Moody young employees.
I´m a patient woman, I have to be because I teach English and have done so to many nationalities for almost as many years. It´s not difficult for me, I love my job, and I think I have the patient gene if such a thing exists. However I¨m becoming increasingly less patient with twenty something wannabe travelling teachers under my wing with very little experience of either teaching or life, and who burst into tears at the slightest thing, or moan and complain about how little they earn in Spain compared to the UK and how their working hours are not 9 to 5.Tis true, we are never going to be rich working as English teachers abroad, and our hours of work are not fixed, particularly teaching adults. I gave up an extremely well paid job in the UK to travel and teach, and I had to adapt to the Spanish hours, but there are so many other benefits. Who would not want to sit outside a bar on a terrace drinking red wine and eating Spanish tapas at 11.00 pm on a balmy evening? Who would not want to go to the many beaches here at the weekend and relax with friends? These things cost very little here and make my life the joy it is.
I did invite the latest young moody employee and her unemployed boyfriend to lunch at my house tomorrow after her weepy bout in work yesterday so I´m not altogether insensitive.
Comments (7)
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Very nice blog, it shows that there are different options in life it doesn't have to be all the same, whatever feels good for one doesn't have to be right for the other.
Very nice to see that you enjoy it, great.
Kind Regards
Jarno
With experience and age comes appreciation, patience and a realistic perceptive on life in general.
I remember when I started my first job at age 18....looking back now I think to myself "boy was I clueless" if I thought something was "unfair" I would quite and look for something "better." I soon learned that every job has its ups and downs.
Great blog
Now my daughter studies in a very prestigious American university with full scholarship which is a success of those teachers too! My son is successful his study as well.
Aside from the central theme of your blog, let me just state, good teachers with a passion for there profession and there students are never really undervalued...
Your post reminds me of some of the great teachers who shaped my thinking during my formative years, Frank Taylor, my primary school teacher, probibly the central man in my education and a worthy roll model for any yougster, Ken Bonham, my english teacher in secondary school, a radical thinker who's approach to teaching in the 70s was a revelation, and who's results with his students was evedent that "new thinking" in teaching was indeed capable of getting "old style" results, and the late Harold Minns, an "old school" maths teacher, who's policy of "never leaving a kid behind", raised me from a matamatical dunce to virtual "A streamer" was nothing short of miraculous...
These teachers will always hold a special place in my heart...
Im sure there will be students who will appreciate your efforts in your chosen field, as there have been teachers who infuenced me...
In closing, keep up the good work and never underestimate the value of this most worthy profession...
All the best...Blank...