Teaching english in Europe with no degree but TEFL certificate?

Following up to Mxsmanic :

If you just rely on teaching, you are just plain useless.

I'll be sure to tell all the teachers I know how useless their lives
have been.

You can point to yourself as an example of how to do it right.
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Tim C.

Following up to Mxsmanic :

I was talking about teachers in general, not just ESL/EFL teachers.
There are many teachers in my family, and they have never earned much
money at all.

So it's a genetic trait?
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Tim C.

Following up to Mxsmanic :

I consider myself well paid.

If you are European, that probably isn't saying very much. Europeans
think that if they can save up for a color TV in less than ten years,
they're doing well.

It'S quicker than you can do it.
--
Tim C.

Following up to Martin :

At least he has a mattress and a cooker now.

He's got a cooker? When did that happen?
--
Tim C.

Following up to (David Horne, _the_
chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy)
:

you're sounding like a bit of a ****?

.... a /bit/ ???
--
Tim C.

Following up to Padraig Breathnach :

Mxsmanic wrote:

Padraig Breathnach writes:

Twenty hours teaching a week is essentially a full-time job, as you
have to allow time for preparation of classes and materials, for
correcting students' work, and for bits an pieces of extra involvement
with students.

Yes. Unfortunately, you are typically paid only for the time actually
spent in front of students, so you work 40-50 hours a week, and you
are paid for 20 hours.

I'd think 40-50 hours a week to be a high estimate. My guess would be
about 35.

Mixi needs 50 hours because he's incompetent.
--
Tim C.

Following up to Mxsmanic :

Martin writes:

Occupied working?

Sometimes, but often it is dead time between classes.

Hi there Jimminy Cricket!

--
Tim C.

DDT Filled Mormons writes:

You can translate 1000 words in a couple of hours.

That depends enormously on the words.

A couple of hours would only be about €25 per hour, which is not good
money in Paris.

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Tim C. writes:

So it's a genetic trait?

Not in this case. Merely a coincidence.

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Martin writes:

Time to do some translating.

I'd need a computer and reference materials for that.

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