Posted in Employment on 13 May 2008 | No Comments »
The DHL van came to pick up my package of documents for Korea yesterday. The driver turned out to be the same bloke who came in 2006. And I think he encountered the same minor problem with my documents as he did last time. Essentially, I think the issue was caused by me putting a [...]
Posted in Employment on 9 May 2008 | No Comments »
The past few days, I’ve been sent away to my sister’s ex-partner’s place while he and the kids are away on holiday. While there I had various phone calls - including a couple of interviews with two branches of Reading Town. One was with a Korean and was a real interview; the other was with [...]
Posted in Employment, Life on 2 May 2008 | No Comments »
Having received a contract on Wednesday, I posted it on the contract review thread on Dave’s ESL Café. And got some off-putting comments on it. The person commenting concluded, ‘I needed a really good laugh and this was it. Terrible terrible contract. Run! No amount of correction will change that. Move on.’
The thing about the [...]
Posted in Employment on 23 April 2008 | No Comments »
As my appointment with the notary public was at eleven, I had to get up much earlier than normal today. I’d considered getting the ten to nine train to Manchester, but in the event that was just silly. Half-way to the station I realised that, in concentrating on getting there on time and making sure [...]
Posted in Employment on 22 April 2008 | No Comments »
The solicitor’s office in the nearby village got back to me this morning to say that they hadn’t been able to contact by phone the person who signed my letter of no criminal recordness (one Malcolm Hubbard - as opposed to multiple Malcolm Hubbards). Instead they proposed faxing them - and this would boost the [...]
Posted in Employment on 18 April 2008 | No Comments »
On Wednesday I had e-mails from both contacts looking for teaching jobs for me. Over a month ago I’d told them both that my criminal background check would arrive by mid-April. On Wednesday, it hadn’t. And I had the feeling that it wouldn’t be here within the police’s deadline for processing it; in fact, I [...]
Posted in Employment, Life on 28 March 2008 | No Comments »
Life feels like limbo right at the moment. I’m waiting for my criminal record Freedom of Information access thingy to come back and in the meantime, I’m not really doing much of anything. My available funds have dropped to less than £700 now and that’s made me wary of doing stuff that would cost money [...]
Posted in Employment, Life on 13 March 2008 | 4 Comments »
Today I had a letter from Derbyshire Constabulary. It confirmed receipt of my subject access request for information about me held by the police (the new Korean regulations for granting visas mean that prospective English teachers need to have a criminal background check. If I was getting a job in the UK this would be [...]
Posted in Computers, Employment, Life on 27 August 2007 | 4 Comments »
As I begin writing this post it’s twenty-five to seven on Tuesday the twenty-eighth of August 2007. My flight back to Britain (via Amsterdam, once again) is at 1335 hours. I’ve spent the whole night packing, and I’m actually almost finished.
Let’s go back to Friday.
There’s one humorous incident that I’d like to share from my [...]
Posted in Employment, Life, Teaching on 23 August 2007 | No Comments »
I started writing this post on paper a day or two ago, but right now I’m sitting with my laptop in Sandpresso (they sell sandwiches and espressos … and other stuff) waiting for my lunch, so I might as well start again.
The weekend was pretty busy. On Friday night I went for a meal with [...]
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