by gavinmac » Thu Aug 15, 2019 4:42 pm
I got a message from back home today. My cousin, um, "Sally" tells me that her brother "Steve" is moving to the Philippines for a year to teach English at a school. She said a few family members wanted to give him money and asked if a Visa gift card or cash would be better.
Steve is 50 years old, he's never taught anything as far as I know, and he has no college degree. He used to be a mortgage broker, he was a grocer, and lately he manages bars in his hometown in the USA. He's also mentally ill and prone to lying.
Is there any way he has lined up a teaching job in the Philippines from the USA? I don't know how this stuff works, but I don't recall hearing of too many Westerners teaching English in the Philippines. Surely there are experienced, skilled Filipinos who will teach English there for very low pay. Why would any school there hire an American with no experience or credentials to do this?
So now I have to decide "Is Steve full of shit?" and "Is it my place to tell my other cousins, without any facts, that I believe Steve is probably full of shit?"
Adding a bit of color to this is my own brother, who says he thinks Steve met a chick on an Asian dating website a year ago and disappeared from town for a week to visit her. Maybe she has set him up with a job? I guess it's possible, but it all seems unlikely.
I got a message from back home today. My cousin, um, "Sally" tells me that her brother "Steve" is moving to the Philippines for a year to teach English at a school. She said a few family members wanted to give him money and asked if a Visa gift card or cash would be better.
Steve is 50 years old, he's never taught anything as far as I know, and he has no college degree. He used to be a mortgage broker, he was a grocer, and lately he manages bars in his hometown in the USA. He's also mentally ill and prone to lying.
Is there any way he has lined up a teaching job in the Philippines from the USA? I don't know how this stuff works, but I don't recall hearing of too many Westerners teaching English in the Philippines. Surely there are experienced, skilled Filipinos who will teach English there for very low pay. Why would any school there hire an American with no experience or credentials to do this?
So now I have to decide "Is Steve full of shit?" and "Is it my place to tell my other cousins, without any facts, that I believe Steve is probably full of shit?"
Adding a bit of color to this is my own brother, who says he thinks Steve met a chick on an Asian dating website a year ago and disappeared from town for a week to visit her. Maybe she has set him up with a job? I guess it's possible, but it all seems unlikely.