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GambateBingBangBOOM · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan

JK Rowling became a writer.

Have you thought of getting a copy of "What Color Is Your Parachute?"

You can also save and go back to school- get a postgrad in another work area and work in that.

Public Relations and possibly Human Resources are two areas that many JETs get into. The most common thing JETs seem to say they are doing is "Getting my MA". After which MAYBE they can get a job, it depends on what their MA will be in.

Basically, you can get into whatever you're qualified to get into. If you came overseas immediately upon graduation from university, then maybe you aren't qualified to do a whole lot else right now, and have to go back to school.

A LOT of people get back to their home country and flounder because they assumed that teaching overseas would help them get some sort of office job in their home country.

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

Justin Trullinger · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:27 pm Post subject:

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

johnslat · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 1:29 am Post subject:

Retire?
Excuse me whilst I check a dictionary.
Regards,
John

jgmodlin · Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 120 Location: USA

basiltherat · Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 952

Settle in a place where we have the right to own property (not my home country). Having a good-value, medium-sized, 2-bedroom apartment (in a relatively small village) with a balcony overlooking a small fishing harbour. In a country with an overall warm climate, where the vast majority of people speak English and where western food and other goodies are easily obtainable. A place where we have peace of mind without all the political and economic b*ll*cks that exist in many other countries .... including my own.

A place which doesn't cost a lot to live in. A place where medical treatment is more or less immediate, of a reasonably good standard, of good value and can be trusted. A place which doesn't levy ridiculous taxes and unjust costs on the population like UK council tax, HIPs, maintenance fees, land rental etc . A place where we are not constantly 'spied' upon by the authorities (UK).

A place where we can be left alone by the authorities to live out our final few years on this planet but also a place where we can make good friends. A place where public transportation is good-value, efficient and reliable.

An apartment within striking distance of an airport from where my wife (a journalist/news correspondent) can travel from to carry out her work .... while I sip ice-cold orange juice on the balcony overlooking the said harbour.

As far as what I would do ? Very likely, help my wife. She's got a hell of a job. Enough work for 3 people !
Best
Basil Smile

khmerhit · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 4:09 pm Post subject:

after retiring from esl, i returned to canuckistan and entered the culture shock unit, a tavern called the pilot tavern at the crossroads of yonge and bloor, for nigh on a decade.

C A M B O D I A

try it and see Cool

GambateBingBangBOOM · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan

So do you work at the Pilot? Or maybe so some jazz playing at the Pilot? Or the Pilot is just your hangout and you work doing something completely unrelated to either the Pilot or ESL?

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:19 am Post subject:

GambateBingBangBOOM · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

johnslat · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:28 pm Post subject:

Dear naturegirl

This may be what they were talking about:

A statement from Bloomsbury claimed the allegations of plagiarism were 'unfounded, unsubstantiated and untrue'.
'JK Rowling had never heard of Adrian Jacobs nor seen, read or heard of his book Willy the Wizard until this claim was first made in 2004 - almost seven years after the publication of the first book in the highly publicised Harry Potter series - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and after the publication of the first five books in the Harry Potter series', the statement said.
It continued: 'Willy the Wizard is a very insubstantial booklet running to 36 pages which had very limited distribution. The central character of Willy the Wizard is not a young wizard and the book does not revolve around a wizard school.
'This claim was first made in 2004 by solicitors in London acting on behalf of Adrian Jacobs' son who was the representative of his father's estate and who lives in the United States.
'The claim was unable to identify any text in the Harry Potter books which was said to copy Willy the Wizard. This claim is without merit and will be defended vigorously'."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1193283/JK-Rowling-sued-500m-plagiarism-lawsuit-family-late-Willy-The-Wizard-author.html

A previous suit was dismissed:

"In 2002, Rowling was sued by an American writer, Nancy Stouffer, who claimed that Potter had been stolen from Stouffer's The Legend of Rah and the Muggles, which featured a character named Larry Potter. An American court not only ruled against Stouffer, but said she had lied to the court and doctored evidence to support her claims. In 2003, Rowling successfully sued Dmitry Yemets, the author of Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass, a Russian children's book, for lifting major plot elements from her Potter books. Yemets argued that his book was a parody, but the courts ruled for Rowling."

I can't judge about "Willy the Wizard", but it's not at all uncommon for highly successful authors to be accused of plagiarism on all sorts of very frivolous pretexts (couldn't resist the pun.).

khmerhit · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:45 pm Post subject:

i met a kiwi in edinbbro who was working in a jewellery shop in --or maybe an ozzie--anyway she said jkr came in and bought a real expensive bracelet and she was real nixce.

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject:

Naw, I was speaking to the quote by her when they were doing casting calls for the Harry Potter character if she would consider an American playing the part. Her response, and I'm paraphrasing here as it has been years and years was something like" "An American could never play a proper British boy". The fact that she is Scottish was even more infuriating.

Isn't that what actors do? Act? Nationality doesn't play into it or Minnie Driver (British) wouldn't have played in "Grosse Point Blank", Eric Bana (NZ) wouldn't have played a U.S. Delta Operative in "Black Hawk Down" and "House" would have the brillance of Hugh Laurie (again, British). I could go on and on...

One can only suppose that she believes that Superman actually can fly???

She's a jerk!

NCTBA