| The academic year is nearing its end here
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| | teachers. I have next to zero chances of
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| in China. Well, not really nearing the
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| | finding employment there. China is
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| end but almost there, especially for
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| | relatively easier, if hundreds and close
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| teachers who want to look for a new job.
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| | to a thousand applications can be
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| Foreign teachers are typically offered
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| | considered easier. After all, I have
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| one-year contracts and sometimes a
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| | worked here for four years and that is
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| one-term contract. Universities and
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| | far better than Korea, Japan, Taiwan,
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| schools start looking for teachers well
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| | Mexico etc. I haven't worked in these at
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| before the new term/year begins and
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| | all and don't expect to. I might need to
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| teachers need to start applying and
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| | post tens of thousand of applications
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| negotiating with prospective employers.I,
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| | there to get so much as an
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| too, need to start looking and going
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| | acknowledgement. That is wasting global
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| through hundreds of job ads. I'll
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| | resources and putting unnecessary strain
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| probably need to send in hundreds of
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| | on the poor world wide web. Why clog the
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| applications as well before I get a
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| | cyberspace with pleas for employment, I
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| response or find a job.My ancestors made
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| | reason and lay off.My years of business
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| the cardinal 'mistake' of settling down
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| | and teaching experience in China, some
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| in India and not in Europe, US or
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| | knowledge of Chinese and ability to speak
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| Australia and I must pay the price for
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| | a few other languages means nothing to
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| their mistake. Mistake, because most
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| | employers. They don't even want to give
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| employers will reject my application the
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| | me any credit for having published my
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| moment they see the entry for
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| | writing and a book of short-stories.My
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| 'Nationality'. Employers want US
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| | nationality and skin-colour are
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| Australian/UK/Ireland nationals to teach
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| | disqualification enough.I wonder how
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| at their schools. However, if the colour
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| | global our world is. Is it global, really
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| of one's skin is white and eyes blue they
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| | global? Or is it just a ball that rolls
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| might reconsider an application.My
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| | impotently on, spun unwillingly by hands
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| ancestors have given me brown skin,
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| | that seem to hold all the power?I take
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| brown-black eyes and black hair. This
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| | solace in Khayyam, in his wisdom and his
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| compounds their mistake and makes it much
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| | Rubaiyat:'The Ball no question makes of
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| more difficult for me to find a teaching
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| | Ayes and Noes,
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| job in China and elsewhere.I couldn't do
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| | But Here or There as strikes the Player
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| much to change the colour of my skin and
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| | goes;
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| eyes though I did consider investing in a
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| | And He that toss'd you down into the
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| pair of blue-tinted contact lenses. I
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| | Field,
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| have, with great effort, turned my black
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| | He knows about it all - HE knows - HE
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| hair to grey but most employers can see
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| | knows!Rajesh Kanoi (Jack) is a published
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| through that so I earn no brownie points
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| | writer, now living and working in China.
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| for my achievement.S.Korea, Japan,
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| | Many of his short-stories, poems and
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| Vietnam, Mexico, Taiwan and other
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| | articles have been published, including a
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| countries hungry for foreign teachers are
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| | book of short-stories, 'From China With
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| more rigid than China in their choice of
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| | Love' (Lipstick Publishing).
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