Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:10 pm
Trojan,
One thing to remember with overseas schools - you are a commodity. Some years your 'flavor' is in demand, other years it isn't. Nothing to do with the prestige of the school.
There is one thing to consider from an overseas school's viewpoint:
What if your wife is keen on going where the school is, you are keen, but, when you get there you find that your wife's only connection to anything is you. Your staff is tight, but don't know your wife and end up doing stuff with other staff couples who are both teachers (kids or no kids). How does you wife feel then?
Second scenario - you go, same as scenario 1, but your wife realizes after two months of basically doing nothing and not having much to do as the dollar has dropped in value again (don't laugh - with this crisis nobody knows what is going to happen and the US is TREMENDOUSLY in debt. My friends lost 20% of their salary over the past couple of years due to the dollar's decline, though it is better now).
If you wife is unhappy, you will be unhappy. If you are unhappy, your work will suffer. If your work suffers, you end up wanting to leave. If your wife leaves, usually you will leave.
Just to be realistic, this happens. Not saying it will, not saying it won't, in your case. Just that it is one of the things that schools have to take into consideration.
One thing to remember with overseas schools - you are a commodity. Some years your 'flavor' is in demand, other years it isn't. Nothing to do with the prestige of the school.
There is one thing to consider from an overseas school's viewpoint:
What if your wife is keen on going where the school is, you are keen, but, when you get there you find that your wife's only connection to anything is you. Your staff is tight, but don't know your wife and end up doing stuff with other staff couples who are both teachers (kids or no kids). How does you wife feel then?
Second scenario - you go, same as scenario 1, but your wife realizes after two months of basically doing nothing and not having much to do as the dollar has dropped in value again (don't laugh - with this crisis nobody knows what is going to happen and the US is TREMENDOUSLY in debt. My friends lost 20% of their salary over the past couple of years due to the dollar's decline, though it is better now).
If you wife is unhappy, you will be unhappy. If you are unhappy, your work will suffer. If your work suffers, you end up wanting to leave. If your wife leaves, usually you will leave.
Just to be realistic, this happens. Not saying it will, not saying it won't, in your case. Just that it is one of the things that schools have to take into consideration.