Teaching English Abroad

[HisMajestyBOB]

I sometimes want to just become a professional English teacher. If I alternated places like Abu Dhabi with places like Bhutan, I could probably save up some decent money.

Only problems are that I'd have to get rid of my new-ish car, and I wouldn't have any permanent  home to store all my stuff.

[The Brain]

I pass, like night, from land to land. I have strange power of speech. That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me. To him Swedish I teach.

[Capetan Mihali]

I pass, like night, from land to land. I have strange power of speech. That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me. To him Swedish I teach.

[Ideologue]

...Wait, $3000 a month?  Go wait tables, man.

He said $3000-5000, and I doubt I'll be making much more than $4000 a month as a lawyer.    (Being a public defender in most parts of the country averages a $45-50k salary, if I recall...)

I was being a little facetious.  But you're right.  That spectrum really does make a lot of difference: $36k is about what bottom-of-the-barrel doc review work gets here.  And you don't have to live in the UAE.

Also, I misread his figure, so it turns out.  $3500 vs. 3000.

[Grinning_Colossus]

Does anyone know the etymology of 'schlong'? Did it work its way into Yiddish via Russian somehow? It means 'hose' in Georgian.

[jimmy olsen]

Tyr, filling out a JET application as a backup. It went up late in the states this year.

What is the driving situation there for foreigners? Would you chance it?

I assume preferring a rural posting will get me much more likely to be selected, but I imagine that will that make me a lot more likely to drive as well.

[Eddie Teach]

Has it really only been two years since Tim started this thread? Yeah, I think Malthus's theory about time speeding up as you get older is a load of baloney.

[Josquius]

Tyr, filling out a JET application as a backup. It went up late in the states this year.

What is the driving situation there for foreigners? Would you chance it?

I assume preferring a rural posting will get me much more likely to be selected, but I imagine that will that make me a lot more likely to drive as well.

Lots of people complain about Japanese drivers sucking and certainly a lot of the roads in estates are pretty small. My one encounter with driving here though was pretty fine and I don't know anyone who has had an accident beyond one girl who got bumped somewhat by an old woman.

And no, picking rural won't make you more likely to be picked. It will make it more likely you get your first pick but not more likely to get picked at all, just pick places you can come up with good reasons for picking (as why you picked your places is something they will pick up on in the interview).
I'd recommend picking a little known city, gives you a bit of city excitement but means you won't be competing with a bazillion Tokyo or busters. Kobe I know for instance has a fuck-tonne of Jets and then there's lots of other small cities that could be worth picking- Sendai for instance is apparently pretty much back to normal and awesome and has quite a few Jets. Then there are even lesser known cities out there with decent links to Tokyo or Osaka and respectable populations of their own.

Oh, and a warning, be careful with mentioning anime.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Arrived yesterday. Looking forward to apartment hunting this weekend.
Little kids should be banned from all international flights. Or put in the cargo hold.

Tyr and Tim, you should th go to Shanghai for vacation.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Hey Tim check out EF English First. Theyre in Japan too.

[Josquius]

Arrived yesterday. Looking forward to apartment hunting this weekend.
Little kids should be banned from all international flights. Or put in the cargo hold.

Tyr and Tim, you should th go to Shanghai for vacation.

It is really high on my list actually.
Flights in Asia are expensive though, and China has shitty visa stuff.

[jimmy olsen]

Hey Tim check out EF English First. Theyre in Japan too.

What are they? Recruiting agency?

[HisMajestyBOB]

Hey Tim check out EF English First. Theyre in Japan too.

What are they? Recruiting agency?

It's a language school. They have schools for adults and for kids - the one for kids is where I'm teaching. It's after school and on weekends, and you get 2 days off during the week, at least at my school. It also has pretty fast promotion, it seems - the director of the branch I'm at has been an English teacher for just over 2 years or so.

[The Brain]

Swedish founder of EF Bertil Hult is rich even by Languish standards.

[jimmy olsen]

Hey Tim check out EF English First. Theyre in Japan too.

What are they? Recruiting agency?

It's a language school. They have schools for adults and for kids - the one for kids is where I'm teaching. It's after school and on weekends, and you get 2 days off during the week, at least at my school. It also has pretty fast promotion, it seems - the director of the branch I'm at has been an English teacher for just over 2 years or so.

How much are you making?