How’s your ultimate job and/ or life going?
Not got either, you say? Well, maybe you should try a job with is “the most exciting employment opportunity of your life” which is “not hard” and ”pays well”. Apparently you can “forget the commute, over-time …missed lunches… jammed photocopiers and demanding supervisors”. You can, so they say, be “your own boss”, “starting at the top”, “‘playing’ at work” in “a low stress environment” with “supportive colleagues”. You can even, believe it or not, ”Live longer” and get “physical benefits included… in your… package”. What is this job, you ask?
Why, TEFL teacher of course! Or at least according to BS International. Sorry, I mean TEFL International, from whose article every single word in quotation marks above is taken. Astounding. I think I really gave the CEO of TEFL International more than a fair hearing, but I cannot see how any organisation that is involved in hogwash like this can have any other aim but money. I’m only really putting it up for a laugh, though, because who could possibly take such snake oil salesmanship seriously??
Btw, the article also asks “Does this mean you’ll be a teacher for the rest of your life?” Well, hopefully not, given the often documented complete contempt of Bruce Veldhuisen for TEFL lifers, unlike the people who do a TEFL International “qualification” and then go back to proper jobs back home. And why would they do that if the life of an English teacher is all they say here? Maybe they feel it’s unfair to be so lucky in life and therefore go home to suffer?
They also promise to teach you how to teach 60 students in a class. Now, why would they need to do that? Could it be connected to their job placement service, which is dedicated to finding the best positions for you? Does “best” mean “largest classes”, perhaps? Until Bruce’s email stops pinging back my messages, we can only imagine…
Tags: Humour
June 4th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Ah, I wondered where Bruce and his army of flim-flam men had disappeared to. All my e-mails were bouncing back from the usual TEFL International address. So this is his latest attempt to fleece the gullible public, eh? Ooh, dem leopards and dem spots!!