Working for a well-known international academy

I´m fed-up with working for unknown outfits that advertise block-hours when you are lucky they only have three hours a week for you. I´m fed-up with the tedium of turning up to large companies when no-one is there. I´m tired of women from such agencies phoning me to say that my class has been cancelled, therefore, you lose money. I´m tired of having very boring conversations with business executives who I have absolutely nothing in common whatsoever. I hate having to make endless photocopies that are goinhg to be thrown in the bin by the student(s) at the end of the day.
I´ve decided to work for a well-known academy that offers me guaranteed classes with very little travel. I´m guaranteed good hours and don´t have to run around like a headless chicken on the metro all day. I don´t have to carry heavy bags in a backpàck that is gradually falling apart. I can put all my beloved books into one locker. I know I´m going to receive the same amount of money every month.
However, the hours can be quite unsociable. When all my pals are down the pub on a friday night, I´m stuck in a classroom till 9.30pm. Afterwards, I can´t go out like most teachers, get blind drunk and whinge about the state of academies in Spain. No, I have to be up to teach 10-12-year-old kids who´d rather be somewhere else? So, why do I do it? I like the lifestyle. It beats the rat-race at home. I have more light in the winter in Madrid and am more likely to run into people I know than I am in my hometown.