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| If you could get a Blue card for teaching the European Country You Choose, would you leave Korea? |
| Yes, I be there dragging a giant Kim Chee Pot. |
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| No, my other half would not have it. |
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| No, Corea is numba 1 even sans Nelly. |
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| Maybe- I go the way of the wallet. |
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The Great Toad
Joined: 12 Jun 2004
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 Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:23 am Post subject: I would soooo Leave Korea if I get can get an EU Blue Card |
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Man I would sooo be there if I could get a public school job in Spain even France- those frogs ride like no others- all those sports drugs- me drug free I will be hard pressed to stay on their tails.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7057575.stm
""""The card would allow suitably qualified people and their families to live and work within the EU. """"
This may make it a bit hard...
"""""To be eligible for the card, new immigrants would need to show a recognized diploma, have at least three years professional experience and the offer of a job which could not be filled by an EU citizen. """"
It seems more geared to tech jobs but still maybe I can score a sweet LEGAL Barcelona Job.
"Students welcome to sk00l I am ur American speaken and writin teacher. Thanks to the intelligence of the EU I am legal to teach you Ingles."
I'd be there in a minute- than again my Korean is poor and I do not have a K-girl and chain.... err I mean K-Lady Bonny wife. |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:35 am Post subject: |
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The European Commission is set to unveil a Blue Card for skilled immigrants, based on the US Green Card.
The card would allow suitably qualified people and their families to live and work within the EU.
The EU says it needs 20 million skilled immigrants over the next 20 years, and is very short of expertise in engineering and computer technology. |
Hehe, I like this. Basically everyone is leaving England because it's rubbish. All their best minds are leaving. Their engineering base has been ripped to pieces over decades by the government. There's nothing left.
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More people left the UK last year than in any year since current records began in 1991, statistics show.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicate that some 385,000 people left the UK for the long term in the year to mid-2006. |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6958220.stm
Why are all these people leaving? It's not that hard to work out. English people complain enough about the rise in immigrants, this scheme is not going to appease them. But as it said Britain can opt out.
I have friend who's a TEFL teacher in Barcelona. Apart from having English as your mother language it really helps to be fluent in Spanish. |
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atomic42
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
Location: Gimhae
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:59 am Post subject: |
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The UK is a miserable place, the Continent isn't.
4,000 PEOPLE A WEEK TRYING TO LEAVE UK
Immigration is rife, but thousands are quitting Britain
Sunday August 5,2007
By Michael Knapp, Home Affairs Editor
BRITAIN is facing a mass exodus of people looking to escape the crime and grime of modern living.
The country�s biggest foreign visa consultancy firm has revealed that applications have soared in the last seven months by 80 per cent to almost 4,000 a week. Ten years ago the figure was just 300 a week.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/15642/4,000-people-a-week-trying-to-leave-UK |
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The Great Toad
Joined: 12 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:06 am Post subject: |
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Mmmm if i was an English Lord or just any sort of Englishman with an EU work permit I would teach in Spain. You guys feel free to let your sisters PM me we can work something out  Just joking ahhh no I guess England has gone downhill since they killed Charles. But the crime can not be as bad as the USA where the LAPD is in a state of War with thugs and every perfect country town has a Meth Head Cooker raiding farms for supplies. |
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Cohiba
Joined: 01 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:06 am Post subject: Skilled |
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I think you people better read the fine print. They are looking for
skilled people. Do you actually consider teaching ESL a skill?
Any moron can get a job straight out of school with a BA in some
totally irrelevant subject.
I don't think the EU will grind to a halt because there is no fresh-faced
anthropology major available to clean up little Manuela's potty accident! |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:16 am Post subject: |
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I love England, actually. I would love to live there. If not for a money issue, I would so move there.
I won't mostly because I could never own a house.
Btw, I have EU citizenship. |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:31 am Post subject: |
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I love England, actually. I would love to live there. If not for a money issue, I would so move there.
I won't mostly because I could never own a house.
