This is a good thread, mostly because posters aren't really brow-beating each other. It seems to be summarizing many of the threads I've been reading here.

I'm just wondering if anybody has written articles about this for hard-copy TEFL mags? It seems to me, many of the people that get interested in TEFL do so from seeing ads in travel type mags. Has anybody seen any kind of expose' recently that could bring some of this to light, and give a lot of this helpful advice to prospective teachers before they get too involved? Before they get to a place and situation and are saying WTF to themselves? Or maybe a two author article; one to write about the positives and the other to point out the negatives and all the traps involved?

I'm just wondering; I haven't noticed any, but I get only one journal.

Thanks!