budget. I'm so shocked it's now a mirage. They have changed. Madam speaker, I stand here in full support of the well-balanced budget. I'll cut one of the performer present, the late President Wanawasa. He said once, tolerance is bad. But little knowledge is dangerous. Therefore, even when you're commenting on the figures, when you have little knowledge to those page number fifty or forty-four, you will end up misleading the house. The budget that we are currently debating is in balance. We, the people of Muande, Mr. Speaker, are very excited. A rural consistency for that matter. Muande consistency in the education sector, if you go to schools in Muande, you will find one teacher or two teachers. P.F. has been in power for ten years, including the schools where the P.F. are coming from. They are facing the same challenge. Here today we have a budget that wants to employ thirty thousand teachers. And you are opposing. Who are you opposing? Not only are you opposing this budget in the house, you are opposing those teachers that do not have jobs. You are also opposing our children, who are looking forward to benefiting from those thirty thousand teachers. You are also opposing that girl child in Muande. That lacks an opportunity to go to school because of lack of teachers. The teacher to pupup proportion as Mr. Speaker in my constituents is one to eighty. How do those children learn is difficult to learn. When you come to the health sector, it's a sorry sight. If you go to Muande today, you will find how overwhelmed our health workers are. You will find your children also that you've trained not having jobs.  No. Today, every well-meaning Zambian should come on this floor and support. You know, in that moment on the 29th of October, I think the members on the left forgot that they were the opposition and we came in unit and supported it. Even as we left, they were cheering because this government is going to construct hundred and twenty schools. Some of those that are opposing on the left do not even have a secondary school in their constituents. They came on this floor and said we do not have government constructed schools. Here is an opportunity for you to have those government constructed and you want to oppose decentralization. Every well-meaning Zambian should support this cause because the reason why some are opposing is because our resources were centrally managed, which means that there was a lot of corruption because that money was in one basket. But today that money is going to be taken to the constituents. So that means it reduces also the risk of corruption. It will not happen. For those that are saying that they don't have capacity, for the people of Mwanji, we are actually overcapacitated. We are ready to give you L5UTA to give you that take-on cost system so that you can have, you can manage the 25.7 million. Today, as we speak, a person that passed in Mwanji needed to come to apply for a bursary here. That was very difficult and therefore denied children that deserved because the bursary was centrally managed. Today those bursaries are going to work development committees. So are the worships. Who should oppose that? This government and this budget means well for every well-meaning Zambian. Free education. Free education. I remember honoured members coming to this house and saying the people, the UPNU promised free education and here we will come to deliver. Including those that have children that they don't support. They will be supported in this budget. Free education. So we as a people, that girl child should benefit from free education. And all of us should be able to support that. Today if you went to Mwanji, you will be shocked. We don't even have any road whatsoever. The Kazungula Secheke Road has been signed. It has been a song. P.L. felt to do that but that road in ten years. Today we are receiving good news. That's an economic road. That all of us will benefit from. Every well-meaning Zambian will benefit from that road. That's why as a people of Mwanji, Mr. Speaker, sir, we are in support of this budget. This budget speaks to us. That agriculture, that farm in Mwanji is being given an opportunity today through this budget and ICME to also add value. We are looking forward by next year to seeing the products that are being done from Mwanji being supplied. This is all contained in here. So as we are opposing this, we are not opposing the members on the right. We are opposing the people of Zambia because this is exactly what they are looking forward to. And Mr. Speaker sir, I am an accountant. This budget has balanced team. No one should come to this house and tell the people that this budget does not balance. It balances. Which balance do you want? It has balanced. If you want, I can challenge the members on the left. Let them go back to the budget that they presented to this house last year. Let them go and extract the same figures and come back and report to this house. That is, we do not want ignorance or exposing little knowledge because you end up leading the people of Zambia. With that said, the people of Mwanji are in support of this budget. Thank you Mr. Speaker sir.


Let's get over to our man, Mr. Tim Ord, and tomorrow, folks, okay, our man, Mr. Tim Ord, is going to be doing these workshops for us. The first one is going to be on the S&P. This is going to start at 4 in the afternoon, go to 6. It's going to be two hours, the first hour and a half. He's going to be teaching all these different indicators, and the next half hour is going to be questions and answers. So come on over to our website. You can sign up right now, the archive, the live workshop is $295. It will be on your page for as long as you want to go over it, and this is something that you will want to go over, folks, because the bottom line is that these are very unique – what would I – I'm losing it, man. I love it. They're very, very unique indicators that he uses, and yes, they're in the marketplace, but the bottom line, they're not used as – I mean, Mr. Tim Ord uses them. Tim Ord, what's going on? Well, thanks for having me on again. Absolutely. Actually, just to let you know, we're up over so far, we're not even quite halfway through the year yet, but we're up over – well, as of yesterday's close, that was up 10.27 percent, 10 point, so lower 10 percent so far this year. So, if that record continues, I'd like to hit 20, we'll see, but anyhow, turn one. And that's pretty – that's literally climbing the wall of the worry, isn't it? Yeah, it is, and a lot of people kind of been fighting this rally, and there's really no need to, and actually, there is a good indicator to kind of figure out if the markets are kind of climbing that wall of worry, I guess. And the market doesn't have a wall of worry, and there is no fear in the market. That's usually when things can turn ugly in a hurry, but the VIX kind of keeps you in the trend of the market. Usually, when VIX is above 17, you can have a – kind of a wish-you-work-you market or trading market like we had over the last – since last May, the market went up, went down, went up, went down. Okay. And finally now, we're below 17 on the VIX. Yes, I have your chart up, Tim. Pardon? I also have your chart up. Okay, sure. Anyhow, chart number one, if you look at the bottom of the page there, the reason I put the monthly's up, is you can go back further in time, and this chart goes back to 2016 or end of 15 anyhow. I tried to point out, when the trend is below 17, you get a trending market. If you notice in 2016 and 2017, in general, that trend from the monthly timeframe stayed below 17, and the market virtually went straight up for two years. Yes. I mean, there's very little correction going on. And I identified that as in a kind of pink area at the bottom there. I see it now. Yeah, the VIX right now, well, this is a couple of hours ago, but it's 14, it's around 14 right now, and we're starting to get into that minus or a 17 and below area, and we stay in there. There's a good chance we can probably trend again, because the market goes through stages, it goes through a trading range, builds a cause for the next move, the next cause for the next move is a trending market. And we had a trading range over a year, basically from last May to this May, the market really didn't do anything, but it goes sideways. And now we should enter into a trending mode, and identify that trending mode is a consistent reading below 17 on the VIX. So long as below 17 chances are the market's going to just head higher. Not every day is going to be an update, but in general, the market's going to work higher, and the VIX will start going up before the top actually happens, and we can discuss that on the next chart if you want. Okay, and you know what I just did, Tim, too, I put the VIX chart up, and you can see the dramatic break. I mean, the last three weeks, we just went from 2081 to 1389, which is pretty amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So the reason that VIX is below 17 or even trending down, now, I think today we hit a two and a half year low in the VIX. Okay. So this market's probably just going to keep marching higher back up to the old highs at a minimum, but you know, flip to the next chart. I have it. And the bottom window is the SPX VIX ratio. The way reason I do that ratio is to put the VIX in you, anyhow, if you just put the VIX, it'll be just inverse of this chart you see below, but if you put the SPX VIX ratio with it, then it inverts it up. So it makes it easier to read, you can see where the diversions happen. Yes. And if you look in 2018, you know, the VIX went right down really hard right before the top, if you can kind of see it there. Yeah. And then in 2020, that's kind of a pink area I pointed out there. I see those two pink areas, yes. Yeah. Anyhow, if you notice that the SPs are making higher highs and the VIX ratio made lower highs, same thing happened in the 2021 going into January 2022, the market made higher highs and that VIX ratio made lower highs. So VIX goes up before the market tops out. And right now we've got VIX going straight up along with the market. So that's a bullish reverse. That's kind of the VIX leaves the S&Ps. So as long as the VIX is going down and the SPs are going up, everything's fine. If the VIX is going up and the S&P is going up, then that's when trouble can happen. It can happen like a day or two, but if it starts showing a divergence over like a week time frame, then the market's heading for trouble. So this should identify wherever this next top comes in, which my opinion could be substantially higher, is when both the VIX and the SPX is going up. And the most likely place that could happen is probably back at the January 2022 highs up around that 470 area. I don't know if that could be a double top or not. I don't know. We may pass right through it. It's too soon to say what's going to happen there, but that'd be the minimum upside target. So but again, the SPs go up and the VIX goes up. If that happens on a weekly time frame, then you're probably looking at an any minute term top, at least a top that you want to think about shorting. And folks, if you want to understand these great ratios, the different tools that Tim uses after all these years, because I'm sure one of these days, Tim, I want to talk to you on the air for about a half hour, because I know how long and how many charts you have to look at in order to get to this conclusion, which is really cool, man. And folks, the bottom line is that you're going to get Tim's experience of the last 40 to 50 years. And he's only 25. We wish to. I know, man. Come over to our website, folks, this tomorrow afternoon, 4 to 6. If you can't make it live, folks, there's going to be archives. You can check it out. Tim, have a great one safe one. I'll look for the workshop tomorrow. All right, thank you. Thank you. The Gold Report.


