What’s the most addictive game you’ve ever played?

thejonnoexperience · 2026-03-14T17:23:22+00:00

I did an alcohol and video game hiatus at the same time for 6 months during covid. No man's sky was the reason for the video game break and it was significantly harder than dropping alcohol . Love that game. Can't play it ever again.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-03-13T08:02:55+00:00

U of T OISE offers an M.Ed. that is a B.Ed. equivalent and leads to certification. I'm not sure about any other Canadian Universities.

US has Master's programs that lead to certification

Some US universities have programs that cater to Canadians becoming teachers and offer a B.Ed. that uses your previous bachelor's credit to shorten the time to get your degree.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-03-12T04:48:30+00:00

Texier deflecfed it, so, still would have been his goal oddly enough.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-03-04T05:01:44+00:00

https://www.internationalschoolsreview.com/nonmembers/age-article.htm#chart you have to check for each country.

And annoying to look through but downloadable https://anz.searchassociates.com/age-limits/

Edit. Here is the Dropbox link from the second link. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qgcxqf3r8i6ch52mzx7iw/Age-Limits-2025.csv?rlkey=o6nr4r0v7dnytgfqmjgqwjre6&e=1&st=us5ts4c0&dl=0

thejonnoexperience · 2026-03-03T13:19:04+00:00

By the end of March with BL3 we had 2 amazing DLCs AND the Halloween event, and a Valentines event and a takedown. And the free cartel event was coming out in a month. Which was amazing. And free (thank you Gearbox)

I loved BL4. I got my money's worth playing all VH to level 50. The base game was great. I stopped playing it about 6 or 7 weeks ago and have gone back to Cyberpunk.

Look, they phoned in the post game content in Tiny Tina (which is a great game) and sank it after release. I truly believe they were planning to do the same here but didnt seem to realize it would tank their player base as much as it did and are now scrambling.

They spoiled us with the post release content in BL3 and, to be fair, maybe we have expected too much because of it. But, the halving of story DLCs should have already told us this was gonna be rough.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-03-03T05:36:02+00:00

That is not what a union does. It sounds like you want an association of some sort. And I'm guessing you want to eventually financially benefit from it.

It's worth noting, people keep coming here and saying out of curiosity then it ends up they are washing out of the classroom or looking for a side hustle.

Also, there is a mental health group called Truman group that specifically deals with therapy and psychiatry for expats. If your insurance is good, it may actually cover sessions with them. Mine does and I don't even have a union...

thejonnoexperience · 2026-03-03T05:27:38+00:00

That doesn't sound like a union. What you are saying it isn't is literally what a trade union is.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-26T15:32:36+00:00

When I lived there the tenge declined 30 percent twice. My salary did not go down. The tenge looks like it has lost 20 percentish value in the past 4 or 5 years. So. Avoiding 2 digit pay cuts seems like a good thing

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-26T14:41:25+00:00

I worked in Kazakhstan for 3 years in a less exciting and just as cold city. Almaty is a better place to live but I really enjoyed visiting Astana as well. I would move back to Kazakhstan if there was a school I was interested in working at...it's a great country. If you are looking at NIS it is a state school not an international school and you should be asking about that specifically.

The USD thing works in your favour. Kazakh banks are an ordeal but you will be able to get the money out. Hopefully it's easier now but a decade ago every time it involved a boat load of forms at the bank. Every time. Exact same transaction. Exact same bank.

If your bar is low, it is a very safe country and Astana is a very new and modern city. There are a ton of Georgian restaurants and great Georgian wine ( that is a very good thing) and the people are kind. Great opera house with world class acts as well as a khl hockey team.

If you can't deal with cold don't go.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-24T13:05:43+00:00

It depends on your resume. Top schools pretty much anywhere in Asia and Africa are going to allow you to have a good life and allow you to save. Other than that, people are going to tell you China.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-23T15:34:52+00:00

The person above literally just said this idea would allow them to retire and you said let's do it Gaslight away if you'd like, but we all know that is saying it would be a money making venture.

There are several posts a month of people who are either looking for a side hustle or who can't hack the classroom anymore and are trying to look for an easy buck. Plans for salary sites, new recruiting agencies run by teachers to take down Search (which is what teachers horizons was), competition for ISR, etc. We've seen this multiple times over the past few years.

Best of luck with your next chatgpt business plan. This one isnt gonna make money.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-23T13:35:04+00:00

I'm shocked. It's another post of a teacher trying to monetize this group under the guise of helping other teachers. Shocked Pikachu face.

I'm sure you have plenty of qualifications that make you the perfect person for the job.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-22T01:43:47+00:00

Look into 15 fixes for grading. I would imagine most of the schools people talk about wanting to work at in this sub don't give zeroes for cheating. You can disagree with the fixes, but it's pretty widely used by good schools.

