Comments on nebulous age: How do they look at themselves in the mirror?

Even having a MA abroad is not all that much of a ...

2008-05-02T23:15:00.000-04:00

Even having a MA abroad is not all that much of a plus. Most of the people I know do not have a MA in TESOL. Alternatively, I am thinking about coming back to the states to teach Chinese.

Like the things I'm seeing in library school, I th...

2007-11-05T05:22:00.000-05:00

Like the things I'm seeing in library school, I think there is something insular in those communities that cause them to be their own worst enemies. I can't really put my finger on it, but it's kind of like complaining about this thing or that thing, but then continuing the very behavior that is causing those problems. Perhaps that's true in all fields, but seems particularly noticeable to me in those areas.

That is precisely the reason why I have no interes...

2007-10-29T10:39:00.000-04:00

That is precisely the reason why I have no interest in trying to find a teaching job anymore. You can get a full-time job if you're willing to move abroad or work in the public school (non-adult) setting, but otherwise, you're stuck fighting it out for the very few college level jobs that open up only when someone dies, or you have to be married to someone who can put you on their benefits plan, because you'll never them. When I was looking for my current job, I saw that the same university looking for ESL people in their English for International Students office. PhD preferred... 20 hours a week. Talk about a waste of a degree.

(In my own defense, I didn't get an MA-TESOL with the intention of teaching anyway, but it turned out to be such a terminal degree oriented program that it really wasn't worth it anyway.)