Thread: Good start

Sorry all, buggered up first post....try, try again

Hi all, newbie to forum but not to Thailand or to teaching.
Spent two months a year in LOS whilst living for 20 years in Italy.
Brit (COME ON YOU IRONS), BA and CELTA plus 15 years of own school and biz training consultancy. Now want to bugger off due to divorce (same old story) and selling biz (for a big loss, basically bankrupt (OK not Italian but near as damn it..sorry to all Micks but I'm colour blind). I'm 47 but feel 18, want to have some fun before I get old..and remember why I started teaching all those eons ago.
I am a specialist in biz courses and TOEFL and wondered how corporate work is in LOS. Doubt many will give me detailed answers, corp work is well protected in every country...but some ideas. Spoke to mate in Samui who is involved in TEFL course, lots of cancellations due to recent happenings..was surprised I still wanted to come, not too worried...seen it all so many times, seen the tanks and the tossers on all sides, Thais too rich now (OK maybe not in Issan, but better than a decade ago) to bugger things up.
A>ny group therapy sessions around for OPs? Hate getting pissed alone...where can i break the old drinking glands in with the like minded?
nought against younger back-packer brethren but employed enough of them (qualified though...no alternative in eyetie land) to understand I am of a different generation...give me Bowie, Jazz and meaningful dis(inter)course every time.

Well, let me be the first to welcome you. I dunno much about the TEFL business here, but there are certainly a few on this board that do.Best of luck mate.

As with any place else, get in, get your hands dirty and network, network, network. With your quals you should do fine after getting yourself settled and start making some contacts in the LoS.

Welcome and good luck.

Lodo means mud. Kool screen name.

lots of cancellations due to recent happenings

Yeah, we see the trainers are getting hungry.

I bet there's plenty of work in BKK, in a lot of cities in fact. You might even find some extra teaching hours with Italian. Or search out whomever is exporting from Thailand, write biz correspondences and such.

best of luck

Good luck!

Ben venuto or whatever. Welcome to TD.

Where abouts in Italy?

You sound like a nice guy - all the best - with your qualifications and experience you should not have too many problems finding something.

G'day and welcome aboard. Please keep us posted (with pics) on how and where you settle in the LOS.

And good luck with the teaching. With your background you'll have no problems landing a decent job.

What a nice change after all the new weirdos we've had recently.

Are you callin' me a weirdo? You Hispanic, put..put...ah mierda, I can't say it.

Originally Posted by jandajoy

Ben venuto or whatever. Welcome to TD.

Where abouts in Italy?

Bergamo, NE of Milano,
nice area but more expensive than central London.
50% taxes, 20% Nat Ins etc etc, 100%PAYE costs (ie pay employee 1k, costs the co. 2k)
2 bed flat c. $300k
this is why i laugh me socks off when people think I'm rich coz Business English courses cost clients $100 dollars an hour. What's the point when you end up with only $20 and a coffee costs $3.
Being poor in LOS sounds good right now...and as for the 'jump-through-hoop' red tape, christ, the italians invented it!
roll on wheels up

could always open an italian restaurant...

^ Or sell your body to the Russian ladies here.

Hope all your dreams come true here lodo and welcome to our forum.

Originally Posted by Nawty

could always open an italian restaurant...

surely that market is close to saturated in LOS

Originally Posted by panama hat

You sound like a nice guy - all the best - with your qualifications and experience you should not have too many problems finding something.

But will somehow end up TEFL-ing for some bizarre reason.