Are you a native English speaker? Do you speak English fluently? Would you like to travel overseas? You can teach and live abroad with a TEFL TESOL certificate. TEFL and TESOL are basically the same thing, and both the certificates allow you to teach English all over the world to people that want to learn English. You can take an in-class course at one of our exciting locations worldwide, or you can complete a course online from wherever in the world you happen to be. ITTT has been in business since 1997 and graduates more than 8,000 students each year. Thousands of people like you are teaching and living abroad thanks to a TEFL TESOL certificate. What are you waiting for? Add a TEFL and TESOL certificate to your resume or CV. You could be teaching and living abroad in just a few weeks from now. Welcome to another live session this week. My name is Linda and I'm here for ITTT. I hope everybody's doing fine. 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So please let me know where you're watching from today. I am in South Korea. It is 10 30 a.m. Friday morning. And today is actually a public holiday in Korea Children's Day. So happy Children's Day if you're celebrating or maybe you're not celebrating. Anyway, sending you good vibes from Korea today. What else is there to say? Oh, also let me share that with you real quick. We have a 30% discount code. So if you're not yet Teflor T cell certified, if you're thinking about getting certified, thinking about moving abroad to teach English or also starting to teach English online, a Tefl certificate is the first step in doing so. So today we have 30% off for you guys. So that is off of any Tefl course from I T T T. So this could be the 120 hour course. Our most popular option or also up to the 550 hour diploma course. So anything that you're interested in, you can get 20% off by scanning this QR code that you see right here. Or we also have a link. 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So yeah, but still, where are you watching from today? Let me know. And we already have a couple of people here. We have Roosta caught preview. I hope I'm saying that right. Hi. Where are you watching from? Welcome. Welcome. And then we also have, oh, I can't read Arabic. I'm very sorry. Hello. I miss you. I miss your lives. Oh, thank you. Thanks so much for joining again. And then we have Jack D. Pirat. I hope I'm saying that correctly. Hello, ma'am. Hi. How are you doing? Thank you so much for joining. Don't forget to let me know where you guys are watching from. What country city and what time is it there? How are you doing today? Let me know in the comments. Let me know. I'm just going to do a quick intro about myself. If you're watching this for the first time and you're like, who is this girl? I'm going to tell you right now. So here, just a quick introduction about me. My name is Linda. I'm a travel writer, content creator and also language teacher. I teach English and I also teach German online in class, personal classes. So all of that good stuff. And I've been living in Asia pretty much since 2012. And I have my own website at LyndaGhostEast.com and also on Instagram. I'm very active. And if you want to chat and hang out over there, send me a DM. You can do that if there's a question that you don't want to ask in front of everybody today. You can just send me one over on Instagram at LyndaGhostEast. So if you're interested in also moving to Asia, specifically teaching English in China or Korea, go to LyndaGhostEast.com and you'll find a lot of information over there. Or if you're just interested in traveling over there, also welcome, welcome. I'm originally from Germany slash USA. So my mom is German, my dad is American, and I'm based in South Korea. And this is actually my eighth year in South Korea. So very exciting. I've been here for a long time, taught English, still teaching English and German. So very exciting stuff. That's why I'm also here for ITTT as a Tefal and TESOL professional. And ITTT, if you're totally new to it and you have no idea what it means, it stands for International Tefal and TESOL Training. And you can find us at TefalCourse.net. And we are a leading Tefal and TESOL course provider worldwide. ITTT has been around since the 1990s and we've graduated over 150,000 people, maybe even more by now, especially this year because after COVID, now everybody's traveling again and we all go abroad again. So this year we should have another record number of graduates. But yeah, and we help people, you know, move abroad to teach English or in their own home country or start a English teaching career online. Everything is possible with our certificates. We offer a wide variety of different certificates. So if there's one that you're interested in in particular, I can show you today. I can talk about it. But other than that, really what we're going to do today is just a Q&A and you guys can ask me your questions. Anything you're interested in about Tefal, TESOL, teaching abroad, teaching online, whatever you're curious about.  I always say that. So please just ask away. I also have some slides and some common questions that people send in. So we can also talk about those. But I really would like just you guys kind of sending in your questions and then we can take it from there. So feel free to ask away in the comments, leave your questions. Also, just let me know where you're watching from today. Still haven't heard anybody. I said hi, but not where you guys are. So let me know where you're watching from. Don't be shy. Let me know. Country, city, whatever you want, what the weather is like today in South Korea. It's actually rainy. It's not raining right now, but it is gray overcast. It was raining the whole night. So it's not too great yesterday. It was beautiful. It was warm and sunny, but today not so much, which sucks because it's a public holiday today and the weather is bad. But anyway, all right. Well, maybe we could start off just very, very basic and explore the difference between Tefl and T-Sol. If you guys are watching and you're totally new to this, you might, you might be confused and you might be thinking, should I take a Tefl course or a T-Sol course? What's the difference? Are they both the same and accepted everywhere, et cetera, et cetera? So let's talk about that for a second. Let's just start with the basics really right here. So Tefl T-Sol, if you're new to this, you're going to come across these terms, right? And so Tefl stands for teaching English as a foreign language and T-Sol stands for teaching English to speakers of other languages. And so they're initially the same thing. Okay. They're the same thing. Whether you take a Tefl course or a T-Sol course, the content of the course, the units and everything is exactly the same. So what is the difference? The difference really is just where these acronyms are used. Where people say Tefl and where they say T-Sol. So what do I mean by that? For example, if you look here, Tefl is most commonly used within the UK and Europe. So if you're from Europe, if you're from the UK, you refer to this as Tefl. And you might be more familiar with the term Tefl. Whereas if you're from Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, North America, you're more used to hearing T-Sol. So it really depends on you what you want to do, which term you prefer. And at ITTT, what's great with your Tefl certificate, you can actually choose if your certificate, if it should say on the certificate Tefl or T-Sol. So it's up to you. You can choose whichever term you prefer, but the certificate is the same. The course is the same. And your opportunities are also the same. It's exactly the same. Just the name is different. It's like tomato, tomato, basically. So whatever you prefer, that's what you use. But they are the same thing. Okay. All right. Here are some questions coming in. Thank you so much. Let me take that. So let's go back to this screen. And I'm going to turn this question off and then show Sarah's question here. So Sarah says, I'm a non-native ESL teacher from Pakistan. I've been trying to get a job in the Gulf region and other countries for some time now. But despite my masters in ELT, I face discrimination. What do you suggest? Okay. Wow. So you have a master's in ELT and you're trying to get a job in the Gulf region, but you're facing discrimination. So I guess you're not getting hired because you are a non-native English speaker. Is that what, maybe why you're getting rejected? So really the Gulf region, the Gulf, the Arab countries in that, the Middle Eastern countries in that region, they have pretty much some of the highest requirements for teaching English abroad. That's pretty much the hardest region to get into because they also have the highest salaries, the best benefits. Most of the time, most of these countries also offer tax-free salaries. So really, really great. You can make a lot of money in this area, but they also have very strict requirements. And one of the requirements, most often they even require a master's degree, which you have, which is really great. So you're all good with that. But then a lot of times, depending on which country you're applying to, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, these places, at the moment, they do prefer native English speakers a lot because they can, they can pick and choose because it is such a popular destination, unfortunately. So that's just, that's how it is. How long have you been trying to apply there? I don't think you said that yet. So I would just stick with it, stick with it and apply to as many positions as you can in this region, give it another couple of months, another, I don't know, 20, 30, 40, 50 applications. And then if really nothing happens, I would say, okay, one year. So that's, yeah, that's a long time. Apply, again, apply to as many as you can. And if then still nothing, I would maybe go to a different region, pick Asia, maybe an Asian country. That would be my suggestion starting there. A lot of people do that. Actually, they start in Asia, in an Asian country. And then after a year, two or three years, they then go over to the Middle East after they've gained experience, because that's also very important for teaching English in the Middle East to have experience. Another thing, yes, you have a master's in ELT. Do you also have a TEFL or a TESOL certificate? Because that's also usually required, even though you have a master's degree in ELT, having a TEFL or a TESOL just on top of that is really great, or also a specialized TEFL certificate. So what do I mean by specialized TEFL certificate? I do have a slide here, so let me show you. Yeah, so different TEFL course options. Here, I think, no, not yet here. So what you can do on top of that is getting a specialized TEFL certificate. So a teaching that those are shorter TEFL courses. They're like 50-hour, 60-hour courses. And then you get a TEFL, specifically for teaching business English, specifically here for young learners, or specifically for teaching English online. So in your case, maybe you want to get a business English or a young learner's certificate, and you can add that onto your portfolio that can also really make a difference. Okay, so Sarah has three years of teaching experience in middle