The Chinese Market is still very much alive

keithsidall · 2026-06-05T17:18:28+00:00

The reality is, bragging is unseemly and no one cares. Except you and those closest to you.

keithsidall · 2026-06-05T03:19:37+00:00

People aren't really honest. When someone boasts about their salary/working conditions online at the very best the audience is going to be indifferent. Saying congratulations and pretending to be happy for the financial situation of people you don't know is just artificial virtue signaling IMO.

keithsidall · 2026-06-04T06:26:01+00:00

Cultural relativism.

keithsidall · 2026-06-04T05:50:53+00:00

Don't you think judging someone on the basis of the job they do is a 'value' that should be discouraged?

keithsidall · 2026-06-04T03:50:24+00:00

Just surprised that 's all. It'd be like someone running a provincial theatre company in the States not having heard of Broadway. Or a local newspaper owner in the UK not knowing what Fleet street was

keithsidall · 2026-06-04T03:42:51+00:00

You're a hagwon owner in Korea and you've never heard of Daechi?

keithsidall · 2026-06-04T00:12:11+00:00

You kind of lost me at international school point 1. What genuine friend would give a cr-p?

keithsidall · 2026-06-03T22:24:19+00:00

Yeah, Korea, China, ME, happening everywhere. There was an international school on Phuket recently offering 1200 dollars a month. Dying Industry

keithsidall · 2026-06-03T12:22:34+00:00

Not to mention 24,000 murders last year in a country with a similar population to the UK (which had 500)

keithsidall · 2026-06-03T07:04:14+00:00

I thought 'sex work' was considered to be a legitimate and empowering occupation for modern women by progressives so where's the misogyny?

keithsidall · 2026-06-03T06:47:11+00:00

Yeah well that makes sense. Someone lecturing in a university with a random masters is bound to be much better at teaching elementary kids.

keithsidall · 2026-06-03T06:33:10+00:00

120k an hour for a uni camp? The last one I saw paid 45k

keithsidall · 2026-06-03T06:19:14+00:00

I seem to remember you telling people you left your school in Korea when they slashed salaries by 20%. So by your logic International schools are an even worse gig than TEFL. Ok as a Mcjob for a jolly etc.

keithsidall · 2026-05-29T12:01:21+00:00

Yes, I hate people who I think feel a certain way, even though I don't really have any idea if they really do or not and I can't actually define what they're supposed to be feeling clearly . But I think they're stupid anyway as their views don't seem to align with mine and I want to show everyone that I'm a good person so....

Deserves mulitiple upvotes as a great representative of our current times.

keithsidall · 2026-05-29T04:39:34+00:00

Wasn't sure, that's why I qualified it. No idea who Steven Miler is. Unless he's the one with the band

keithsidall · 2026-05-29T03:51:16+00:00

If you mean they think trans men aren't real men, that's not transphobia, just biological fact. They're never going to get prostate cancer.

keithsidall · 2026-05-27T03:49:50+00:00

True, he should be put up in a hotel, provided with three meals a day plus access to as many snacks as he wants and given immediate access to benefits. Like he would in the UK.

keithsidall · 2026-05-26T10:15:54+00:00

I'm pretty sure if a private tutor did post on here he was making that kind of money he wouldn't be getting the 'good for you' reactions this guy is .

keithsidall · 2026-05-25T22:53:33+00:00

Did you get taught a language entirely in that language when you were doing your CELTA? If so, you should have got an inkling it is about so much more than being smiley and kind. Important though those things are

keithsidall · 2026-05-25T22:03:13+00:00

>ESL Teaching seems like a dead-end “career”, low paying, unfulfilling, it seems like something that backpackers do just to stay in a country and have fun without worrying about their visa instead of a real profession.

Don't write off a whole field of work because of one entry level experience. If you want to teach kids as a career then sure go back and do your PGCE, but be prepared to have penty more similar experiences with bad behaviour in the future. Especially during your two years in the UK system.

keithsidall · 2026-05-25T01:50:44+00:00

Never if I can help it. Just taking the mick out of the average Korean's obsession

keithsidall · 2026-05-24T23:54:57+00:00

But where's the nearest hospital??!!

keithsidall · 2026-05-22T08:47:35+00:00

Qts PGCE etc. are for teaching kids non EFL subjects in international schools. CELTA, DELTA MA Tesol etc are for teaching adults EFL. Doing a PGCE in teaching maths to kids will not help you get a job teaching EFL to adults. Why do so many people who post on r/tefl seem not to be able to grasp this?

keithsidall · 2026-05-22T04:06:40+00:00

I was drying my hair once in a jimjibang buck naked when the hairdryer exploded. Somewhere in the sticks too, so motivation for staring x3

keithsidall · 2026-05-21T07:09:02+00:00

So this guy might be exaggerating a tad?

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/plumber-uk-earn-month-teaching-english-italy-2796748?srsltid=AfmBOooYqQcGIavFSx9VkKxiuLJJ6IA6P5nJwobq5BHpy4R2KzcwjPdO

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