50 CVs sent out.
2 acknowledgements.
2 rejections.
1 unconditional offer to do vaguely specified work in a place I didn't apply for.
1 email that they're thinking about thinking about considering me to teach bloody Business English in Seville.
1 organiser of Spanish summer camps who, in typical summer camp fashion, will tell me where and when the summer camps are when they know themselves.
1 employer desperate for someone (anyone) to work in the United Arab Emirates.
1 school saying "We've only got one part-time temp working in the office and she doesn't really know what she's doing so could you please wait a few weeks (and maybe a few more weeks) for us to get ourselves sorted out and not accept work for anyone else in the meantime". Paraphrasing slightly
2 emails from a Korean school saying Seoul's completely full but do I fancy working in a small town?
1 employer really desperate for someone (any-anyone) to teach tots in Turkey.
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1...interview with a Chinese school! Looks like a good one too. At, erm, 5am tomorrow.
Just go with your gut feeling and don't be afraid of opportunity.
ReplyDeleteI would be afraid of some of those sketchy places desperate for anyone. You might be sold into slavery and end up being a sex slave for some rich but shady foreigner!
Not a school in China.
ReplyDeleteThey might block your Internet access!
A sex slave?! Could be WELL worth blogging about, that one!
ReplyDeleteWell, more potential interest value than teaching tots in Turkey, or wherever, eh?