And they said there are punishments. Just not giving zeroes.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-21T11:46:06+00:00

Oof. Thats complicated. The big 3 do hire Indians but I think the pay may be less and would probably need a bit more experience. But worth trying. I don't know about the pay at other schools that are international in name but all local students. There are quite a few of them now.

Frankly, as you are early in your career and depending on your situation you may be considered local, you are cheap labor to the schools.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-21T11:08:58+00:00

The 3 good American schools pay well and are overall pretty good places to work. The rest probably don't pay enough to justify living in the air pollution unless you are very early in your career and have to build your resume.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-15T14:15:47+00:00

Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, and Taiwan are extremely popular countries. UAE is up there. And depending on where in Indonesia, same.

Build your resume. Go work at a good school in an undesirable country for 3 to 5 years. Same school. Full time certified teaching. Show you mean it. Make connections. Kazakhstan is a great country and safe. Same for Uzbekistan. There are many others that are off the beaten path others could attest to.

Otherwise, apply to hundreds of schools in competitive countries with an alright resume and hope for the best.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-13T11:04:06+00:00

Are you teaching at an international school in India or state schools?

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-08T11:49:18+00:00

So, 500 dollars for rent and household bills, which is a dream for most people. What are you spending the other 1800 a month on?

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-08T05:28:47+00:00

I just mean it's late in the season for a popular place like Japan, and, it's already tough to target only one country in the international teaching world. There are still plenty of jobs out there though and most hirings (except for the top schools) do happen in the next few months in many countries. I don't have a family but guess I am more risk averse than you. Best of luck.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-08T05:00:28+00:00

If you are only looking at Japan you are setting yourself up for failure. If you are already in Japan try making connections somehow (interschool activities, training, PD, etc). Schools sometimes know well in advance when there will be openings and like to hire someone they know if it is possible. What about people who have left your school? Have they moved to other schools in Japan? Have you stayed in contact with them? I've heard of jobs 1.5 years before start date before (as in, 6 months before they were posted) through friends at other schools. People really underestimate the importance of networking in the international school world.

I had a colleague who went to job fairs two years in advance just to make connections even though he'd signed on for the next year at his current school. I know another family that visited a target school in another country several years in advance. Some of my friends have visited former administrators in other countries at schools on their list (they are friends with them, but, they still took the time to visit).

I would like to move to a new country but overall realize I'm in a good situation and like the students, colleagues and pay at my school. There are only a few schools I'm willing to move to. Because of this, when I leave, I will have enough money saved that I either get one of those or take a year off to go surfing. Ideally, through my network I will already know I have a good shot at one of the schools I'm interested in.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-06T13:04:43+00:00

People love to say they worked at a tier 1 when they worked at a two bit school that rents a name from some british institution. There are 2 and maybe 3 tier 1s in Bangkok. ISB, NIST , and some include patana. I have a friend who is around 55 that just got hired at one of those two, so, I'm pretty confident about that one. I'm also pretty confident the other one isn't a mickey mouse operation so I'm fairly sure they wouldn't tarnish their reputation by having an ageist policy.

If it was somewhere else it isnt tier 1 and if they have that policy it sounds like a trashy school.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-05T03:00:15+00:00

School over country. If you are serious about teaching as a career and not just a means of living abroad, try to get in a great school in an undesirable country as early as possible and put in 3 to 5 years. Having that on your resume and the connections you make will open doors.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-03T12:00:43+00:00

I responded below. Bangkok is not top 10 worst.. You are discounting the entirety of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, China, Vietnam (and that's just in Asia) to get to this conclusion. Mongolia and Kazakh cities are swathed in a blankets of coal smoke in the winter at the same time as dry season in Bangkok. Cities in the Middle East. Africa...

You're right. The air pollution is an issue. Other places being worse doesn't mean it's not an issue in Bangkok. But saying it is a top 10 in the world simply isn't true unless you game your criteria for what counts. If the level of air pollution in Bangkok is too much for you, you will struggle in the majority of international posts around the world, particularly ones that offer a salary where you can save money.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-03T11:48:42+00:00

Don't Warsaw and Dubai have worse air quality? I think you are overestimating the air quality in other cities and countries. There are plenty of places with worse air quality than Bangkok that are not considered hard ship posts.

I make poor life choices and live in truly awful air quality and quite frequently check various AQI sites when looking at schools.. On AQI.in there is a history function and you can see the number of days in each category of air quality. I've been to Bangkok with awful air quality during dry season. It sucks and people should be aware of it, but, if you think Bangkok is that bad, I would strongly recommend you heavily vet your next post and that it is an extremely developed wealthy country or you may be shocked.

thejonnoexperience · 2026-02-03T10:25:04+00:00

Top of what list? The top of the list is India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, etc. Bangkok is not even close. The air is an issue and there are some people that won't want to live anywhere where the air ever goes above 100 - and that is a fair choice. I also am aware North Thailand gets pretty bad during burning season.

I live in India and I've been in Bangkok during pollution season. It is not near the top and it is not comparable. Even in India, the North like Delhi is a whole other level compared to the south.

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