1000Knives wrote:
TheValk wrote:
WRT priesthood, if you're determined to go that very narrow way, might as well go all the way I think. You'd do a better job than me if I tried, I'm sure. Not a decision to make on your own by measuring all the ups and downs if you know what I mean. Monasticism is one way of avoiding married life and the numerous difficulties that come with it altogether.
The problem with priesthood is I don't feel responsible enough to be in a position of power or be a spiritual father and give infallible (well not infallible, but much more trusted than average person) advice regarding the states of people's mortal souls. Oddly lots of people bring up monasticism to me. I really have no desire to be a monk. I also kinda feel like if I became a monk, I'd probably have lots of feelings of resentment toward God, because I'd feel like monasticism would be punishment for my cowardice in telling women how I felt (my problem isn't even really rejection, I just suck at that.)
Don't do it, if you don't want it. There are other options. From what I know about you posting here, here is what you should do, as long as you're fairly competent to live by yourself (actually, very).
1. Make a fake diploma from a good state university like UVA. Make a fake transcript with a pirated version of Adobe Acrobat just for kicks, though it's highly unlikely they will ask for it.
2. Make an embellished resume
3. Make a fake CELTA Certificate, or better yet, do a real CELTA course if you can find one. If you don't know what that is, google it.
4. Go teach English at either a second-tier city university or a language mill like Omeida Language College in Yangshuo, China, or Aston.
A first-tier university will check your degree and references. The places like I mentioned don't. PM me if you need links to job boards with all these jobs posted. I can also advise you on which ones are semi-credible. I didn't end up teaching English in China, but I went there for that purpose originally and ended up doing something else, but I'm familiar with the process.
Once you've got a few years of experience, a first tier university may hire you without checking your stateside stuff, just based on your experience in China.
Things are pretty backwards in China. The Chinese fake their degrees and stuff all the time. There are even consulting firms set up to serve as proxy references in some instances. My company did a little of that with respect to U.S. universities checking references and stuff. It's part of the local culture to embellish one's credentials, so you shouldn't feel to bad doing it. It's a cultural difference and part of the Chinese "face culture." Seems awful as a Westerner, but live there for a year or two, and you'll see it's just a different culture.