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jdl · Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 632 Location: cyberspace

doner,

Are you requesting career advice?

johnslat · Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 2:35 pm Post subject:

Dear doner,

"deadend job" "it pays the bills"

Is "paying the bills" worth it, doing something you dislike so much? Maybe you think it is, but I'd say you're wasting the most precious commodity you have: time (and, at my age, I believe I have a good perspective on just how precious that commodity really is. The "dead" in "deadend" comes all too soon.)

Isn't there some other way to pay the bills, one that would be personally more satisfying, even fulfilling?

I hope so.

Regards,
John

doner · Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 179

Yes because I do not want to see my kids out on the street.

doner · Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 179

johnslat · Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:20 pm Post subject:

Dear doner,

You keep insisting that it isn't - fine. But you need a career, one that will keep your kids off the street and make you much less bitter.

It's all guesswork on my part, but if you're attitude at home is anything like the one you display on here, I don't see how those kids can be so very happy at present.

Regards,
John

jdl · Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 632 Location: cyberspace

doner,

Are you requesting assistance in finding a career for yourself outside ELT?

One of the interesting asides in ELT is that many instructors are 'multi career' people who have experience in a variety of professions ranging from business to consulting to science to art to journalism to scuba diving to engineering etc. and a variety of related or unrelated trades.

As you are aware advice is is no shortage in these fora..... Some of it even good Wink

doner · Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 179

Multi career? I have not come across many engineers in TEFL. I did work with a Turkish Cypriot born in the UK who did a degree in engineering as a mature student and then went into TEFL when engineering collapsed in the UK in the nineties. I worked with `nasty nick` who was a diver-he did 4 months in saudi and then did a runner at the first holiday. Never met a journo TEFLer apart from a few TEFLers who wrote articles for free for bad english lang papers. Businessmen TEFLers-no but I have met a few who claimed to have walked away from great businesses but I always wondered why they never had any money. No consultants but the Booz Allen Hamilton teachers are described as consultants. Scientist TEFLers again no but I worked with one with a degree in chemistry but he did have a 4 week cert.

doner · Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 179

jdl · Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 632 Location: cyberspace

doner,

You are probably right. Good luck. It will all work out.