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JZer
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 9:01 am Post subject: Re: Best job in Taiwan?? |
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While I realize that we're not all looking for exactly the same thing while teaching in Taiwan, I'd hazard a guess that most of us are looking for most or all of the following things:
Weekends free.
Reasonable pay (whatever that means to you).
Not too many hours (20 - 25 per week is fine).
Vacation time (preferably paid).
Class sizes that aren't too big.
A reasonably well developed curriculum.
The ability to actually test the students without having to worry about the effect a fail may have on student enrollment / your job security.
Bosses whose prime concern isn't to get as much quantity of work as humanly possible out of you every day, but is instead to get as much quality work as possible
There are more I'm sure (feel free to add your own) but my question is this: What schools have you worked for / what jobs have you done or have you seen offered that offer the best combination of these qualities?
I've seriously thought about going home to upgrade my teaching qualifications - perhaps a Master's or ESL/linguistics specific credential - but then I think 'What the hell for?' So I can work in a High School with a bunch of poorly behaved, disinterested teens? So I can work for low pay and long hours in a University just to get some paid vacation time? So I can be an overly qualified babysitter for a bunch of whiny, indulged little princes and princesses?
Are there any 'good' jobs in Taiwan?
Or am I just feeling particularly cynical today? |
Maybe you should get a teaching credential and work in a more professional environment.
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JZer
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 9:09 am Post subject: |
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| As you don't seem to understand my original post let me explain as directly as possible and in simple terms that you will comprehend. |
I understood your post. My answer was very simple to understand. Teaching jobs in Taiwan are not good by nature.
It is simple, go teach in another country or work in another sector in Taiwan.
Once again, you can lead yamahuh to water but you can't make him drink! |
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yamahuh
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 2:06 pm Post subject: Re: Best job in Taiwan?? |
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| JZer wrote: |
Maybe you should get a teachering credential and work in a more professional environment. |
I currently teach corporate business classes at one of the world's largest semi-conductor manufacturing plants and at one of the world's largest producers of touch screen technology. Professional enough for you?
Regarding your suggestion to get a teachering credential; if I thought a teachering credential would significantly improve my options then I would consider it, but from what I have read on this forum, the options aren't that much better (even with a teachering credential) especially if you don't particularly want to teacher teens in the public school system or work long hours for relatively low pay in the University system.
Before you mentioned getting a teachering credential I had thought about getting a teaching one - is that different than a teachering one? Which do you think would give me the best options?
| JZer wrote: |
Once again, you can lead yamahuh to water but you can't make him drink! |
Once again - you can lead JZ'er to the keyboard - and from there to Dave's Taiwan forum - but you can't make him proofread or spell.
Go away troll.
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JZer
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 2:14 pm Post subject: Re: Best job in Taiwan?? |
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| yamahuh wrote: |
| JZer wrote: |
Maybe you should get a teachering credential and work in a more professional environment. |
I currently teach corporate business classes at one of the world's largest semi-conductor manufacturing plants and at one of the world's largest producers of touch screen technology. Professional enough for you?
Regarding your suggestion to get a teachering credential; if I thought a teachering credential would significantly improve my options then I would consider it, but from what I have read on this forum, the options aren't that much better (even with a teachering credential) especially if you don't particularly want to teacher teens in the public school system or work long hours for relatively low pay in the University system.
Before you mentioned getting a teachering credential I had thought about getting a teaching one - is that different than a teachering one? Which do you think would give me the best options?
Once again - you can lead JZ'er to the keyboard - and from there to Dave's Taiwan forum - but you can't make him proofread or spell.
Go away troll. |
Of course you will not get a better teaching job in Taiwan but you might get one in another country. |
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JZer
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 2:18 pm Post subject: Re: Best job in Taiwan?? |
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| JZer wrote: |
Maybe you should get a teachering credential and work in a more professional environment. |
I currently teach corporate business classes at one of the world's largest semi-conductor manufacturing plants and at one of the world's largest producers of touch screen technology. Professional enough for you?
Regarding your suggestion to get a teachering credential; if I thought a teachering credential would significantly improve my options then I would consider it, but from what I have read on this forum, the options aren't that much better (even with a teachering credential) especially if you don't particularly want to teacher teens in the public school system or work long hours for relatively low pay in the University system.
Before you mentioned getting a teachering credential I had thought about getting a teaching one - is that different than a teachering one? Which do you think would give me the best options?
Once again - you can lead JZ'er to the keyboard - and from there to Dave's Taiwan forum - but you can't make him proofread or spell.
Go away troll. |
Proofreading is what my assistant does. |
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yamahuh
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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You should find a more professional assistant.
Then again, some of us are able to proofread and spell all by ourselves. |
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JZer
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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| yamahuh wrote: |
You should find a more professional assistant.
Then again, some of us are able to proofread and spell all by ourselves. |
My assistant is really good but I don't ask her to read my online post. This is a recreational activity. No wonder I don't bother to proofread my post. |
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yamahuh
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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I think we're done here. |
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Ikki
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Not quite. 
It might seem a trivial point to many, but not to me: working at a school that has no qualms about having the AC on in a consistent and efficient manner instead of having a penny-pinching petty mentality that consists of a seeming desirability to have FTs sweat like the Dickens. |
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