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[merlin]

in fact, the best arrangement I've found in over 8 years of this is a guy who just finds classes for me to teach, gets the hell out of the way to let me teach and skims about 20% off the top.

Works great all around and everyone's happy with the arrangement. He gets his and I get mine - all with a minimum of hassles. Who needs a school? What good teachers need are agents, not managers or directors. I can make a curriculum myself - who needs someone with no idea of teaching methods making a "standardized" one-size-fits-all curriculum and cramming it down students' throats?

Thank you, but no.

My favorite employer is one who enables, not one who directos or manages.

[Will.]

I am self-employed, on a consultancy basis.

I always did like the "self lurve" thing...............

[gaijinalways]

When I first entered EFL in '92 - I used to broadcast where I worked, if it was a good place or not, etc. But, unfortunately, with such broadcast came some rather flakey people who named me as their source/reference and brought some big problems with them.

In Asia, not sure about other parts of the world, a reference carries with it an obligation. That obligation is that the person you recommended will not create problems, will be easy to work with and get along with, and will do their job diligently. When they don't - it's not just their problem - it's YOUR problem too.

So . . . nowadays I rarely reveal for whom I work.

Yes, but you would still have to recommend them, which you aren't obligated to do if you don't really know them.

I currently work at 4 universities, but I wouldn't particularly recommend or complain about any of them, they all have similar problems, mostly to do with the administration and lack of resources (access to copying, computers, etc.).