school. Which country? Pakistan? Yeah, like I said, the Middle Eastern region is very, very tough to get into. So it might take just more time. Apply to as many positions as you can, and you can also check on our website, TEFLcourse.net. So let me just show you. I'm just going to share my screen so you can see that. Yeah, so this is our website, right? I hope you can see it. Okay, I'm just going to make myself smaller. Yeah, and then here at the top, you have a job section. So you can click here at jobs. Click on that. And then you can go down in class jobs, and you can pick a country. So let's say, where would you like to go? United Arab Emirates, maybe UAE? UAE, okay. So we have Middle East grouped up together, I believe. Yeah, here, Middle East. Then you click on this, Middle East, and here are all the current positions for teaching English in the Middle East. Now, some of them, here's this August 2022, some of them are older, right? But you can still take this email address even from an older position and still send in your application. Okay, but just looking at this now for requirements. So for example, qualifications, diploma or degree or experienced, related, preferred, but not essential. Okay, that's great. Candidates with experience in arts, drama, or dance, welcome, and teflities are preferred. So here it doesn't say anything about native English speaker. So I would take this one and I would just send in my application here. You always have, even though this is an older job description, this school pretty much still exists, right? And the good thing about English teaching is that teachers usually, the teaching contracts they last for a year, right? So many teachers, they stay for a year and then they move away. They go to different school, different country, whatever it is. So these positions are always rotating, right? So even though this is an older position, you can still send in your application because very likely they require teachers all the time. We're looking at this one. Here this is Saudi Arabia. So let's go in, read more. And again, we always have the writer here. So you can put this in your email. And this is the email address for the school. So you can use this and just apply. Okay, so now here for Saudi Arabia, you can see minimum requirements. You must be a native speaker and from one of those countries only. So that's just Saudi Arabia, very strict, right? Bachelors or masters in English or you need to have this, this, this. But even if they say native English speaker, I would still just send it in, right? You can still just send it in. So collect all of these email addresses, all of these names, and then just send in as many applications as you can. That's what I would try. Hope that helps. Hope that helps. I know it's tough, especially in the Middle East. Like I said, it's a very tough region to get into. Okay. All right. Amitava, hi, how are you doing? I'm doing well. How about you? And then we have a question here from Gio, G. Oh my gosh, I hope I'm saying that right. Gioia? I'm so sorry. It's probably wrong. All right. Hello Linda. I'm from Italy. Could you describe a typical course? How long does a course last? Yes, absolutely. Okay. Absolutely. So let's get into that. The courses. Yeah. So which course should you take? Right? It's not so easy because we have, even we have so many different options, but you Google Tefal TESOL course, you get so many different results like on Google. It's crazy. So which course is right for me, for you, for us? Let's have a look at this. Gioia. I hope I'm saying that correctly. All right. So for example, at ITTT we offer between 50 and 550 hours of training. So this is a wide range, but what you want to do is if you're totally new to this, pretty much the minimum internationally is 100 hours plus. So you want to aim for a course with at least 100 hours of study. And the courses are all named according to their study hours. Okay. So, excuse me. Here are the different levels, but let me show you. Yeah. So our most popular option is really this yellow one. So the 120 hour Tefal TESOL course. Why? Because it fulfills this 100 hour minimum. So that's why the 120 hour course is the basic standard course that you want to get if you want to move abroad to teach English. So this is the typical course. And then if you want to do more, you can do more. Okay. So taking this course, this is what it will look like. This is the typical course. This is how much it costs as an example. And here, as you can see, it says stay away from free Tefal courses. So be wary of any 120 hour Tefal course or any Tefal course costing close to nothing or offered completely free with these kinds of things, what you pay, you get what you pay for. Okay. So if you don't pay for anything, if it's free, you get very, very little in return. So cheap and free Tefal courses, they really aren't going to get you the desired teaching job abroad. They're most likely not accredited, not internationally recognized. And they also lack basic things like job assistance or even a hard copy certificate. You won't even get that. So you have to pay for everything extra, which adds up. And it's oftentimes actually more expensive than for example, our ITTT course because those little things add up. All right. So typical core. Yeah. And here, our courses, they are all internationally accredited. They're accepted worldwide. We have good accreditation with different institutions. You can read all about that also on our website with details of all the institutions. So you don't have to worry about any of this. And I actually started with this course as well. I was Googling Tefal course. I knew I wanted to move abroad to teach English. So I Googled Tefal course and I looked at all the results and then I picked ITTT because they had good reviews. The price was good. Everything looked fine. And that's how I also got into this whole world. I was a customer. I started out with taking the course and then I ended up working for them. So how long does this course take? I also have a slide for that. Yeah. So this is that certificate and I'm just going to turn your comment off for a second. So this one is 100% online. Most popular one, it has 20 units, kind of 50-50 split between teaching methodology, teaching theory units, and also focus on English grammar. Because as a teacher, you need to understand and be able to explain grammar, right? So the great thing about this course is that you can study at your own pace. You can study whenever you want, wherever you want. And you have up to six months to complete this course. So what this means is you have up to six months to work through all the 20 units at your own pace. You don't have to be online at certain times and join a class or anything like that. This is all self-study. You study on your own, work through the units. After every unit, there is assessment and you need and you get a grade for that. And at the end, you need to have a minimum average of 75% or higher to pass the course. And then you get an embossed hard copy certificate that is sent straight to your door wherever you live in the world. And you also get a PDF version of the certificate. And most of the time you will actually only need the PDF version to apply, right? You attach that to your online application and then depending on where you teach, for example, for China, a TEFL certificate is required. So then you need to also show the actual certificate at the embassy to get the visa. But other than that, if it's not a requirement for a visa, just for the job, you don't actually have to show the certificate at all. And we also have notarization services available. So sometimes, depending on the country that you go to, you need to get an extra notary stamp. We also do that, but that costs a little bit extra, but it's not required in all the countries. So it depends on where you want to go. And with today's discount, the 30% discount that I shared with you guys in the comments, this course comes down to only 174 US dollars. So that's really, really a good deal. So if you're all new to this, yeah. So how long does it take was your question? You have up to six months to complete it, but most people actually finish it much faster. So depending on how much time you have, are you working also or your other obligations that you have, it's really up to you how long it takes. So for me, I was already working full time at the time, and I only did a couple of units a week, and it took me between three and four months to complete the course. But if you have more time, you can totally complete it much faster. So you can do two units a day. So by 20 units total, if you do two units a day, you can actually finish it in 10 days if you're really in a rush. Don't recommend doing that though, because you really want to kind of study more thoroughly and to get the material really into your head. But technically you could do it in 10 days. Technically. Don't really recommend that though. Hope that helps. Let me know if you want to know anything more about this course. I'd be happy to talk and explain, but this is also the course that I took. The first course with ITTT that I took. Then we have here Jeff. Hi, how are you doing? I'm doing great. It's nice to see you again. Yeah, nice to see you again too. Hi, how are you? Awesome. Yeah. So that is about the 120 hour course. That's the most popular one. So I really recommend that one if you're starting out. Yeah. And this also maybe answers your question. So how long does it take to complete a 120 hour course? So just kind of how the whole thing works. So first of course, you would choose a course. For example, the 120 hour course. And then you work through the units. Right. And you have six months to do that. After that, when you complete the course, at the end, there is no final exam or anything. There is a final summative task. So a short essay about a topic that you can choose teaching related. And then if you pass everything and you have out of all the 20 assessments, you have a minimum of 75%. You pass the course and then you get your certificate. And then you can apply for jobs and then you start to teach. So that's kind of the process, how it works. We also have in-class courses. So that's what this is. An in-class course is what it says. It's an in-class course. So not an online course where you spend four weeks on a actual TEFL center of your choice. And it's roughly eight hours a day in addition to homework and practice teaching five days a week for four weeks. And yeah, you can choose a training center of your choice. When you go to our website, you can go to in-class and you see all the available centers all around the world in Europe, in Asia, in America, in Africa, everywhere. Australia as well. Really every continent pretty much is covered. And you can take an in-class course. And so the difference kind of is just the teaching practice. You get teaching practice when you're at the in-class center. You teach actual students face to face. So that's a really great benefit. You get this teaching practice. With the online course, you don't have that, right? So of course then also the budget is different, right? So in-class courses are a lot more expensive than an online course. So if you don't have a lot of time, if your budget is not that great, an online course might be better. And also nowadays, online course certificates and in-class course certificates are the same. They're valued the same. So it doesn't really matter. It's just for you, you know, if you prefer maybe already going for four weeks to the country that you're interested in, you can go there, right? Do your course, get the teaching practice. And also what's great about that, that most TEFL in-class centers, they will then help you find a job. And sometimes even you can stay at that center and work at their school. They sometimes even hire the trainees that take the in-class courses. So that could be a great way already to get into a teaching job. But other than that, it really is up to you. There's no benefit over one or the other online versus in-class. Nowadays, it's really the same. So, yeah. All right, I hope everything makes sense. But yeah, keep your questions coming.  