If Jake's topic would have been just that, it would have been a question relating to a "career" in the ESL industry (which in fact is none for obvious reasons), and it also would have been clear that a TEFL cert online does not make him a qualified and good teacher. As a qualified teacher, you need to have at least these things to be really qualified:

1. Years of study at college and/or uni in the subject area you will be teaching later. You need to know your subject well if you are going to teach it. For ESL, this subject area could only be a major in English.

2. Sound teacher training. For ESL, this does not only include a 4-week a superficial crash course in practical teaching skills; you need to know the theory behind all this and need to be trained to apply it to your practical needs in teaching well; you need to be able to critically reflect on textbooks and their approaches, so you will need some training in the history of ESL methodologies, why a certain methodology came about, what are its pros and cons; you need to have some understanding of first and second language acquisition, etc. Such a sound teacher training will at least take another year to complete successfully and necessarily would include teaching practicums covering all aspects of teaching ESL: On the other hand, what commercial providers offer in their crash courses is compared to what I have outlined Mickey Mouse bullshit, and does not make you a real qualified teacher. Instead, it will prepare for acting like a monkey in a crappy Chinese kindergarten or other training centre, use some games and songs. But it will not qualify you to teach English composition writing or to teach reading skills at a more advanced level. Don't maker a mistake to equate ESL with acting as a white monkey in a muppet show at a rubbish Chinese kindergarten or training centre; professionally it's really more than that.

3.Practical teaching experience at real decent schools and not only at crappy Chinese kindergartens and training centres. The latter ism not of much value in your professional record; teachiing at middle scvhools or at unis ism much better and would attest to your professional quality.

4. In addition to knowledge in the subject area and in teaching and all practical teaching experience, you will need to develop a personality that makes you a thoughtful and responsibke teacher developing a work ethics that pertains to this profession. Your only chance to develop that and to mature and grow in it is to work in a professional environment with the iompacts of a peer community that they have on you and you on them. It's not rhe environmemt of rubbish kindergartens and crappy training centres in China but an ordinary work ernvironment of decent schools, unis and colleges. One of the key issues will be to see why as a professional educator you should never put commercial concerns over educational ones.

Unless you meet this profile in all 4 points I have listed, you cannot call yourself a qualified teacher. The process of becoming a qualified teacher is one of hard and disciplined study, practice, and of gradual and continuing growing and maturing. Jake's input attests to the fact that he sees teaching as pure business and that questioning justified complaints from concerned teachers in crappy training centres is more important than discussing such complaints themselves in their subtance. This makes Jake appear a professisonal businessman who knows how to run a crappy training centre with all it cheat for maximum profit, but it does not make him a professional teacher, As simple as that.

As for jake, i think he refers to the angry baboons as the middleaged men whose last resort was go to China due to bad luck at getting jobs back home. They go to China with their masters in education that they most likely did as an online course.