You know, I've been to college & taken a number of trade courses in my life. While in college the only future I could possibly conceive was making a career of wandering poet, busker of strange & disturbing acoustic noise, writer of questionable manuscripts, & as a joyous malcontent. It was no wonder I'd left school for the bright lights & urine filled NYC. No bohemian-leaning, non-violent anarchists could pass up the opportunity to lavish in the cesspool that the city was...or may still be. Along the way, I've picked up a certification in journalism from a school long out of business, I'd studied long & hard to become a bartender (how I passed the tests I cannot guess, as I don't now, nor had I then, known how to mix even the simplest of drinks) Volkswagen mechanic, a Linux Administrator, a Web site Administrator (the latter three never completed because of ridiculous inconsistencies in the curriculum compared to real-life situations). I've spent a life-time studying various forms of mysticism, story telling, & the hypnotic effects of sound & vision (that's more on story telling & musicianship, & maybe a bit of magic thrown in).
I write this to ask a question I really want answers to, & the great Gazoogle ain't helping. Send me comments, send me mail, psychicly link with my feeble mind, if you dare, & help me out, here.
You see, I want to take anther potentially worthless trade course. I've wanted to do so for a few years, but cost & various other things have continually got in the way. I need to learn the technique of teaching. In this case, I want to get certified to teach English as either a second or foreign language. Granted, I expect this might be more obtainable in Reno due to a lower cost of living than here in Seattle.
So, my quetion is are trade courses really worth it? Certainly, I can learn a thing or two about how to do this as I had learned many, many things in the previous couses, but I need some real, as opposed to marketing, information. Besides, do people actually make a living relying on trade certifications?
Tell me your experiences with these. Please.
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You see, I want to take anther potentially worthless trade course. I've wanted to do so for a few years, but cost & various other things have continually got in the way. I need to learn the technique of teaching. In this case, I want to get certified to teach English as either a second or foreign language. Granted, I expect this might be more obtainable in Reno due to a lower cost of living than here in Seattle.
So, my quetion is are trade courses really worth it? Certainly, I can learn a thing or two about how to do this as I had learned many, many things in the previous couses, but I need some real, as opposed to marketing, information. Besides, do people actually make a living relying on trade certifications?
Tell me your experiences with these. Please.
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New title finally published. A collaboration between William S Burroughs & Jack Kerouac. Read about it here: The young generation: Burroughs and Kerouac - an unpublished collaboration.
Can someone explain this to me. Hasn't it run its course yet? Why the hell is there so much stripper emulation? Don't get me wrong, I've met strippers, despite my never having been in a strip club. Fine people, or fine enough. What I don't get is why so many women want to be like them -- particularly when most of those strippers I've known were only doing it till they could do something else. Take the money & run. Sexy? It's business. Maybe I just don't find it all that sexy. Rather, I find it all contrived. Why should sex be so elaborate? Why so deliberate? Seems rather phony to me.
We've lost so much.
Too good to pass up. These videos from the sixties were considered educational. I was round then, but, apparently, too young to have been exposed to these. I imagine I'd have been rolling on the floor, gleefully pissing off my teachers. Oh, wait. I didn't need these specimins to piss off my teachers. They had lots of others when I was in high school. The 6 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Old School PSA's. Of course, I do remember the Duck and Cover movie.
Watch what you leave out in the yard.
And another related bookmark: Fiction & Classic Reader.
Holy shit. Had I known aspirin was so very bad & that grass was an actual analgesic, I'd be smoking again. Check out this fantastic comparison (& note that aspirin, what we use most for headaches, can actually cause them). Aspirin vs Marijuana.
Finally. Why are the bees disappearing? And here, I'd thought they were bailing on us & returning to their own planet.
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, (i.e., the "business cycle") the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
-Thomas Jefferson
Sweet! Not only do these guys & girls project a massive skull & cross bones onto the Russian Parliament building, they actually climb the gates & run onto the grounds! Get too close to the fence round the US White House, & you'll have Secret Service agents ramming guns up your ass.
And you thought you had a bad day.
Perfect.
Can someone explain this to me. Hasn't it run its course yet? Why the hell is there so much stripper emulation? Don't get me wrong, I've met strippers, despite my never having been in a strip club. Fine people, or fine enough. What I don't get is why so many women want to be like them -- particularly when most of those strippers I've known were only doing it till they could do something else. Take the money & run. Sexy? It's business. Maybe I just don't find it all that sexy. Rather, I find it all contrived. Why should sex be so elaborate? Why so deliberate? Seems rather phony to me.
We've lost so much.Too good to pass up. These videos from the sixties were considered educational. I was round then, but, apparently, too young to have been exposed to these. I imagine I'd have been rolling on the floor, gleefully pissing off my teachers. Oh, wait. I didn't need these specimins to piss off my teachers. They had lots of others when I was in high school. The 6 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Old School PSA's. Of course, I do remember the Duck and Cover movie.
Watch what you leave out in the yard.
Mostly as a bookmark for my own idle times, but the 19th Century British & Irish Authors Archive may serve you well too.
And another related bookmark: Fiction & Classic Reader.
Holy shit. Had I known aspirin was so very bad & that grass was an actual analgesic, I'd be smoking again. Check out this fantastic comparison (& note that aspirin, what we use most for headaches, can actually cause them). Aspirin vs Marijuana.
Finally. Why are the bees disappearing? And here, I'd thought they were bailing on us & returning to their own planet.
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, (i.e., the "business cycle") the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
-Thomas Jefferson
Sweet! Not only do these guys & girls project a massive skull & cross bones onto the Russian Parliament building, they actually climb the gates & run onto the grounds! Get too close to the fence round the US White House, & you'll have Secret Service agents ramming guns up your ass.
And you thought you had a bad day.
Perfect.
You've said numerous times you want to teach English in a foreign country. Pursuing this would probably be your best option. It would seem that if you know the language of the country you are in, you can get a job teaching English.
ReplyDeleteThere might be some courses you could take that would help make this a viable career choice, but I doubt they are required. Most jobs I've had in the IT field have not required any certificates... they generally just ask about your knowledge. I'm sure the certificates help, but I wouldn't put too much stress on attaining one.
Well, to teach English, depending upon the country, one may need nothing but being a native speaker. Of course, even in those countries, making a living teaching English requires either a Bachelor's degree, a TEFL or TESL certificate, or both a degree & a cirtificate. Salaries grow with what you have to offer.
ReplyDeleteBut there is a technique to teaching. Even I am not so arrogant as to believe I have the ability to teach without training.