So let's have a chat. Ask me your questions about teaching English abroad, online, TEFL TESOL, whatever you want to know. This is your time to shine right now. So whatever you're curious about. Like I said, I have slides for the most commonly asked questions as well. So we can go through that if you want. But I'd really much rather prefer you guys asking me the questions so that I can just really answer specifically for you because everybody's background, everybody's skill set, everybody's situation is different. So here you can really let me know, hey, this is where I'm from, this is my school, this is my background, this is what I want to do. What are my options? Sort of like a consultation session right now, specifically tailored to your case, to your situation. Of course, if you don't want to share, you don't have to share. You can always, like I said in the beginning, you can just send me a message here on Instagram. Where is it? Here at Linda Goes East. If you don't want to ask here in front of everybody, that's also cool. But yeah, keep your questions coming. Keep your questions coming. And again, we do have a 30% discount. So you can scan this QR code, get a 30% discount off of your course, or you can also use the link. I'm just going to share this link one more time in the comments section. So everybody has access. Looks like this. Ends with fb live minus Linda. And you copy paste this link. It will lead you to the application page. Maybe I can show you real quick, because sometimes someone might get confused. But basically when you use this link, let me see. Share the screen. Yeah. So then you will see this page. There we go. You click on that link. You see this page. This is the application page. And then you know you did it right when you see this one. You're being granted a 30% discount on every online course and on every in-class course deposit. And here may be some important information for your course. So the registration process is completely free. And it does not commit you in any way. So you can just fill out this form really just for fun. It doesn't commit you in any way. It's totally free. So you can fill out five different applications if you want. It's all good. It's not binding. And anyone fluent in English in aged 18 plus is eligible for our courses. So you don't have to be a native English speaker. You don't have to be from any specific country in the world. As long as you are fluent in English, which means you understand the unit, the units, the course content, and you are over 18, then you are eligible to take the course. No previous experience or qualifications are required. So you can be totally new to this. You can still take this course. You don't have to have a degree or anything like that. Anyone can take this course. And you can just register today and then you receive a free e-guide covering the basics of Tefal TESOL. That's also really good. And all online courses are entirely flexible and self-paced. So this means you work at your own pace in your own time. And then you can even use different platforms here to fill in the form, but you just put in literally your name, your last name. So let's do that just for fun, Linda. And I'm going to do a test. And then you put in your email address here. Also just as a test, for example, and then you pick the course that you want to take. So for example, we just talked about the 120-hour course. So you pick online course and then, yeah, let's do the 120-hour course.  You get a free course with this. And see, it's only $174 with the 30% discount code from this live session. And you get to choose a free additional course. So these are the specialized courses. So let's do, we have young learners. So teaching children, teaching business English, or teaching online. Let's do teaching young learners. That's actually the first specialized course that I also took. I did exactly this. And then later I also took business English. And then later I also took the teaching English online course. And then we say register now. And then it's loading a little bit. You have to wait for just a second. Loading, loading, loading. And there we go. And then your registration has been successfully submitted. And then you can even, you can exit here. You get an email. You can follow up email. You can get another email for like your payment, how the payment works. But you can also do this here. So different payment options, very flexible. We have a lot of different options, even more here, credit card, wise, Apple pay, Google pay, Western Union paypal, WeChat, Alipay, everything. And then it also says here you saved $75. So instead of 249 and you get two courses for $174. So that's really good. And maybe also keep this registration number in mind so that when you email us, you can tell us this number for reference. But yeah, that's all you need to do. And then you can pay and you are ready to go to take the course. That's basically how it works. All right. Amitava has a comment here. As regards the four year degree online course of TESOL, are there any 30% discount as well as installment payment options? Ooh, that's a good question. The four year, I believe just a little bit. So just a deposit. That's usually that's also how it works for the in-class courses. So for example, an in-class course, like I mentioned earlier, you go to one of our actual training centers in a different country.  And then when you arrive at the TESOL center, you pay the rest directly to the center and there's no discount off of that. Because those two are separate. So the deposit goes to us, ITTT. And then the actual tuition goes to the center directly. So that's why there's only a discount on the deposit. And I believe it's the same with the four year degree online course of TESOL. Same with that.  So those two things are separate. Good question. Good question. All right. Well, keep your questions coming. I still have some time. We still have some time left here today. So I want to make sure that everybody who's watching, everybody who's watching right now has an opportunity to ask questions. So yeah, don't be shy.  You can ask whatever you want. Everything is cool. Maybe also we get this question quite a lot. Maybe I'm sure some people want to ask this. So can I teach English abroad without a degree? Right? We talked a lot about with degrees, native speaker, non-native speaker, but what about if I don't have a university degree? So can you still teach English abroad? And the answer is yes, you can. So I actually have a new slide for that. Here. So teaching English without a degree. Yes, you can. It is possible.  But why is it often preferred? So some countries, they actually have rules or restrictions that require a degree in order to obtain a work visa. So in those cases, then it is really impossible. If you don't have a degree, you cannot get a work visa in certain countries. So for example, that is, where is it? China, Korea as well. Japan, I'm not quite sure. But some countries, but actually not that many where it is tied to a visa, right? But a Teflor TESOL qualification is almost always necessary. If it's not a legal requirement for the visa, it is a requirement just set by the schools. Schools just really prefer hiring people with a Teflor TESOL certificate. So if you don't have a degree, you want to get at least a Teflor TESOL certificate. And in that case, the higher the training hours, the better. So you don't really want to stick with only the 120-hour course. Go higher if you can. The higher, the better. We have so many different options. So if you don't have a degree, don't just get the 120-hour course that everybody has. Do more hours. It will benefit you. So how can you increase your chances? Again, with a Teflor certification. And then also with specialized Teflor certificates in teaching young learners or teaching business English, teaching English online. The TESOL diploma course has more hours. So those kinds of things will boost your resume if you don't have a degree. And then you can also teach English online or in person in your community, from home, of course. You can tutor people just to gain teaching experience that will also really help you in your job search. So possible countries where you can teach English abroad if you don't have a degree. Asia is always great, places like Cambodia or Laos. So you want to go Southeast Asia. Also, the best region for people without a degree is undoubtedly Central and South America. So this region provides the most opportunities for non-degree Tefl graduates. Best one. South America, Latin America, Central America. This region is the best if you don't have a degree. And many Middle Eastern countries, they have strict Tefl job requirements. We just talked about a couple of minutes ago. Middle East is pretty much the hardest region to get into because their salaries are very high, their benefits are high, tax-free salaries. So it's very hard to get a job in the Middle East. You have to have really a degree, experience, even sometimes a master's degree, all of this additional stuff. So it's tough. So if you don't have a degree, you probably can't teach in the Middle East. Not impossible, of course, but probably very challenging. So this is teaching English without a degree. And then a lot of people also, of course, ask, how much money can you make teaching English abroad? So also let's have a look at that. So how much do Tefl teachers actually get paid? And so I kind of like to split this up into three different regions. So high-earning potential region, medium-earning potential region, and then the low-earning potential region. So let's have a look. The high-earning potential region, like we just said, is the Middle East clearly. The East has the highest Tefl salaries in all of the world. And then really closely followed by East Asia. So those are countries like China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan. And those two regions are really, really great if you're looking to make the most money out of teaching. Really great, but also their requirements tend to be stricter than in other regions. And what's great there, not only is the salary high, but you also get a lot of great benefits like paid housing, paid airfare, and health insurance. And sometimes even also contract, end-of-contract bonuses, contract completion bonuses. A lot of these places also have a