ever analyzed your skills to learn what sorts of other jobs you might be qualified for? That's not an "American" thing. That's what real men who want to take care of their families do. But not you, I guess. You'd rather stay mired in your misery -- taking your family down with you.
You're too lazy even to earn substantial summer money in the UK while you look for a university job where you can use your Master's. And you've already admitted that you don't want to earn more money as a DOS or other administrator.
What a lazy and irresponsble tosser! |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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6-8 weeks is not worth relocating for and giving up my present job.
Uni jobs in the UK do not pay enought to support a family and are not hiring (Americanism) in the Summer.
Read the UK press for the lecturers' strike over pay at present.
DOS jobs in Ist pay less because there is no overtime but when the 4 weekers or backpackers are to drunk to come in you do their classes free. |
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