Why the hate on Teflers?
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It depends on your lifestyle, if you drink and drive at night a lot, that is bound to increase the chances of getting into a serious accident due to all the crazy speeding drivers out. Daytime it's too busy to get too reckless. But of course good to have support from family and friends back home in case you get into something bad. What I am talking about is that I don't need to sit in some fancy restaurant and eat pepper steak to feel good about myself. Seriously, the Rover drivers here don't look happier than my local tuktuk driver, in fact some of them look like dickheads to be honest.
Any Tefler that starts at $1,000 or less is a retard. Unless they really are solely in it for the love of teaching, but I don't buy it. I think they just couldn't haggle for shit. I started at $1,200, mind you I have a tefl cert and B.A (unrelated to English) and no experience, but I know a guy who was in my tefl class that got conned into signing a 3 month contract for $700 a month. Guy was paying $300 a month for rent at a hotel, he literally only had enough money to eat and maybe go out once every two weeks.
My rent is $80 a month, because all I need is a room to sleep and shit in. I don't like T.V, and don't care for most "modern" amenities. Although I'll admit having an a/c would be nice would you bring a girl over. And yeah I've done a lot of things that were fast and loose here. But why the hell would you come to this place just so you could live the same tame and rigid life you lived back in your 1st world police state?
And living on a grand a month isn't difficult but living on $300 a month? Fuck that. You're literally just barely surviving. And the girls in riverside cost at least $30 including the bar fine, can't be getting your socks off with that kind of chump change. And don't even talk about how you're that player whose got that silver tongue, talking em into a 1 shot for free deal, because we all know your beta ass can't haggle at no $300 a month.
My rent is $80 a month, because all I need is a room to sleep and shit in. I don't like T.V, and don't care for most "modern" amenities. Although I'll admit having an a/c would be nice would you bring a girl over. And yeah I've done a lot of things that were fast and loose here. But why the hell would you come to this place just so you could live the same tame and rigid life you lived back in your 1st world police state?
And living on a grand a month isn't difficult but living on $300 a month? Fuck that. You're literally just barely surviving. And the girls in riverside cost at least $30 including the bar fine, can't be getting your socks off with that kind of chump change. And don't even talk about how you're that player whose got that silver tongue, talking em into a 1 shot for free deal, because we all know your beta ass can't haggle at no $300 a month.
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its just a different job from "real teaching" and that can breed disdain maybe rather than hate in small minded people. yes I did say real teaching and I stand by that in a way,I really mean more like, if you can qualify to be a tefler in one month online then don't expect teachers who studied for four years and then had to do a probationary year as well to respect your professional qualification overly highly while they may in time come to respect the work you do.JL wrote:After almost 2 months of teaching experience, I totally believe the hate is real. At the school where I work, there is definitely a certain snobbery towards teflers. Particularly from a professor who looks down his nose at us lesser mortals as if we are something, he scraped off his shoe.
He isn't a native English speaker (Eastern European) and at first I thought it was just because he was foreign that he didn't mix. When I tried small talking to him in the playground, he simply looked at me and walked away! Later another teacher told me that as a professor, he despises teflers because we cheapen his professional status.
So yeah, I think tefler hatred is real. It's alive and well and living in Phnom Penh.
I however just see it as another type of job, removed from other forms of teaching and often carried out professionally and well enough rewarded.
There are many here though who have this disdain for other reasons, as mentioned they are dicks who need to have someone to look down upon. Frankly quite a lot of the guys over here from the west can be dicks in one way or another and if they then have that higher salary this gives them an inflated sense of entitlement.
This is one of the reasons I don't tend to drink too often in some of the more expat style bars as well as not really wanting to spend $3 on a beer of course, It frustrates me to hear people chatting about how you really need to be on 3 to 5 grand a month to get by here, I heard this recently and it's just utter bollocks unless you have children to educate that is. I really don't regard $600 as enough though, while I could survive on this it would be just survival nothing much more. I could manage on 8 or 9 hundred if I really had to but it would not be much fun as I do like to drink, smoke and go to bars of lots of different types, although area 51 sounds a little far to go to me, I'll stick with street 51.
Blott de tama fåglarna har en längtan, de vilda flyger.
I remember Bonez wrote a brilliant piece about his life as a Tefler
Made it sound excellent.
Never be able to find it though.
Made it sound excellent.
Never be able to find it though.
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