national pension scheme that you pay into. Again, in the Middle East, you have tax-free salaries. You don't pay any tax on your salary, which is amazing. So those things. That's the high-earning potential region right there. Then the next one is the medium-earning potential. So here you can make between 800 to 1,500 US dollars a month. These are places really all over. You can find these kinds of places everywhere. So for example, Thailand is one of these places, Mexico and Spain on three very different continents, I guess, are very different places in the world. But these are medium-earning potential. And here you sometimes also get housing, airfare, health insurance. Sometimes only one of these benefits, not the whole package like in the high-earning potential region. And then we have the low-earning potential. This is usually in Latin America and also certain European countries. And here you don't really get any benefits. You don't get any housing paid. You don't get any airplane tickets paid. You have to care about your own health insurance sometimes. So that's just how it is there. And there you can really make anywhere from maybe even zero, zero to 1,000 US dollars maybe, or to 800, maybe 1,000. Because the problem with Europe is just a high cost of living. So, and if you don't get any housing bonus, anything, you're pretty much just breaking even, right? It's not a comfortable lifestyle. So what a lot of teachers do there, they take on additional like tutoring jobs or online teaching that can just supplement your income that way. So, yeah, you're welcome. You're welcome. So that's that about the salary, how much you can get paid. And then I just want to throw it back to you really. So ask me your questions. What do you really want to know about teaching English? Let me know. This session is all about you guys. So don't be shy.  Just send it in. Send it in. I'd appreciate it. I'd appreciate it because teaching English abroad, Tefalteesol, if you're all new to it, and I remember when I was new to it, it's confusing because there's so many options. And especially so I started this whole stuff in 2014. So that's how long ago. Oh my gosh, too long ago. Nine years ago. That's how I started when I started like looking things up and kind of starting to teach professionally. Before I was always kind of tutoring people in my school and friends and stuff. But 2014, I really kind of started really teaching. And since then so much has changed. So 2023 teaching, 2023 Teesol is so different from 2014 Teesol or Tefal. The opportunities now are just so much more. It's really crazy, especially and I keep mentioning this nowadays in all of the live sessions. But think about and this is also partly because of how like the international work environment changes and also because of COVID and how that has changed. But just teaching English alone has opened up so many opportunities and now also more and more countries are opening up. We're introducing digital Nomad visas or remote working visas so you can move to a different country, get a remote working visa and you can teach English online, for example, and then tutor people in your free time. So this is a whole other level of teaching English abroad because you're not working at a school, you work online, but you are abroad. So nowadays, there are just so many more options and opportunities, especially now after COVID. It's a really exciting time to get into this whole Tefal-Tissel world. Alexis says, is a 120 hour course good enough to start a teaching career? Great question. Okay. So I wonder should I go back to the slide? Let's see. 120 hour course. Maybe just this slide. Okay. Yeah, great. So let's do this one. So the 120 hour course would be a level four Tefal course. So you can see that here. Level four. This is the minimum for teaching jobs worldwide. So the 120 hour course is that it's equivalent to a freshman level university course and it enables you to teach in schools, language centers and online platforms globally. So it says the minimum for teaching English around the world. So it is good enough to start a teaching career. Absolutely. It's the minimum. It's the minimum. The problem with that is though it depends on your other professional background. Do you have a degree or not? Are you a native English speaker or not? It kind of depends on that. And then also where do you want to go teach? If you want to go teach in a very competitive country, region and a lot of people apply, a lot of these people are also going to have a 120 hour course, right? It's the minimum. It's the minimum. So then you really need to kind of look at other options. How can you make yourself stand out? How can you make your resume stand out? What can you do? You can do a higher, a level five, a level six, a level seven certificate to stand out, right? Or you add on these specialized Tefal courses onto your portfolio to stand out because it is the minimum. If you go to a region that is not that popular, not that popular among teachers, yeah, it is totally enough and you probably don't have to do anything else. Or the other thing would be if you are a non-native English speaker, you also kind of want to go and get a higher Tefal certificate and what you can also do. What I recommend always for all of you non-native English teachers out there, get a English proficiency certificate on top of everything. So an IELTS, a Tefal, TOEIC, Cambridge certificate, any of those like big name English proficiency certificates that will really help you as well. So to your question, is a 120-hour course good enough to start a teaching career? Yes, but it depends on where you want to go and also all your other qualifications. So I hope that makes sense and I hope that answers that question. So yeah, it depends. Nowadays really the more Tefal hours you have, the better because the 120-hour course is just the minimum and the standard and nowadays everybody has it. It's a great place to start. It's where you need to start. So the 120-hour course is the first one that you need to take and then all the other additional courses they build upon what you learn in your 120-hour course. I hope that makes sense. You're welcome. And if you just missed that, I just did this one, the application. So we have a 30% off opportunity, the discount I shared in the comments. So with this, for example, what I did, I applied for, I filled out the application for the 120-hour course and then you actually get a free course on top of that. So can I go back? Yeah. So this was the test application. So we picked online course and then hold on one second. Okay, here, online course, which online course? Here, 120-hour and then you get an additional free course on top of that. Here and then you can pick which free course do you want and this already will boost your resume already. Okay. And it's only 174 US dollars. So with this, and these are 50-hour courses, so automatically you have, if you pick this, 170 hours of TEFL training already. So it's already better than the standard and you don't have to pay more. You don't have to pay more. You just have to take an additional course, but really it does not, those are 50-hour courses. You can complete them very quickly. And they're so, so useful. So think about where you want to go. For example, in Asia, a lot of people teach children. So then the young learner certificate would be beneficial. But if you want to go somewhere where you're probably going to teach adults or business English, you choose the business English one. Or if you want to teach English online, you can also do the teaching English online additional course. But for teaching abroad in class, one of those two would be the most beneficial. So yeah, you get two courses in one. So you already have more than just the standard 120-hour training, two in one with this special offer and just for 174 US dollars with this discount if you use the discount. So that's already really, really great. Hope that makes sense. All right. Good question. Thank you so much, Alexis. Appreciate it. All right. We have a little bit more time to take another question. I'm going to be here for just a couple more minutes. So I'm going to be taking maybe just one or two more questions. Let's see. Let's see what's coming through. But I want to make sure that everybody here feels seen and heard. And I want to give everybody the opportunity to ask a question. So don't be shy. Just leave your question or comment remark. It doesn't have to be a question, you know. If you don't agree with something that I said from your own experience, if somebody's already teaching and it's like, oh no, from my experience, it's actually like this, this, this. Let me know also. Let me know. I'm also here to learn, right? I don't know everything. I don't know everything. I'm here to learn as well. I always love this exchange between you guys and then me. I don't want this to be just a lecture, but a conversation where we can all learn from each other. But yeah, keep your questions coming. Keep your questions coming. We also go live again next week, every week this place this time. So if you have any topic suggestions, what you would like me to cover next time, let me know. Also, I always recommend browsing our playlist on YouTube. We have a playlist of all our live sessions and also on Facebook. They're always there. So if you couldn't watch the whole thing today, you can always watch the replay and go back. Also browse that library of previous live sessions because we literally talked about everything under the sun. Anything you can imagine related to teaching, Tefalteesol, we talked about it. There's a lot of info out there. And it's great that you guys are here because that's why we're doing this. That's why I always come here every week, just to share some good stuff with you. And it's great that you're doing this because that means you're really serious about teaching English abroad or online about Tefalteesol because you're here and you're getting all this free information to prepare yourself as best as you can. So that's really valuable. And you're doing great. Everybody who's here made this choice. It's fantastic. So thank you so much. I really appreciate that. But yes, still ask me your questions, guys. Ask me your questions. Just going through if I missed any comments. Also, let me know if I missed a comment here. Maybe sometimes not all of it is showing up here, but let me know. You can also ask another question. If you already asked the question, you can ask another one. There's no limit to how many questions you can ask. Karima, hi, how are you doing? I like your little profile picture. Congratulations. Amazing. Very nice. All right. I think Karima is typing a question maybe. So I'm going to wait a couple of minutes. Do you have a question, Karima? Feel free to ask away about teaching English abroad online, whatever it is. Tefal TESOL courses. You're very welcome. Yeah, please ask away. Ask away. Feel free. That's why I'm here today. To answer all of you guys' questions about teaching abroad online, Tefal TESOL. It's a confusing world, especially if you're new to this. So I get it. There are so many different providers, so many different course options. It's so easy to get overwhelmed and confused. All right, Karima says, I'm seriously