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Zulethe
Joined: 04 Jul 2008
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 Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:14 pm Post subject: Do you ever feel like a loser here? |
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I do.....I left a great job in America to come here where I've come to realize that 99% of the English teachers here are total losers. I think that's an exaggeration but I'll say that a minority come here just for the experience and are truly talented but the vast majority are here because they are rejects from their home land.
I felt the exact same way during my 10 years in the army. The smartest and brightest weren't the officers or senior NCOs but the first termers using the Army as a means to an end.
I've been here 6 months and am starting to hate other foreign deachers.
Case in point....I was at a meeting with all of these so called teachers and listening to them speak to the Governor of the province and it was embarrassing...Most couldn't form a coherent idea to save their lives...others had horrible accents (don't know which country but supposedly it was an Englishee speaking one).
Some kept asking the dumbest questions that could be handled easily at ones school. Others asked incredibly stupid "hypothetical" questions. Others asked questions that had already been answered.
The .1% person gave one good suggestion....after school program integration? Thank you for that...
Bloody hell, I like my job but I truly feel like a flock together...i.e., loser Ville
Seriously mates�seriously |
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justaguy
Joined: 01 Jan 2008
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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Nope.
But keep up the drinking and typing. It makes me laugh. |
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toonchoon
Joined: 06 Feb 2009
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:36 pm Post subject: Re: Do you ever feel like a loser here? |
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| Zulethe wrote: |
| I do.....I left a great job in America to come here where I've come to realize that 99% of the English teachers here are total losers. |
i left a great job too, and realized the same thing you did.
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| but the vast majority are here because they are rejects from their home land. |
again, i totally agree.
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| I was at a meeting with all of these so called teachers ... and it was embarrassing...Most couldn't form a coherent idea to save their lives |
i've been to a few of such meetings. it's embarrassing, i know. here we are representing, only to have the dumbest ones speak up, and sound... well dumb.
ah... yes we agree as you typed that below:
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| Some kept asking the dumbest questions that could be handled easily at ones school. Others asked incredibly stupid "hypothetical" questions. Others asked questions that had already been answered. |
really though, i don't feel like a loser. i have been fortunate to work with really cool people, and been fortunate enough to meet cool peeps to have intelligent conversations with. sounds like you're a bit older, like me, and on a completely different page in comparison to the 23-year old, recently and barely graduated rejects from reject universities that didn't have much choice back home. |
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linky123
Joined: 12 Feb 2009
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I think things have gotten better over the years. When I graduated from college and came over to Korea, I saw many unqualified teachers being hired just because they were white. I was in a school where an African American girl from a top college with linguistics degree treated with less pay and discrimination just because she was black. Meanwhile, a Caucasian guy with a degree from the University of Phoenix was promoted to a head teacher position. He used to be a used car sales man in the States. I being a Korean American was not given a contract but an hourly wage that depended upon the number of students I got.
It seems many institutes are not looking for well qualified person with a proper background rather than a perception without substance. |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:49 pm Post subject: Re: Do you ever feel like a loser here? |
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| Zulethe wrote: |
I do.....I left a great job in America to come here where I've come to realize that 99% of the English teachers here are total losers. I think that's an exaggeration but I'll say that a minority come here just for the experience and are truly talented but the vast majority are here because they are rejects from their home land.
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Bingo! And the truly stupid come on to Dave's to whine and moan about their situations as if they deserve something better than being on welfare back home. |
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aquaponics08
Joined: 22 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:44 pm Post subject: Re: Do you ever feel like a loser here? |
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| madoka wrote: |
| And the truly stupid come on to Dave's to whine and moan about their situations as if they deserve something better than being on welfare back home. |
 Tsssssss (the sound of burning flesh). |
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aquaponics08
Joined: 22 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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aquaponics08
Joined: 22 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| So leave, you whinging crybaby! You'd go back home and cry, too! Talk about a total loser! |
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ChinaBoy
Joined: 17 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I agree that anyone who would leave a great job in their home country to come teach English is a complete loser. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| You're as good as who you play with. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| It sure seems like a lot of those at Dave's these days were scraped off the bottom of the university barrel. |
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Ramen
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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I feel the same about you OP.  |
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sobriquet
Joined: 16 Feb 2007
Location: Nakatomi Plaza
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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You are a loser if you come to teach ESL here.
Do I mind being a loser? Not really.
You are a bigger loser if you can't hold down one of these ESL monkey jobs though. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, you should really hang your head in shame for getting fired for actually teaching instead of playing bingo and hangman. |
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