The Opportunity Cost Of Teaching In Thailand

**buad hai** · 13-04-2008, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by Smeg

If I had never made it to Thailand I would now likely be on $100,000+ a year, have a company car and be meeting and schmoozing with interesting, successful people. I would certainly have my own house and it would have increased in value so much that with the equity in it and my salary I would be well on my way to being a millionaire.

Been there, done that. It ain't all it's cracked up to be.

**Smeg** · 13-04-2008, 09:18 PM

Originally Posted by Torbek

Opportunity cost?

This isn't an economics prac. It's life...

Its reasonable for people to think about what could have been had they not run away to thailand.

**DrAndy** · 13-04-2008, 11:24 PM

Originally Posted by Smeg

Not my story, for those without the sense to realise.

the trouble is, it fits you like a glove, so the mistakes were inevitable

Its reasonable for people to think about what could have been had they not run away to thailand.

I did not get the impression he had run away. Anyway, if I had not caught the No 36 bus the other day, I could have bumped into a famous entrepeneur and could now have a top flight managers job paying $110.000 a year, or even £

**Told Stool** · 14-04-2008, 04:17 AM

Originally Posted by Hootad Binky

I presume he was talking about TESL schools rather than proper ones? There is such a thing as a TESL school with qualified teachers (International House, British Council, etc.) at home and abroad...

International House and British Coucil are Second World wannabe following funk. We're talking scraping the bottom of the dirty underwear here. There are also real schools with First World education plans...like American School of Bangkok, that don't bother with stooping so low to host ridiculous wannabe "teachers" on what is known as the Ajarn Forum.

Anyone see International School of Bangkok host a subforum on Ajarn?

The resounding answer is "F*** no!" They don't want to waste their time with such gibberish and unqualified "teachers" masquerading as mods and Admin.

**Torbek** · 14-04-2008, 04:22 AM

Originally Posted by Smeg

Originally Posted by Torbek

Opportunity cost?

This isn't an economics prac. It's life...

Its reasonable for people to think about what could have been had they not run away to thailand.

Is it?

But as an exercise after the event, it is as pointless as second-guessing any of life's decisions...

Do you advocate second-guessing all life's decisions? Or just second-guessing Thai TEFLing decisions?

Worry about today and the future, if you must. But there's no point worrying about the past.

**dirtydog** · 14-04-2008, 06:05 AM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

haven't even been headhunted yet either

Okay, I have been headhunted

bit more money than some fake teacher will be getting per hour as well

or even a real teacher of which there are so few

**DaveRobin** · 14-04-2008, 07:20 AM

Originally Posted by Milkman

Originally Posted by DaveRobin

Stickman is running away

What do you mean "running away?"

Do you mean, he's returning to New Zealand?

I haven't been reading him nor following him for a while.

Who is going to stay and teacher in LOS forever?

No one.

We'll all leave sometime for other parts unless we are indpenedently and financially secure, or start a business that is steady and has endurance.

No, I mean he's running away.

He was outed last year and this was embarrassing for him. Plus he then had legal and tax problems with regards to his site. I believe he's also involved in a court case invoving defamation. Plus his site isn't that popular anymore - hence little advertising revenue and few bars that will pay for a positive review.

**bongthom** · 14-04-2008, 07:39 AM

can we get back to slagging smeggy please?

**dirtydog** · 14-04-2008, 08:45 AM

Originally Posted by DaveRobin

No, I mean he's running away.

I really don't think teachers should be running sex sites of any kind, there are enough whore monger sites out there, I couldn't imagine bangkokphil doing a review of girls that are 3 holers etc, or even girls that swallow, why stickman has to do this I have no idea, I am sure his wife or ex wife was really impressed as well as his students and fellow teachers.

**kingwilly** · 14-04-2008, 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

I couldn't imagine bangkokphil doing a review of girls that are 3 holers etc,

speakign of which did you see Williams pics that we took during the Sydney songkran wash out?

Originally Posted by dirtydog

I really don't think teachers should be running sex sites of any kind, there are enough whore monger sites out there,

but i guess megahorn can post as many threads as he wants of the same sort of things...

**barbaro** · 14-04-2008, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by DaveRobin

Originally Posted by Milkman

Originally Posted by DaveRobin

Stickman is running away

What do you mean "running away?"

Do you mean, he's returning to New Zealand?

