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Who was in charge of deciding to use M83 for the trailer? They deserve a raise.

I did a bit of volunteering for ALS Ontario a few years back. Part of what I did involved typing little "write ups" on people with ALS who were participating in whatever local fundraiser was happening. This involved calling people with ALS and essentially interviewing them about the horrors of the disease, and the suffering they had endured. My heart broke for them and it does for you too. All I can say is, keep fighting and keep spreading awareness! Money isn't just needed for research, but also to support families such as yours who will incur lots of costs (not covered by insurance, even in Canada) related to the disease. Much love and best of luck.

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It really varies depending on where you work. Specifically, whether you work at a fly-by-night English academy or a legitimate International school. People don’t distinguish between the two but honestly the gulf between them in the education world literally could not be more vast. I should know, as I have worked at both.

I met my wife working at one of the places you are describing - and no, it wasn’t me being a “sexpat” poaching local girls - she was over in Korea doing the same thing as me and happened to be from a city not far from mine back in our home country. The sexpat thing was for sure very common though, I knew plenty of guys who could be described as such. As for getting a job, it was a complete joke. Are you a white native English speaker with a university degree? Congratulations, you are hired. I was not at all a skilled teacher at that time, nor were most of my colleagues.

I returned home and decided I wanted to be a teacher for real. I went to teacher’s college with my wife. We ended up getting a job in Hong Kong at a proper international school that featured my home country’s curriculum. After 3 years there , my wife used that experience to get a job at a better school. After six years, I did the same. The school I work at now is insane, I feel really lucky to work there. They told us straight up they get hundreds of applications for each opening. The average pay is more than 100k USD a year. The school itself is crazy, it puts most North American schools to shame. We have our own app, we do multiple international trips with students every year (pre-Covid), the professional development we get is top-of-the-line worldwide, our campus looks like some sort of architectural statement gracing the shoreline. I don’t mean this in a braggy way - like I said I feel very lucky to have this job and it took years of concerted to get - but to illustrate a point. When someone says they teach in Asia, it can mean a WIDE variety of things.

How would you compare Orville to Galaxy Quest (which I found quite funny)?