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by interteach
Sun May 14, 2017 4:48 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Negativity in the workplace
Replies: 85
Views: 138448

Re: Negativity in the workplace

Psyguy's posts make sense when you replace the word "speculation" for "data" in them. Really.
by interteach
Sun May 14, 2017 1:43 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Negativity in the workplace
Replies: 85
Views: 138448

Re: Negativity in the workplace

Yadda yadda yadda data. Blah blah blah data.

Funny how you never actually provide any or point to any.

Your insistence that you are correct is substantiated solely by your insistence.
by interteach
Sun May 14, 2017 1:29 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Negativity in the workplace
Replies: 85
Views: 138448

Re: Negativity in the workplace

So in other words you have no hard data.

Thames Pirate is right. You have overstated (as usual) while hiding behind non-existent data that you refer to as if it's received truth.

It's really said that so many people become convinced that international teaching is the world you erroneously describe. You do, however, let people to see just about the worst of it. Too bad you don't care about the best.
by interteach
Thu May 11, 2017 4:15 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Negativity in the workplace
Replies: 85
Views: 138448

Re: Negativity in the workplace

Rubbish. Please provide the hard data that contradicts the significant number of teachers I know who have found jobs in schools ranging from the hardest to get hired by to the easiest who are at minimum in their late 50's. It's just not true. At all.
by interteach
Wed May 03, 2017 5:04 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Negativity in the workplace
Replies: 85
Views: 138448

Re: Negativity in the workplace

As word salad goes, nice job but I hope you cook better than you write.

As a reasoned response, your being in a corner is showing.
by interteach
Wed May 03, 2017 4:47 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Negativity in the workplace
Replies: 85
Views: 138448

Re: Negativity in the workplace

It's interesting (in a small sort of way) Psyguy, how you hide behind being unable to reason when presented with ideas that disagree with yours. If you cannot see a connection between stereotyping and prejudice, well...

And as for your not caring well, again, it's nothing new.
by interteach
Mon May 01, 2017 3:41 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Negativity in the workplace
Replies: 85
Views: 138448

Re: Negativity in the workplace

Psyguy wrote:

"Prejudice and stereotypes are not identical. Dont all subjects have racial, gender, religious content?"

No one said they were identical. If you cannot make a connection between the two, you should not hold a job that requires at least a high school diploma. If you think that such a statement is a sufficient ducking of your original assertion, then you're more craven than I thought. It's astonishing how often your commentary indicates that you have great difficulty empathizing with others. Based on your content over the years, it's hard not to assume only the worst intentions about your desire to be involved in education.
by interteach
Sun Apr 30, 2017 6:14 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Negativity in the workplace
Replies: 85
Views: 138448

Re: Negativity in the workplace

PsyGuy wrote in a previous post in this thread:

"How do you think a stereotype becomes a stereotype, by generally being accurate."

Please tell me that you don't teach subject matter related to racial, religious, gender, or any kind of prejudice.

Beyond reprehensible.
by interteach
Sat Mar 25, 2017 6:35 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Is this really a career anymore? Economists, can you answer?
Replies: 95
Views: 1193714

Re: Is this really a career anymore? Economists, can you ans

Going back to the original question yes it is still a career but it's hard and always has been.

Back when there was a much smaller number of international schools they were staffed by something of an elite corps of teachers at by and large excellent schools where they taught Western kids whose parents were largely expat upper middle class executives, most of whom couldn't believe their luck. It was hard to get a job, especially the first one. But once you were in the system it wasn't too hard to stay as long as you were a dedicated professional.

Globalization made a foreign or IB high school diploma a commodity along with a college degree from an English-speaking country. International schools exploded in number and the quality of schools, education and compensation ranged from excellent to dire. It also became easier to get jobs with the advent of the internet.

It can be a career, but it tends to work out as one for those who are talented teachers willing to put in the time due to their dedication. There are still schools where it's possible to make enough to have a viable career, as long as you have the financial discipline to save. But the number of positions are still small and they tend to go to strong professionals who also have the luck to be in the right place at the right time. It's still hard.

The days of teaching native English speakers from native English speaking countries overseas are basically gone and they are unlikely to come back. Host country kids going to international schools tend to be much wealthier than way back and that changes the job. But there is room for strong teachers at strong schools, but the supply remains limited and teachers now have a lot more terrible schools where they might end up. Judgment is important as is patience. And it's always been that way. What's changed is the path, which for many means starting at a bad school and seeing if it's possible to move forward and up. It also means a lot of teachers who are less than serious about teaching and more interested in travel. So yes, it's possible, but it's just as difficult as it has been in the past. Only the obstacles have changed.
by interteach
Thu Mar 23, 2017 8:34 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: package in china
Replies: 14
Views: 27536

Re: package in china

You need to find out if that's after tax or pre-tax on the salary. Even if your school pays Chinese income tax, there's still social tax that gets deducted. You pretty much get it back when you leave, but standard income tax rates are high and if the stated salary is gross rather than net, you need to find out what the net will be, and what other deductions are taken.

The housing allowance is very small.

Does the school sell home air purifiers at cost? What do they do to clean up the air in the school? What kind of medical insurance do you get?
by interteach
Wed Feb 22, 2017 4:58 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Search Associates Shrinking?
Replies: 24
Views: 52655

Re: Search Associates Shrinking?

I don't think Search is shrinking but instead the number of mediocre (or worse) international schools is growing. i've also heard that this isn't a good recruiting year as people are staying put. I have only hearsay to back that up. I know that a number of very good school still use Search, but they also use it to hire before the fairs.
by interteach
Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:26 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Credit cards abroad?
Replies: 31
Views: 55005

Re: Credit cards abroad?

So he's from the US but not from the US.

This is Psyxxx in a nutshell. Textbook.
by interteach
Fri Feb 10, 2017 4:20 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Credit cards abroad?
Replies: 31
Views: 55005

Re: Credit cards abroad?

Most US credit cards have far better terms than credit cards in other countries. You may be able to save a fair amount in the long term by keeping a US credit card open.

Plans change. Circumstances get altered. Returning to the US with a dismal credit score may not be what you want even if your bank has given up on you.

But if you just want to be a lowlife thief....
by interteach
Thu Jan 26, 2017 5:08 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: China and pollution...
Replies: 33
Views: 57221

Re: China and pollution...

If you work at one of the top schools with clean air at school and support for air purifiers at home it can be worth it. The days when the air is clean doesn't make it into the news. And there are grocery stores that cater to Westerners.

It's a drag when you have days when the pollution is bad, but where I work in China (one of Those Big Schools) is truly amazing and when the air is good it's a great place to be.

If I was offered a job at a school that didn't take pollution seriously I'd never take the job.
by interteach
Sun Jan 22, 2017 3:43 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Make-Up Days
Replies: 26
Views: 33893

Re: Make-Up Days

Experience is a great resource. Which, in this case, you don't have.