I have decided not to rant anymore about my job - verbally, that is. hehehehe I think everytime I rant about it to other people, nothing really happens and the more that I just get frustratedabout it.It always becomes somthing stressful because my emotions get carried away. So, from now on, I’m going to rant about it here in this blog. I also think that if I put things into writing, the more I can see how things are messed up and the more I can think of the ways on how to solve most of them.

 

I think it all started with the position passed on to me. I really did not like it in the first place. My position requires me to talkt o people, understand their problems, help them solve their porblems and be very patient with whatever their complaints are. The sad fact is I do not like people. I do not like dealing with them, trying to understand them and more, helping them with their problems.

 

Well, I can work out with the people-problem that I have but the thing that I hate about the job is the idea that I let other nationalities get the better of me. The students, for example, think that as a Filipino, I am not competent to teach them. They have this perception of all the Filipino teachers that we have in the school. No matter how you master grammar, no matter how you try to deliver it to them so that the gramma ideas become very helpful in their everyday conversation, no matter how you try to help them, everything is useless. I am just a Filipino and my English is nothing compared to the native speakers of the language. To be fair, these students do not have this shared idea - but it becomes useless because nothing you do could make you somebody in this business.

 

Another thing that I find irritating in this profession is the fact that students think that they already know a lot about things when they challenge the teachers. They forget the fact that by enrolling in a language academy, it already means that they have acknowledged that they still have  a lot of things to learn.However, the think that they are better than the teachers. Yes, I acknowledge that they know what they want that is why they can suggest whatever things they want to have in the class, but some students go beyond the border of suggesting and instead become aggressive in making the teacher follow them by not doing homeworking and activities intended for the class. This shows that they do not trust the teacher and the ways of the teacher in helping them improve their skills.

 

The biggest problem that I have, though, is with the teachers who are native English speakers of the English language. They are all a**es. They think that since they own the language, they are already better than the Filipino teachers. They do not respect the authority in the company and are actually very bossy. It is such a big insult not only for me but to the other Filipinos working here. Yes, there are a lot of Filipinos working abroad and they also get their share of discrimination. But to be discriminated in my own country by incompetent foreign nationals is simply unforgivable. 

 

I can take the pressure of the work. Yes, I can. However, the psychological and rge sociological challenges usually get to my bones.