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[paulmanser]

Not that I am going to I just want to know where I stand.

I know it may differ for certain countries but take China/Poland/South Korea for example.

[expatben]

Ummm well... it really depends on the contract. Every contract will have different clauses. I mean the contract I signed said if I quit then I have to pay for the schools new teacher until the course ends. In China it was that they could fine me $2000US for leaving-which I did and they diddn't.
Basically it usually envolves you paying them money.

[Sheikh Inal Ovar]

A job in a different school ...

[paulmanser]

A job in a different school ..............

haha

[thrifty]

Some of these TEFL outfits still get away with conning newbies into thinking that their pieces of paper are real contracts.

What is the punishment, do a runner and nobody can catch you. Of course your new outfit is probably going to be no better but after a few years you learn that and either put up with a less bad outfit or get out of TEFL and get a real job.

[paulmanser]

get out of TEFL and get a real job.



oooooooo, I feel a sparky convo coming up.

[mlomker]

[thrifty]

...amongst those for whom it is a field:

backpackers
nutters
those who cannot get jobs in their countries with their irrelevant degrees
drunks
drifters
those married to foreigners
the unqualified
the unemployable elsewhere
etc.

[paulmanser]

I think that a BA degree and a TEFL cert should/normally is enough to start work.

They can't ask for more than that.

I certainly will not be taking a masters degree that's for sure. Only a TEFL Diploma at most.

I mean say 600 quid a month, yet you have a student loan ect.

How does this; you have a 17 000 quid student loan debt fresh from university. You pay nothing back until you earn at LEAST 15 000 a year.

After 25 years, whether you pay zero or all of it abck it gets cleared none the less. If you die it gets cleared also.


What if I work abroad as a TEFL teacher for 25 years? Do I still get pinned?

And no I won't be clearing it before I leave, I would be old and grey by then.

LOL.

[paulmanser]

I keep seeing this famous sentence on this forum, prob from TROLLS.

Should I get a job or TEFL abroad?

lol.

[thrifty]

TEFL is just too easy to get into and then too difficult to get out of if you stay in it more than say, ten years.

Julian Edge a TEFL academic (sic) who used to work at Aston University put it something like this:

TEFL sucks you in when you are young and have no dependants and then spits you out when you are older and have dependants.

[paulmanser]

What 's your story thrifty?

[thrifty]

11 years and want to go home but cannot afford to

[paulmanser]

Why?

Fear of not finding a job, setting yourself up with accommodation when back in your country, been abroad too long.

Thousands of questions regarding that.

[thrifty]

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