Oh yeah, you’re right.
But either way everyone who has entered Australia since Sep 1994 did so in 1 of 3 ways
- With a valid visa
- As an unlawful non-citizen
- As the monarch of Australia
Most countries have reciprocal visa policies with other countries.
If one country doesn’t allow visa-free access for your citizens, then you don’t allow it for their citizens either.
The few examples you provided above are more exceptions rather than the norm.
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and before that
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www.seek.co.nz or www.seek.com.au or www.trademe.co.nz Those are all legit.
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Not true for Australia. Australia requires all foreigners to have a visa to enter. Yet Australians get visa free entry to most countries around the world. US requires most people to use ESTA ( which is not a visa ) or to apply for a visa. Yet US citizens get visa free travel around the world to most countries.
Yup, as I said there are exceptions.
Plenty of them. Many EU countries require people from Asian countries to get a visa where they have visa free access.
I’ll just google
Typical day working here:
Go to Class A like usual. 15 minutes into class the manager calls and says go to Class B. Coteacher in Class A takes this as the time to slowly gossip about shit. Manager comes to tell you hurry as they forgot to tell you go to Class B. You get to Class B and the coteacher yells at you because they’ve known about the schedule change for a week. Why are you late? Blah blah.
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Why don’t you just laugh in their faces and ask for a printed schedule to prevent this in the future?
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Define “yell.”
If a coworker yelled at me, I would a) put my things in my backpack and b) walk out.
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Hmmm . . . I wonder if Taiwan Luthiers can get one of these jobs and live a good life in Australia?
My Magic 8 ball doesn’t think it looks promising:
But let’s see. It’s not the worst idea!
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In most places where I’ve worked, the person doing the yelling would be the one putting their things into their backpack and walking out, accompanied by security.
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Don’t you work from home?
TL has a criminal record. prison time and deportation that he might fail to get any visa to enter Australia on character grounds. If you think those jobs are easy to get then you are wrong.
What are the interviews like for “real” schools? The same as cram schools?
I do now. Got escorted out of too many workplaces by security.
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Define “real”. Ive gotten tons of jobs in “real” schools simply by showing up on the first day with all the wrong paperwork and lots of running around and trips home until everything was in order and I could teach legally. Ive also had interviews were we do they typical “tell me about yourself” and get into a discussion of my teaching style and what I have to bring to the table. My most recent job involved a heck load of questions that they wanted me to answer (typed) ahead of time, which I answered very truthfully, knowing that if they had a problem with any one of my answers, the school wasn’t going to be a good fit for me. I clearly said what they wanted to hear, because we then had a many hours long chat about the school where both me and potential future boss laid everything on the table (regarding the school and how I was expected to teach, along with their communication and problem solving strategies). Following the interview, I wrote my job description and we tossed some titles for my position back and forth. I’m almost a year into the job and all issues can be resolved with a quick “hey I noticed x, lets think of a solution”
TLDR: you want job interviews that allow for both sides to be clear about everything. Job interviews that are one sided or don’t involve asking questions will almost certainly backfire.
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What is a real job then? Not really much of a career progression for foreign teachers in Taiwan is there? Some people seem to change employers quite often. Glad my wife doesn’t teach anymore and just works for me instead. The foreign teacher that teaches English at the elementary school in our village teaches at other villages and is driven to each school everyday. Not sure where he lives my wife has met him I haven’t. He is one of those on government contract.
Even in the international school my lad was at in Taichung some teachers were here on 3 contracts years then moved on. Not sure how many stayed long term.