interested in teaching English abroad. Excellent. Yeah. Do you already know what region you want to teach in? What country or what part of the world? Let me know. Emilia says, Highlander, I'll be going to Vietnam next year. A curious question, where would you recommend a non-native teacher go to teach abroad? Cool. Yeah. Actually, I think you're doing great with Vietnam. So Southeast Asia is a really, really good region. That is places also like Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam. So really, really good place to go for non-native English speakers. And then also Japan, the JET program. They actually don't have a restriction on nationality. So that's always really good. And then also Latin America is a good region, but I'm very biased. I love Asia. I live in Asia. So I would recommend Asia. Me personally. So I think Vietnam, you're doing great. So are you going there for vacation, for a trip, or you already have a teaching position set up? But congratulations either way. Vietnam is great. I'm back. Not just. We went there like two months ago. We went on a short trip to Vietnam our second time. And it was fabulous. The coffee there is the best. I love it. All right. Karima says I got the ITTS certificate. ITTS. Oh, I need to Google it. ITTS. ITTS. Do you mean ITT? ITS? ITT. Hmm. Is that a TEFL certificate? I'm not familiar with ITTS, but Middle East, maybe. Yeah. So Middle East, I take it you are because of your profile picture, a US citizen. The Middle East has very strict kind of requirements for English teachers. We talked about that. Oh, ITT. Perfect. Yeah, that's okay. TTT. Perfect. Congratulations. So that's great. So yeah, we talked about the Middle East a couple minutes ago, but they are really the best region in the world for teaching English abroad in terms of earning potential. You can make the most money there. A lot of countries have tax-free salaries. You don't pay anything. Any tax on your salary, which is great. So it's a really good region in terms of that. But this comes with a lot of requirements. So they want people, many countries want native English teachers. So teachers with a passport, a citizenship from a certain country, which I think you have now, America, which is great. Also teaching experience. They also want people with a degree. So minimum is bachelor's. If you have a bachelor's degree, that's great. Master's degree, even for some schools over there. Of course, TEFL, T-SOL certificate is great as well. And I think, yeah, if you have all of that, then you're really good to go. If you don't have that, if you don't have teaching experience yet, what a lot of people do who are interested in the Middle East or either way, a lot of people teaching in Asia first, East Asia, so China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, or also Southeast Asia after they taught there for a couple of years to gain the teaching experience. And then they move over to the Middle East because the salaries are so much better there. So that's also what a lot of people do. So you could also do that, go over to Asia first for a year or two to get the teaching experience. And then you have even higher chances in the Middle East. So, but I'm not sure just based on your name, if you also can speak an Arabic language or Arabic, maybe that's even also an advantage for going to the Middle East. Oh yeah, good question. So I noticed that their curriculums Middle East or British, is that correct? Is that incorrect? Is that correct? So I have personally never taught in the Middle East.  Some of them would have an American style curriculum. It's usually depends like on the individual school and just what kind of curriculum they follow. But most schools are really mixed. So this all the schools that I worked at, we have mixed, you know, we had British teachers, but we also had American Canadian teachers, teachers from Europe, and it would really be encouraged to teach like both American English, British English, that would be really encouraged because I think for students that's really important to know, to get to know as many different accents as possible. So usually, they don't discriminate against what type of English you speak. So I don't think that's a problem. Good. Alexis is how long is the offer going to be available for? So the offer is available forever. It does not expire. It does not expire. So what I recommend you just save this link, save it somewhere so that when you are ready, when you know which course you want to take, you can just copy this link and use that for your application. But there's no time limit. But with you know, teaching, if you're thinking about it, the earlier you start, the better because then you are ready sooner for available opportunities. So depending on which country you want to go to and we did live sessions about that in the past, they have different hiring seasons. So if you're like want to go and teach in a specific place and then you're missing that hiring season and that deadline, you have to wait another six months or another year. So the quicker you start and the quicker you do your course, the better it is generally. But the 30% off is available every week during our live session. So save that link and then when you're ready, when you know which course you want, you can apply. Okay, Karima says thanks for answering the question related to the curriculum. Yes, I do speak and teach Arabic and French. Well, I think then that's really great, I think, for teaching English in the Middle East. If you speak Arabic and French, that might be a really great benefit. Really good. I'm not sure. Just I would think so if you can speak Arabic as well, right? So think I keep my fingers crossed for you. I think you have really good chances in the Middle East and it's usually very competitive. So I don't say that lightly. All right, good. I think we're going to do until here today, unless somebody has like a really quick last question, you can throw it in there now. But other than that, I think I'm going to say goodbye and I'm also going to say don't forget to like and subscribe because we go live every week, right? Same place, same time. I'll be here again next week and we always have a Q&A at the end of every topic as well. 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Narcissists will do this to you in the end.  They will act as though they're on your side. And they're supporting you.  But whatever they have led you to believe you will never get that from the Narcissist. And in fact everyone who has dealt with a Narcissist has experienced the same thing. Not only do you not get whatever they led you to want from them or to believe in, but they also end up destroying your dreams of potential. Your cherished aspirations, ambitions and ideals. These visions that you created in your imagination. All of the things that you wanted to happen very much. And it has a long lasting impact and consequence. It becomes your legacy as a result of their past actions and decisions. It's something that you have to deal with on your own. Because they're not going to be there for you. Even though they stripped you of your potential. They limited your capacity to become something in the future. While you were still and realized and undeveloped. They robbed you of your future. Whether it was something you experienced in your childhood. Or something that you experienced later in life. Because they lied to you. They future faked. They made a false promise about the future. Something that they had no intention of doing. Which they used to control you so that they could get what they want. What it left you holding on as it restrained your freedom. And restricted your full potential. It tied you down and held you back. From being the person that you could have become. The person that the world will never know. The person that you were meant to be. Because they insulted you so many times. And it made you lose confidence in yourself. So you didn't think you were good enough for anything. You didn't take action. Or maybe you were just trapped in a relationship with this person who promised you the world. And said that they would do greater things than they could ever be able to achieve. While they invalidated you. Which only left you to think deeply about this confusing situation. They may have stolen your money or property. And you may have lost a career that showed signs of future success or achievement. They may have gaslighted you into doubting your abilities, knowledge and skill. And even your own sanity.   You spent so much time thinking about the things they said. Because you just couldn't understand how they could have no ability to imagine how you feel. It was very confusing. It made you question everything. Until you ended up talking yourself out of your own ambitions. You stopped desiring and wishing for achievements and success. You began to feel hopeless and your level of confidence plummeted. As your situation showed no chance of changing or improving. While you were being gaslighted and validated. And you were experiencing a lot of shame. While overthinking everything that happened to you. Because you feel like you don't even have the right to follow your dreams. As though it's morally wrong or unjustified. For you to work towards something which you desire or hope to accomplish in life. Because you fear that even if you accomplish it. They would only shame you.  Which left you feeling like you weren't good enough. So you didn't take the chance to advance your position. You didn't become the person that you could have been. You didn't manage to make your dreams a reality. When you initially had all of these ideas.  Or that you don't even know who you are. Because it's all just the silence your hopes and ambitions. They laughed at your desires of achieving something. They mocked you. They diminished your accomplishments. They minimized everything you worked hard for. Until one day you accept that you're just fighting a losing battle. You're trying to do something when there is no chance that you will succeed. So you stop trying. Which is exactly what they wanted all along. They sabotaged your dreams. Because they're very insecure. They couldn't tolerate your success. So they deliberately destroyed it. They undermined your aspirations. Because their fragile ego could not tolerate your success. They saw your success as a threat to their ego. It affected their identity and self-esteem. Which wasn't even a genuine sense of self. It was a false sense. Because it was tied to your success or lack of success. It wasn't independent of it. So it wasn't genuine.  