Teaching English Abroad

[Richard Hakluyt]

If I lived in Korea I would have to get a bumper sticker - "A dog is for life, not just for breakfast!" 

[MadImmortalMan]

Been watching the show Pasta on NFLX. I have one question.

Is "Unni" some kind of equivalent to "stupid bitch", or does it apply to any woman in a generic sense? I figured out about episode three that this was not actually a name, but a colloquialism.

[jimmy olsen]

I used to live just above the G in Goyang.

It must be hell on traffic.

Psstt... There's not actually a giant letter G blocking the highway. :whisper:

[MadImmortalMan]

Any of you teacher types not exclusively single dudes? I might try to talk my mom into going for a couple years. Who knows, maybe she'll consider having an adventure before she retires.

[Monoriu]

Any of you teacher types not exclusively single dudes? I might try to talk my mom into going for a couple years. Who knows, maybe she'll consider having an adventure before she retires.

When I was a kid, I had both male and female native English teachers.  They were all exclusively very young though.  They looked like they were in their 20s. 

[jimmy olsen]

They're taking older folks these days if they're well qualified.

[MadImmortalMan]

Well she's 60ish and has been teaching elementary for more years than most of us have been alive. Master's degree.

I'm guessing age is the barrier, not qualifications. I doubt she'd want to keep doing it for more than a couple years. Your contracts seem to be sort of short-term in any case though.

[jimmy olsen]

Typically yearly unless she gets a job at an international school.

It's possible she'll get hired, but the odds are against her I think. The people that old that I've seen here got here in their early 50s.

[Tonitrus]

I'd like to think this is a viable career path post-military, but by that time....I am sure they'd think a 40's, single male applicant is likely just an old pervert.

[alfred russel]

I'd like to think this is a viable career path post-military, but by that time....I am sure they'd think a 40's, single male applicant is likely just an old pervert.

You could teach "english" to rebel groups in Myanmar.

"Today we learn the words governing fire discipline and marksmanship. Repeat after me: when targeting Burmese women and children that are running away, don't lead them as much as with the men."

[garbon]

I'd like to think this is a viable career path post-military, but by that time....I am sure they'd think a 40's, single male applicant is likely just an old pervert.

Well I mean it does seem like a sort of odd thing for a 40 something to want to do as a "career path".

[Tonitrus]

Well, it'd really be a "something to do for fun/adventure when retired" kinda career path.

[garbon]

Teach children? Nope.

[Tonitrus]

I'd like to think of the teaching as more of a cover to experience the grandeur of Japan and maybe go after appropriately-aged Japanese MILFs. 

[Josquius]

At my crappy job in Tokyo were a few older people, including a woman who had to be near retirement age.
ALT work is the best stuff and it generally does have an age restriction of 35 or so. Big preference for young people.
Eikaiwa work is subhuman grunt work not suitable for anyone with a inch of self-respect. But its open to anyone who speaks English and has a pulse.
Neither are career options.
Though if someone is a proper professional teacher then getting a real teaching job at an international school is an option.