Btw, I have EU citizenship. |
That post sounds like you're after a rich benefactor to buy you a house in some kind of marriage of convenience.  |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| The Brits are hands down the most unpleasant people I've had the misfortune of meeting, though a few are okay. To think that I'd want to live with a bunch of them, now THAT would be torture. |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:43 am Post subject: |
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It would have do with the tough limited job market as to why so many are trying leave Britain. In western Europe, the job market is not so good for young adults. It's even worse in limiting ways than America and Canada. People don't so much care about crime and drugs as they do their economic status. That is based on having access to good jobs after gaining a good education.
I call Europe the rich persons playground though I love it and would love to live there, because it's a very pleasant and entertaining place to be. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:48 am Post subject: Re: Skilled |
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| Cohiba wrote: |
I think you people better read the fine print. They are looking for
skilled people. Do you actually consider teaching ESL a skill? |
To teach esl in London you have to be well qualified, well experienced and on top of your game.
First up there are many immigrants who pay to learn english properly
Then there are hordes of language tourists who study english seriously while in the UK.
There are foreign students with rich parents who send them to english study classes.
They all pay top whack, and you'd better be up to snuff. They want results. Interesting fast-moving lessons. A veriety of different nationalities within one class. You have to vary your approach. The students are not slow and they like to speak and interract. I know because I had to teach them.
Its a skill. More so in that circumstance than in the contrastingly dopey korean classroom. |
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The_Eyeball_Kid
Joined: 20 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:02 am Post subject: |
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| The Brits are hands down the most unpleasant people I've had the misfortune of meeting, though a few are okay. To think that I'd want to live with a bunch of them, now THAT would be torture. |
It was nothing personal, Yaya - we just didn't like you very much. |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:02 am Post subject: |
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Why, are you interested?
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
I love England, actually. I would love to live there. If not for a money issue, I would so move there.
I won't mostly because I could never own a house.
Btw, I have EU citizenship. |
That post sounds like you're after a rich benefactor to buy you a house in some kind of marriage of convenience. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:11 am Post subject: |
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I have EU citizenship. I am not running to live there. sure if I was single and 10 years younger and money did mean jack I would do a year teaching in spain or greece.. or not even teach, plenty of jobs to be had which actually make better money than teaching,
I will return to europe to live one day when I am set up finanically. its a wonderful place to live but you really do need money, because its not such a great place if you are only making 1000 euros a month..
but like I said.. I will spend alot of my older life there.. |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:20 am Post subject: |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
Why, are you interested?
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
I love England, actually. I would love to live there. If not for a money issue, I would so move there.
I won't mostly because I could never own a house.
Btw, I have EU citizenship. |
That post sounds like you're after a rich benefactor to buy you a house in some kind of marriage of convenience. |
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Unfortunately no benefit to me. Not too sure if gay marriages are actually that convenient. Actually I tell a lie.
When I lived in Sweden this Russian guy came to work as a dishwasher in Stockholm. The only way he could get a no questions asked visa from Russia was to marry a Finnish man (they have swedish citizenship apparently) He married him, hub bub everything. Got his visa then worked in Sweden for a year before his girlfriend came over from Russia, who he got pregnant so he had to go back to Russia to have the kid but he wasn't allowed to leave until he divorced the Finnish guy. They had to go through the whole interview process (I just don't love him anymore, he wears his socks in bed, he blocks the sink up, he always 'the man' etc) And everyone lived happily ever after. The lengths people go to.
I got EU citizenship and have no cash. I'm about as useful as a Home Shopping Bacon Channel. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:22 am Post subject: Re: Skilled |
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| Julius wrote: |
| Cohiba wrote: |
I think you people better read the fine print. They are looking for
skilled people. Do you actually consider teaching ESL a skill? |
To teach esl in London you have to be well qualified, well experienced and on top of your game.
First up there are many immigrants who pay to learn english properly
Then there are hordes of language tourists who study english seriously while in the UK.
There are foreign students with rich parents who send them to english study classes.
They all pay top whack, and you'd better be up to snuff. They want results. Interesting fast-moving lessons. A veriety of different nationalities within one class. You have to vary your approach. The students are not slow and they like to speak and interract. I know because I had to teach them.
Its a skill. More so in that circumstance than in the contrastingly dopey korean classroom. |
Pay top whack? From what I heard it was only marginally better paid than pub work. |
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