Well for those who know me - i have been posted to a rural town out at bumf@#k nowhere as a teacher. I would like to take this opportunity to say that the majority of people in the bush are firetruckin' hillbillies and all they want to do is talk about piggin or roo shootin or bitches. i have not had an intelligent conversation for quite some time now and i almost got in a fight a week ago cause this bloke reckons i was looking at his girlfriend who was at least 120kgs!? I am confused. What did i do to deserve this? - and i am here for three years! I miss home and for all those QGL people i know - hello and please keep in contact.

Clint...

P.S. - id post a picture if i knew how?

far out
how long have you been there for?

they have the internet out there? or did you do a carrier pigeon relay to someone online?

When you say Pig shootin' I am guessing they are talking about all of their 120kg girlfriends?

could be one of einstein's ex girlfriends ?

I have been here about two months. I am going on a golf holiday at easter and hopefully some other QGL boys will come up and see me and LAN like nothing else. Going here: http://www.fairwaysretreat.com.au/gallery.htm. Yeah man - the best they got is ISDN. - i would say that i know 6/10 things when it comes to pc's and i am fixing problems here - for beer of all things... and yes the pig shooting - how i love talking about that. some woman are fugly but some are drop dead gorgeous - but they are with the roo-shooters - CONCRETE i can lift it but not spell it!

Sounds entertaining. Now that you've taken the first step which is post it on the internet I think you should look at movie/tv series rights and getting a script together.

This has Australian drama (possibly romantic commedy) written all over it.

lmao... guess that's why you are the only male teacher in Australia.

i have always lived with a philosophy, and if something is s*** in life, change it.

It is ok, buddy your comming coastal at Easter we will blow off some steam.

f*** it must be terrible to be earning 45 grand a year, getting 8 weeks of holidays a year and working 8am to 3pm.

11 weeks buddy.

bah its still s*** money, my mum is a teacher she's always struggling, i earn more then her 1 year out of my apprenticeship.

but anyway

my mum, when she finished her degree, became a teacher etc, she got a temp posting to helensvale hs and she's been made perm since, for the last 4 years now, no stint in a backward ass hillbilly whinging farmers town.

she must be a lucky one

nf

pal, i earn more than that, i get 4 weeks at christmas and another 2 i am at school b4 the kids, my other holidays through the year are comprised of some relaxation but mostly preparing or the next term. And for your quoted hours, on a good day i am at school roughly around 7 and there until half 4. do you make your crust by quoting other peoples misinformation? ..!..

This is CLINT from FLC?
If so, Bad luck :P

haha damn.. im 4th year...

whats the go.. do you have to do country service? or can i piss off to europe and teach over there?

spose i'd just end up doing it when i came back

go work at ym dads school in china box.

you should have had a chat to the mrs when you were over before - she's a teacher and has so far managed to avoid country service, in fact she was recently made permanent at kenmore which is traditionally the hardest place to get for teachers <40 years old.

country service is gay. My step dad id 5 years in the middle of nowhere, and he hated every minute of it.

whats the go.. do you have to do country service? or can i piss off to europe and teach over there?

Yeah it's like Drs, you have to do 3 years country at some point in your teaching career. It's best to do it when you're young and have no ties (kids etc) and those who have done it have better placement oppertunities (depending on the band you've been teaching at, smaller the school the easier it is to transfer back out)

Lots of teachers escape it tho', but i have heard of some who haven't done it just being drawn out of a hat when country schools are short on staff.

I don't think I'd ever be a teacher.. unless I just did the degree and worked as a suplly ($40/h :D) I love my the job I'm doing at the moment. 6 hours a day, weekends and holidays off, secure job, no need to do country service.

Yeah it's like Drs, you have to do 3 years country at some point in your teaching career. It's best to do it when you're young and have no ties (kids etc) and those who have done it have better placement oppertunities (depending on the band you've been teaching at, smaller the school the easier it is to transfer back out)

its not mandatory, its just the best and quickest way to uild points. The more points you have the more weight you pull when it comes to getting the transfer you want.

That said, the mrs friend recently got sent to Mackay for a 2 point school while Kenmore is a 1 point school - f*** going all the way up there for 1 mesly point extra per year. That said I think Palm Island and places like that are like 9 point schools :P

my best mate moved to stanthorpe, and is teaching at Stanthorpe high this year. He is loving it.

I don't know what point my own is, we're a band 5, Kenmore is a band 9 :p but we're not out in the middle of no where.

I was told it was mandatory, but I must have received the wrong information! Although I do know of some teachers that have been transferred out due to lack of country numbers.

Mate for $45k a year I'd teach those hillbilly bush pigs 24/7. Stop complaining.

If its anything like Docs, friend of mine is doing his "country service" at Harvey Bay.

i used to work in the transfer scheme as they call it for EQ's central office HR.

country service is eesential to making the whole system work. there is really no way around it but I can say that after 3 years in the middle of nowhere you are basically entitled to be transfered to a school in brisbane if that is where you want. and it would be no father than 50 mins drive from your home.

i reckon the 3 years sacrifice is a good deal. job for life. no redundancy. pay always going up. access to professional development. totally insulated workplace - no global economy making your industry irrelevant. limited work pressure. public service super. totally politically correct bulls*** if you into that.

i won't say teachers get it easy. it has s***ty parts to its job like everything else, but i have been a public servant as a performance monitor of teachers, i have worked in private sector performance monitoring teachers, and the gov jobs are far mpore sheltered. public teachers are allowed to be a lot more mediocre. if you wanna cruise on a nice salary State ed is the place to be.

Anyone else found the beer whisperer's post comical ?

i have been posted to a rural town out at bumf@#k nowhere

i almost got in a fight a week ago cause this bloke reckons i was looking at his girlfriend who was at least 120kgs!? I am confused

Ahaha

It's even funnier when you know him =)

out of curiousity, what do you have to do at uni to become a public high school teacher?

to be a public high school teacher you have to pass the course and graduate from the required course. that's it really.


no really. it is that easy

i was looking at his girlfriend who was at least 120kgs!?

Lookin!??! i wasnt lookin...thats bich so fat i cant see arround her...thats what you should said ;)

apprently the demand for teachers has dropped somewhat. Prolly not as much html coders though... dem poor c***z

its actually gone up, theyre all going to the UK earnign double the money paying less tax and better conditions. crazy if you stay here.

You earn twice the money and pay twice as much to live, you don't come off much better, but you'd get laid more with an aussie accent.

Also a lot of current teachers are reaching retirement age, being baby-boomers.
So they're trying to entice people into teaching and make it easier to get in.

Hence the lack of good teachers these days

precisely, just ask mooby about f***ing expensive it is to live in the UK

please don't ask mooby anything.