Because what you had was real. You established something out of your own love. For wanting to give value and contribute something to the world. Which are incredible things that the world would never get to see. Because a fragile narcissist couldn't tolerate your success. Which is contrary to how a normal person would see things. Because a normal person would want to talk about your dreams. I know for myself. That there's nothing that brings me more joy. Than to know that I am making a difference in people's lives. Even though I may not have had the best start in life. But when you're dealing with a narcissist. It's like instead of running a sprint you're running a marathon. And not only that but they tie a weight around your ankle. They set you up to fail in life. They prevented you from becoming your best self. Because not only did they not care about the magnificent things that could have happened for you. They also didn't care about the impact that it could have had on the world. And it's a painful thing to accept. But yes the only person they care about is themselves. Even if it is at the expense of everyone else. So in the end you learn to accept less than what you really deserve. You're forced to limit yourself and give up on your dreams. Because they needed you more than you needed them. Which is why your success was so terrifying for them. And it's why they restricted your freedom. They limited your power to act speak and think as you want without hindrance or restraint. In the end they destroyed you. And they don't even give you an explanation. You're left to figure it out on your own. You're left to repair the damage that they caused. And not only that but they do it under the guise of a joke.  So that you continue to trust them. And then they can continue to get what they want from you. Which is why they expect things to return to normal. They may even expect you to laugh along with them. Even though they were the cause of your own ruin. Because if you get upset or you show concern. Or even if you start crying.  You're too serious. And you have an inability to find things funny. They will continue to blame you. And they will never stop what they're doing. Or being actively involved in their mockery and ridgical of you. In order to think about what they have said or done. Because they don't see anything wrong with destroying people's dreams and limiting their potential. And their minds is a funny story. It's just a joke. And if you didn't get the punchline. Then the joke's on you. Thank you for watching. If you found this video helpful please give it a thumbs up. Share your thoughts in the comment section. Hit the subscribe button to receive the notifications. If you would like to support the channel. You can donate at paypal.me.s.narksurviva. You can book a one on one with me on my website. It's narksurviva.co.uk. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


Welcome to the Jones library buildings and facilities committee meeting today is Tuesday, October 17 2023. And this meeting is being recorded. I'm going to first perform a soundcheck to make sure we have a quorum and everybody can hear and be heard. George. Here. Excellent Farah here. Alex I'm here as well and we're joined by Sharon ferry our library director. So seeing a quorum calling the meeting to order at 4pm. I'm going to turn to the acts pursuant to chapter 20 of the acts of 2021. This meeting is being conducted via rubber beans. Members of the public who wish to access the meeting can do so by clicking on the live link to the zoom meeting that can be found on the town library meeting calendar. I'm going to start by dialing in by phone. The public is able to comment during the public comment segment of the posted agenda by raising their virtual hand meeting is being recorded and will be posted to the town of Amherst YouTube channel. All right. Only what two more of those to go. I don't have to read that anymore. We also read that. All right. So the first order of business we have is the meeting minutes. Would someone like to make a motion to approve the minutes of September 19 2023. I move to approve the minutes. I second. Great. Thank you. Any questions comments thoughts of the meeting minutes. So, George, how do you vote in favor to approve the meeting minutes. Approve. And I, Alex approved as well. So that's three zero zero. I see we have it looks like three attendees in the audience at the moment. So anyone would like to raise their virtual hand to provide public comment. I'll be happy to bring you into the room. Right. Not seeing any. I'm going to go ahead and move on to the next item on the agenda, which is the delivery van update. So I don't think there's anything new to report. We're in the process of getting the actual charging station. We're just in delivered before the van comes. Obviously, when we get the van, if we don't have a means to charge it, it's only going to be useful for a day or two. So, from the time where we originally ordered the van until it came in, because we're on about a year and a half now for no longer sells the charging stations through the dealership so we have to buy directly from Ford. And that we kind of had to figure out how to make the PO work and all that. So, with any luck the charging station will get delivered before the van and it will be installed and ready to go. So that's, that's as far as I know the van has not arrived at the dealership yet. So it's in route. All right, any questions. It seems pretty clear to me so move on to the next item, which looks like the North Amherst library building product update. All I've got is that they're still waiting for the certificate of occupancy. So I've got North staff, they're working here at the Jones it has to do with the roof, some roof repairs need to be made before the certificate of occupancy will be issued. So, you know, we're trying staff would like a month to get everything back in and organized and, and all of that. So, once we're able to get in there then we'll know when we can reopen. Yay, it's really excited to reopen so. And we are officially out of the, the temporary location. Right. You had said last time that was because it's been re rented to some it's been rented out to somebody else and so it's no longer available for us to use. Okay. Bar did you have a question. I have three questions. One is, I thought this the building was done. So what's the problem with the roof. It wasn't the craftsmanship was not what it should have been so they went and repaired it once and that wasn't good enough and so they've got to go and repair it again. Okay. And where is the staff now like are they just among our life, the other two branches here at the Jones. Oh, they are at the Jones. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I think that a bench was stolen. Has that been recovered. Not that I'm aware of. No, we just, yeah, Paul just told us about it. So I, I don't know. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. So, I guess that I have two questions. So the craftsmanship on the roof was not what it should have been so needed repair. Is that because they didn't play is that on the existing building. No, no, the expansion. The metal roof wasn't installed. Well, Properly. Got it. That's unfortunate. Okay. Okay. And, um, sorry, I'm taking notes while trying to form a question. And the other was, um, Sorry, end of day. My brain is not working. Oh, the other is, so I know we don't have a certificate of occupancy, but does not having a certificate of occupancy preclude us from going in and setting up. We need the lift because we have a lot of heavy books to bring back in. And the lift hasn't been approved yet. Okay. So the problem isn't so much the certificate of occupancy. I mean, they go hand in hand, but without the lift, we can't. It's all of them. Yeah, but I mean, is there anything we could be doing to narrow that month so that it's three weeks or two weeks versus a month or. No, that this is all I can do is give you an estimate and the certificate of occupancy. Right. Is that because what needs to be done in the month time is organizing books which we can't move in until we have the lift. Yeah. So without the lift, we can't bring in this. I guess I just want to understand. There's also, go ahead. Yeah, we can't do any work in the building without a certificate of occupancy. So it also involves it setting up the infrastructure and the computer systems. Also, the, the new desk has not come in yet. So if we're going to use what was in the temporary location for if the new desk is going to come in in time but just because of this renovation, it did shrink shelving. So it's going to take, it's not like they can come back and put everything back where it was. They kind of have to figure out how to reconfigure it and because they haven't been able to spend any time in the building itself, it's kind of hard for them to know exactly what they're going to do as soon as they walk in there. So it's going to take some time. And they, and they can't go into the building and spend time to figure that out because it's not deemed safe yet. It's just not safe. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, okay. So again, I, you know me and my whole building things is all new to me. So, so essentially without a certificate certificate of occupancy staff can't go in and start formulating a plan because it's not deemed safe. And we can't get that until the roof is fixed. And that's the last bit and then town hasn't given us an estimate yet for when that repair work will be done. Okay. All right. I mean, that's again work in town's hands it sounds like so. All right. Thank you for giving us an update. Yep. Sorry, one last. So are these roof, roof repairs built into the cost, the original cost Sharon? I don't think it'll cost anymore. Oh, all right. I would imagine they're having the kind of pay for that. Yeah. But I'm going to get in the town. But yeah, I would hope that's yeah. Okay. All right. If there's nothing else on the North Amherst library then the monthly building and grounds report which I think far still your thunder of the stolen bench maybe but I think else, hopefully not. I don't have anything George. Yeah, I don't have anything to add either at this point.  The other big news, the tent has been taken down. That's a big deal. Yes. Is it, is it gone Sharon? Gone. Okay. It's all pretty outside now. Because because the time because the tent was purchased with with grant funds through the town the town has retaken possession of it so. Okay, last time we were going to try and hang on to it, but they said no. We just don't have anywhere, we don't have anywhere to store it. Okay. It's, it's, there's nowhere to store it. So the town, the town now has possession of the tent. But if we needed it back, we could ask for it. I'm sure we, I'm sure we could. Okay. That's so weird. I was wondering what was so different about the library, but it didn't. You can see the front of it again. Yeah. Even the skeleton is gone. It's awesome. Oh yeah. Yeah. So much more space. So with the, with the heat being turned on. Nothing so far so good. Knock on wood. Everything is operating as it has. Okay. So back up building project planning. So anything new from town on that? Any updates? No, no. Still waiting on town. Okay. So I see. I think we are at four attendees now. And I think we've probably talked about the things that we're going to talk about. So I'm just going to open it up again. If there's anyone. Any public audience who has a question or comment they want to share with the committee. We'd love to hear from you. Okay. Well, thank you for those of you who attended. We appreciate you joining your public comments are always the end questions are always welcome and encouraged. There's no topics anticipated by me. So this was a pretty quick meeting unless there's anything else anyone has. Okay. So I will call the meeting adjourned at four 11. Thank you everybody. Thank you. Good night. Bye.


