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The ESL scene is completely fucked up here. They hire both native and non-native speakers, with degree and/or teaching qualifications, or none whatsoever - in fact, many schools are quite happy to hire someone who simply fits the description of being white and able to string two sentences together as that means they can get away with paying lower wages... So you basically have a bunch of completely unqualified backpackers with zero skills and no teaching experience posing as English teachers under a long-term contract in order to finance their booze-and-drugs-fueled trips and then fuck off after a few months, leaving the kids at school without a teacher in the middle of the school year, and then is replaced with another equally unqualified backpacker who has no intentions to commit to teaching either and just treats the job as "easy money" before fucking off to their two week yoga and meditation retreat or whatever, and still think they are god's gift to the locals. /rant over.

Get well soon Chris and all that jazz but I'm disappointed by the lack of visuals and pictures of this injury. Basically, pics or GTFO

Well it was a demolition job(all inside work as the building itself was listed), so it'll be finished in a month and I had another site lined up. It paid well so I took it even though it's not the type of work I usually do. I said once upon a time that I would never work for agencies but I have done so now for a few years. It enables me to stay local, not have to travel and also if you get sick of somewhere, you can just jump on another job. They also pay well if you get in with the right ones. I have to go back at 3 tomorrow. Hopefully I'm in and out as I can't stand those places. P.S: Codeine and weed is such a great mix, no wonder why @Teso dos Bichos loves that combination. The downside is it being my right hand, I will now have to use my left to wipe my arse now. Where is your bidet at @SirBalon?

So you won't recommend me drinking vodka with it then? Funnily enough, I already had some codeine as I got some off a lad I know a while ago You know what, the pain at the time wasn't as bad as you may think, it was more the vibrating sensation it gave, it was a strange feeling. Seeing the damage after it when pulling off my glove was worse as it knocked me sick. The nurses were great and I couldn't have asked for more by the way. We don't give them enough credit at times. I will miss being on that job to be honest as it was a good laugh with some top lads. We had a crew of us at dinner time in town and the laughs made the day go quicker, although I know most of them anyway as they live locally so it's not like I won't see the cunts again. The worst is I won't be able to go fishing for a while either.

And their halo reminds me of Ferrari World.

Just look how narrow the car is, too

If everyone had a "desk job" (you're such an American) then there'd be no desks to work on

Depends what training you do mate, CELTA for example you'll do a lot of practice lessons and you can also do more extensive training courses. I did nothing like that, except for 10-15 minutes in front of my TEFL group where everyone had to teach something as practice. I started teaching in March 2017 which was a teaching internship in Seville which helped ease me into it nicely, got to see how everything works etc and I was only given one to one lessons or small classes of adults. One of the classes I taught in this internship for example was optional for the students, it came free with the classes they payed for and it was mainly conversation based. I was very nervous the first class I taught (as I hadn't done any teaching practice previously like on the CELTA for example) but like anything you get into the swing of things after a while. In most cases mate, unless you're learning at school, language classes are taught in the target language from the very beginning. If you want to learn Italian for example and you start having Italian classes, in most cases, the classes will all be in Italian from the very beginning. It's to get students accustomed to the language early on. This isn't always the case, for example it may depend on where the teacher is from and what languages they know but in the majority of cases language lessons are conducted in the language you're learning. You'll teach a variety of levels and everything works in the European framework of language, A1 to C2, with A1-A2 being beginners, B1-B2 more intermediate, C1-C2 a high level. In London over the summer for example, I sometimes taught an A1 class of around 15 Chinese students, they had a very low level of English but do I know Mandarin? No. It's not a problem. You just have to slow down you're speaking and a lot can be done with body language and through visual learning as well. You also have a lot of books designed for the different levels. Knowing Spanish for example in my case helps especially with the younger kids but it isn't essential, many come here with no knowledge of Spanish and many go around the world teaching with little or no knowledge of the language of the country in which they're teaching. And hours vary, 20-30 is about the average of a full time contract here in Spain but it depends on where and what type of teaching you're doing. You also need a lot of time to prepare lessons especially early on, lesson prep is the big downside of teaching but you get quicker and better at it as time goes by. Having a degree is also one of the requirements employers look for but I'm not sure how essential this is.

She's got a tight waist. Also the twitter page of an airport released a first glimpse of the new McLaren, and they had to take it down soon afterwards. The orange looks awesome already though.

I completed a CELTA (4 week course, costs about a grand) and then taught in Vietnam for over a year. If you complete a CELTA you will get a job with better pay and conditions and actually feel like a semi competent teaching (there is still so much to learn in 4 weeks, it’s a very intense course). Of course you can get jobs without any qualifications, to be frank, I wouldn’t bother with the weekend courses. They aren’t worth the paper they are written on, hence why they cost £100. In my experience, which is all from SE Asia if you are applying for a job that accepts a weekend course as a qualification, then they will also accept you with no TEFL qualifications. They will be accepting you on the basis that you are a native speaker and probably white. A white person looks a lot better to the parents etc. We had a very good teacher at my school who was English born, her dad was Singaporean and parents used to complain about her... I strongly considered the weekend courses, obviously the cost being the biggest issue as I’m sure it is with everyone. If you can afford it and have the time the CELTA is certainly the way forward. It depends on your confidence and personality, but it’s not as easy as you might think standing in front of a class for two hours and keeping them occupied or entertained. You can’t possibly be prepared for that over a weekend course. I would argue a 4 week course doesn’t even prepare you adequately. Not only will you get better pay with a CELTA but you also will have the correct VISA and not have to do ‘border runs’ and all that kind of shit if you go to Asia. The cost of the course would pay itself back after about a years teaching i’d guess. I think it’s slightly harder to get a job online in Asia with no qualifications, but if you’re on the ground you could just walk around schools for a day and get a job. Vietnam is by far best pay in SE Asia. Thailand is shit, Cambodia seems to be a developing ESL country but nudge would know better. There didn’t seem to be that many reputable jobs there when I briefly looked online. Japan and Taiwan you can earn good money, South Korea is very good money. All of Europe seems to be pretty poor money from what I’ve seen, South America likewise. Or if you want to sell you soul for a year go to Saudi Arabia and you can earn silly money. I knew a bloke that worked there for 2 years. Said he saved 60k but he hated every single second of the two years there. He said when he told them he was leaving they offered to double his salary, but he couldn’t stay there another day. He said he got iPhones and shit given to him as present on teachers day lol. I’ve rambled on

Guess the term teacher can be applied quite broadly. Most people in Japan who complete TEFL or CELTA are assistant language teachers at schools. You can go into the after school system too, though. Where and who do you teach?

So he’s been good in 2015 and 2017 then

@nudge I've been now and after hours of waiting, one finger is pretty much snapped in half while the other isn't too bad. It's strapped up, I have a sling on and they have put me on codiene and anti-biotics, the latter due to a wound caused from the impact. @Cicero has a point to be honest. It's a mug's game and all you are really doing is building someone else's empire. All the health and safety risks make it not worth the money(even for plumbers on a grand a week) and this is why im planning on going into site management in the near future.

I've just snapped two fingers. I was using a pick axe to rip up floor boards and must have hit steel, the shock went right through my hand and literally snapped two fingers, they are bent as fuck. Problem is, what do I do now for money? I will be out of work for atleast a month and I work through agencies, which means no sick pay, as far as I know. Also if I am eligible for a claim, that will take too long to come through. I'm supposed to have gone straight to the infirmary, but fuck that, I need a nice spliff first(if I can even roll it), luckily its the 2 middle ones, so I can just about type.