I haven't been reading him nor following him for a while.

Who is going to stay and teacher in LOS forever?

No one.

We'll all leave sometime for other parts unless we are indpenedently and financially secure, or start a business that is steady and has endurance.

No, I mean he's running away.

He was outed last year and this was embarrassing for him. Plus he then had legal and tax problems with regards to his site. I believe he's also involved in a court case invoving defamation. Plus his site isn't that popular anymore - hence little advertising revenue and few bars that will pay for a positive review.

Thanks for the reply DaveRobin,

But I must ask:

Is "running away" meaning he's:

1. shutting down his site?
2. leaving his site up and running but not writing as much?
3. returning the NZ?

His site was very informative in many ways when I started reading in about 2000, or so.

Since then, there have been other blogs, forums, articles, and internet stuff.

When he was outed with the infamous banana thing, yes it was probably embarrassing.

**bongthom** · 14-04-2008, 09:48 PM

stickman left his site and the guy doing it now is some seppo i thought?

**DJ Pat** · 23-04-2008, 03:47 PM

I always thought Stickman was too wedged up an expat to be a teacher, that's the impression he gave off about 4 years ago, which was the last time I browsed his sorry website.

Now he's freely admitting to being a teacher, entertaining bargirls and on top of that, being an unqualified tosser with absolutely nothing to offer any classroom, even an empty one.

**Topper** · 23-04-2008, 06:18 PM

Originally Posted by bongthom

now is some seppo i thought?

Probably an improvement to the site...

**DJ Pat** · 23-04-2008, 09:08 PM

^^Let's check and find out eh....

well if you can be arsed:

Teaching English in Thailand

**Topper** · 23-04-2008, 10:19 PM

DJ Pat...hadn't looked at the site in years...thanks for the link.

**DJ Pat** · 24-04-2008, 08:37 PM

How was the site then?

**Sir Burr** · 24-04-2008, 09:14 PM

I think the OP is from the Readers Submissions part of Stickman's site.

**Topper** · 24-04-2008, 10:13 PM

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

How was the site then?

Not my thing...but to each their own...

**DJ Pat** · 25-04-2008, 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by Sir Burr

I think the OP is from the Readers Submissions part of Stickman's site.

That reader had a hell of a lot of time on thier hands.

**Ricohoc** · 19-05-2008, 06:17 AM

He's apparently a very bitter man.

What the hell did he expect to have with no teaching credentials to begin with??? And then the Thais were actually willing to do what his own country would not do: Hire someone without credentials to teach their children.

Something wrong with that whole picture.

**thehighlander959** · 19-05-2008, 01:30 PM

Why would a Thai school or any other school ever dream of employing unqualified personnel to teach their children?
Why would you employ an unqualified or out of date airline pilot to fly you on your holidays?You would not!!!!!
As for all these sorry assed ajarns or whatever you want to call them, go back to school get a real teaching qualification, maybe a degree, gain some teaching experience and then come back to Thailand and teach.
If you are not qualified to teach English you should not be teaching English in any schools whatsoever. Children deserve better than teachers who want to be in Thailand for the social life. The job of a teacher is to educate, seems to me that the uneducated here are doing the teaching.I think he should just f*ck off back to the UK. Lets see if he gets a teaching job there "w*nker that he is.

**Marmite the Dog** · 20-05-2008, 12:18 AM

Originally Posted by thehighlander959

Why would a Thai school or any other school ever dream of employing unqualified personnel to teach their children?

The standards for TEFL teachers are (in theory) the same across the world.

**kingwilly** · 20-05-2008, 12:31 AM

Originally Posted by thehighlander959

employing unqualified personnel t

erm, i dunnno like, but i thought that to teach TEFL you needed a TEFL or CELTA certificate, so then they would be qualified...

no?

**thehighlander959** · 20-05-2008, 01:12 AM

TEFL, CELTA, are they recognized in the UK as bona fide teaching qualifications. Not so sure about that, my sister teaches mathematics in school a UK Comprehensive School. Now I know she went to University of St.Andrews because I was their at her graduation. Her teacher training credentials are from Teacher Training College in Glagow, she spent one year as a probationery teacher going round different schools in the Lanarkshire area, before she was accepted into a mainstream school as a teacher .I take it this is what happens on TEFL, CELTA?? tell me its true

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