EF job in Indonesia – avoid or go for it?
Posted: 25 Aug 2011, 18:35
Hi. I have just passed my Trinity TEFL course and am bound for Indonesia to join my wife out there.
I am now looking for work from here in UK. I have made application to English First and they are offering what looks like an excellent deal in Sidoarjo near Surabaya where my wife has family. On paper it looks excellent – just right for us. Good pay, good conditions, medical insurance, etc, etc.
Buuuttttt, I have read a LOT Of bad stuff about EF online especially on this forum. This was after I made application. EF were recommended to me by my course tutors.
So I am unsure. The fact is that I am leaving for Indonesia in the next few weeks with or without EF to be with my wife. She can get work – she EXTREMELY well qualified and experienced – and support me while I find my feet and look for work myself. So I am NOT purely in the hands of EF.
But, a job on arrival in the right location, good salary, 24 contract hours, etc… it’s not bad on paper! I will be speaking to EF tomorrow and asking them searching questions. I have heard online that the DoS ‘s in EF can be horrible but my wife informs me this is unusual in Indonesian culture. So I do not know what to believe.
Is EF absolutely beyond the pale? Are there ways I can avoid abuse? Is there just internet chatter or are EF/English Town really the pits? If it was awful could I quit or would I be trapped into a contract of legal chains?
I asked on another forum and got zero response. So anyone out there?
Many thanks in advance.
I am now looking for work from here in UK. I have made application to English First and they are offering what looks like an excellent deal in Sidoarjo near Surabaya where my wife has family. On paper it looks excellent – just right for us. Good pay, good conditions, medical insurance, etc, etc.
Buuuttttt, I have read a LOT Of bad stuff about EF online especially on this forum. This was after I made application. EF were recommended to me by my course tutors.
So I am unsure. The fact is that I am leaving for Indonesia in the next few weeks with or without EF to be with my wife. She can get work – she EXTREMELY well qualified and experienced – and support me while I find my feet and look for work myself. So I am NOT purely in the hands of EF.
But, a job on arrival in the right location, good salary, 24 contract hours, etc… it’s not bad on paper! I will be speaking to EF tomorrow and asking them searching questions. I have heard online that the DoS ‘s in EF can be horrible but my wife informs me this is unusual in Indonesian culture. So I do not know what to believe.
Is EF absolutely beyond the pale? Are there ways I can avoid abuse? Is there just internet chatter or are EF/English Town really the pits? If it was awful could I quit or would I be trapped into a contract of legal chains?
I asked on another forum and got zero response. So anyone out there?
Many thanks in advance.