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veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

You mean that they don't have a Kindle version? Cool

VS

killthebuddha · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 3:58 am Post subject:

Yes. I mean no. They do not have this in Kindle. Amazon has a Kindle tag so that you can "voice" your desire to the publisher, but that seems to be as far as it goes. I don't suppose you have a copy? And a camera? Wink

--ktb

PierogiMonster · Joined: 17 Jun 2010 Posts: 148

So, after having the phone interview last week with Leonard, M. from the States was later to call me. We set up two different dates and times for phone calls. On both occasions, with little or no notice, s/he later emailed to apologise that s/he couldn't make it after all.

S/he then didn't call for the THIRD arranged appointment and I haven't even (a day later) had the courtesy of an apology for this one.

I'm not such a brave/foolhardy PierogiMonster and have, personally, no intention of jumping off any ledges, metaphorically or otherwise. However, my curiosity at least being picqued by this ever-growing thread here, I thought I'd at least take the call. But no longer.

In short, stuff the lot of 'em!

(I know: sentences slightly convoluted. I think I'm enjoying my last few weeks of liquid freedom).

killthebuddha · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 5:14 pm Post subject:

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

MecMS · Joined: 06 Aug 2010 Posts: 8

kbp4g5: Where did you find a better option? I spoke with American Higher Ed and was told I'd get an offer via e-mail within 24 hours. I put in 2 years at an IH school in Europe, have taught 18 months of EFL in the U.S., and have a Spanish K-12 teaching certificate in my home state. I am eager to teach somewhere new this fall- I was hoping for the Middle East but am now widening my scope to Asia- but I don't want to settle for something lower-paying than I "deserve" or something that is not a good situation. To kbp4g5 and all others with experience/info/insight, please feel free to send a PM (or just reply) helping me out. If there is a place that is reputable, pays on time/well, has good conditions (not "too many" hours, a nice setup), I would be grateful to hear about it.

Thanks in advance.

killthebuddha · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:14 pm Post subject:

cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

ktb,
Thanks for offering up the link to the classics...will come in handy during those quiet evenings in KSA.

killthebuddha · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 8:55 pm Post subject:

Grendal · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:52 pm Post subject:

Finally got my second call from AH...(what ever)

I made some headway. They want me in Al-Hasa. Yup 6 hours contact per day. Hotel room for a place to rest your whitebord markers. And last but not least salary negotiations.

If they want me they'll have to cough-up.

Apparently they are now willing to provide housing rather than let you look for one and get ambushed by some guy wearing 5 kilos of plastique.

Grendal

killthebuddha · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:27 am Post subject:

Hotel room? Shared housing?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Shared Housing ? I hear that is part of the deal with military contracts in Iraq, but they pay US$150,000 a year. (=$3,000 a week all found) For that kind of money I might accept sharing Living Quarters with another EFLer. Not for less.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

A disgruntled fellow oldrimer in this game asked me to post this

TO WHOM IT MAY, POSSIBLY, CONCERN

AHEd turned me down when I asked - like Oliver Twist in the workhouse - for
a modest 13k SR / mo. - no deal THERE!

DISCLOSURE
I used to work for the GOVTEVT college in Hofuf 1993-95
[a fact which was in my CV]

1 ... Salary THEN was 9+k plus a month ... the offered salary NOW for TVTC
is far far less in purchasing power terms

2 ... Dr M (MOD edit), the then Dean of the GOVTEVT College in Hofuf , insisted NOBODY teach more than 4 classes a day except on very rare occasions - the deal on offer now is 6 classroom hours a day, 5 days a week, teaching tekkie college dullards.

3 ... WE THEN HAD
Immense apartments UNSHARED [except as a VERY temporary arrangement]

4 ... long hols with TOTALLY FREE spousal air tickets on Saudia everywhere that SAUDI then flew [a good menu actually] - in practice 1 long break in the summer and 1 short break to, for example, Sri Lanka for 8 days

So here 17 years later and the deal on offer is ACTUALLY FAR WORSE IN EVERY WAY than it was in 1993!

The only time I've wanted to slap my daughter in recent years was when she said she was thinking of doing an EFL qualification [CELTA or DELTA or whatever...]

I'd prefer she got a diploma in crack house management, pit bull breeding or money laundering!

PastorYoon · Joined: 29 Jul 2010 Posts: 19

Not all of us can make $3,000 per week. They're offering 1/4 of that at American Higher Ed.

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 2:38 am Post subject:

Not ANY of us can make $3000 a week...

NCTBA