You know how it goes right at the time, seemed like a great idea, and then after you're like, what was I thinking? We've all made purchases like that and I'm no different. So today I'm actually going to share five of the things that I have regretted buying the most. I'm Brian Sakow and you're watching He Spoke Style where we give you the information and inspiration you need to dress well, have more confidence, and unlock your potential. So you know I'm a big fragrance lover and you also know that I like nice fragrances and one of my favorite things about fragrance is that there's always something new to discover. You know I always have the ones that I go back to but it's the thrill of the hunt for something new and unique and special that really excites me. And one of the fragrances that started creeping into my mind and piquing my interest was one from a house that I was familiar with having seen it and smelled it in some higher end department stores over the years but one that I never actually went ahead to purchase for myself. So the particular fragrance that captured my attention was Baccarat Rouge 540 by Maison Francis Kirkjohn. Never smelled it, never seen it in the store but as I was going down one of my fragrance rabbit holes it was one that started to sound really interesting. For one, Baccarat, I mean beautiful crystal, lovely hotel in New York, great bar where Robin and I have enjoyed a few cocktails that were a little too expensive so it had that allure to it already. Of course, having no idea what it smelled like, I read every review I could find in all the usual places, watched whatever video I could find basically to try and convince myself that this was a good choice. I wasn't completely sold on it based on what I was hearing and what I was reading just kind of didn't sound like something that was me. People said it was kind of orangy on the sweeter side but the thing that intrigued me the most and ultimately swayed me to make the purchase, this was a complete blind buy, was the fact that people were saying that it was transparent so I don't think I'd ever experienced a transparent fragrance before so yes, I spent too much money. Should have gone with my gut, not a fragrance for me.  Next is the story of a mistake I made very early on when I started to get more serious about putting time and effort into how I dressed. It's a mistake that I believe is unavoidable for anyone who gets into this kind of thing, the full video for that is right up there. I wanted to be different, I wanted to show people that I was in the know and one of the brands that at the time for me really stood for that was the Black Fleece line by Brooks Brothers. Black Fleece was designed by Tom Brown known for the quote unquote shrunken suit and like a lot of his tailored stuff it was classic but definitely had his modern take on what men's tailoring should be. The shirts were phenomenal off the rack shirts. The pants were shorter, the leg width was wider than you would expect for pants that short and the jackets were a little short as well. But I'm not talking about the jackets here, I actually kind of really like the Black Fleece jackets. I had of course that crazy navy octagon pattern one, wouldn't necessarily wear it now but I wouldn't say that I regretted buying it. And I also had a big tartan plaid one that I got a lot of use out of. The thing I regret buying however were the matching pants to the tartan plaid jacket, I never wore them. The plaid was just too big, too bold. I thought I could pull them off in like a holiday situation or something. But I tried them on and just could not bring myself to wear them out of the house. Still have them, size BB1 if you want them, hit me up in the comments. Okay, so although I am very fortunate to have a regular photographer that I work with, I do like photography myself and I do need to take pictures sometimes when Rob or Robin is not available. So basically, it's important for me to have my own camera. Before I buy anything, I do lots of research and of course Rob is a great resource for things like that. Well, I was in the market for a camera around 2013, 2014. I wanted something that wasn't too expensive, like around no more than $1,000 but that could still take really good photos. Ideally, I was looking for something that I didn't have to buy a lens for. So pretty much what I wanted was a really nice point and shoot. Rob and I had gone on our very first trip together as part of He Spoke Style. We spent this really whirlwind weekend in Venice, Italy as a guest of Purcell. His usual camera, the camera that we shoot all the photos on is a Canon 1DX Mark II. Way more camera than I needed or cared to deal with. But on that trip, he did take an extra camera with him to shoot a little video and just play around with and it was the Fujifilm X100S. Small, powerful, good looking camera that he really liked. So that is actually the camera that I ended up buying. I absolutely hated that camera. Maybe it takes a certain kind of photographer to use that camera but I could never get it to do what I wanted. I can't count the number of times that I was so disappointed in the photos that I'd taken. There were instances where I needed to get a good shot and it just failed me. And I tried to get better with it but it just did not work for me so it ended up being more of a prop than anything else which was terrible. Next, this is not style related in any way, shape or form for the record. You may know that I used to race a bike and bicycle racers are very particular about their equipment. At the elite level, small things like your shifters, your brake calipers, your tires can all make a really minute but huge difference when you're stacked up against people who are all basically at the same ability level. Wheels are one of those things that are extremely important. And since it isn't style related, I will try to keep it shorter but there is a very scary story involved here. So I was looking at getting a pair of Zip 404s but they're really expensive. And there was this guy kind of in the cycling community around here who started selling his own wheels so I decided to support him instead. As soon as I got these wheels, I felt like I had made a huge mistake. They were light, which is good, but they felt really cheap to the point of like not inspiring any confidence on the bike at all. So that next weekend there was a road race and my job in that race was to attack early on, get in a breakaway, make the field chase me so my teammate could sit in and then launch a counter attack once they caught me. I did exactly that but this was one of the most frightening breakaways that I had ever done. It was a very hilly course, there were a lot of fast downhills and these wheels were freaking me out. They were supposedly trued but they were wobbly and I literally thought they were gonna fall off the bike or break in half. So imagine what that feels like when you are going down a hill on a bike at 45, 50 miles an hour with only a thin layer of spandex between you and the pavement. I got rid of those things real fast, bit the bullet and got some zip for a force. The moral of the story is that it's worth paying more for quality. So how cool are people like Angel Ramos, Jake Muser, Matt Hranek, Steve of the Snob Report, etc. I love seeing photos of these guys on Instagram. Their style is just so natural and relaxed and easy going. It's very inspiring to me and I really like their approach. And one of the things I saw all these guys wearing quite a lot over the last year, year and a half or so was a particular pair of sunglasses. Sunglasses are tough for me, I have kind of a narrow face so there are a lot of sunglasses that just don't work for me. Some of them that I really love like the Purcell 649 or 714 or even Arabian aviators thankfully come in smaller sizes and those are always the sizes that I wear. Now the sunglasses in question that I was seeing all these guys wear, they just look so cool, were the Porsche designed sunglasses by Carrera. So I started looking into them and was kind of disappointed to find out that typically these are very wide which definitely meant that they would be way too large for my face and look completely ridiculous. But the more reading I did, I did find that there were smaller sizes available, particularly in vintage models. So I hopped on eBay, searched for vintage versions and specifically ones that were designated as small. I found a few pairs and the pair that I liked the most wasn't that expensive. It was like 100 bucks, so I decided to roll the dice. You wanna see what these things look like? Yeah, not really for me. The takeaway is that we all make mistakes and it doesn't even really matter how much knowledge you have about a certain thing. I talk a lot about suits and tailored clothing on the channel but that doesn't mean that I haven't made my fair share of mistakes when it comes to my own suits. I can't make decisions for you, but hopefully sharing mistakes that I've made and talking about why I decided to do those things can help you if you find yourself in a similar situation. And that's exactly what I talk about in that video right over there. So click there to find out what I view as my worst custom suit mistakes.