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Isla Guapa
Joined: 19 Apr 2010
Posts: 1520
Location: Mexico City o sea La Gran Manzana Mexicana
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| Tretyakovskii wrote: |
For those who are motivated, self-employment can easily be the best paying option, and offers the greatest flexibility of schedule, as well as many other advantages: Mexico makes getting permission to live and work here fairly easy for those who arrive apostilled documents in hand. |
I second that! I'm 66, have been here for a few years, and have had no trouble finding private students, all but one of whom make the trek to my apartment for classes. After you've been here for a while, you'll get most of your prospective students through connections. Age had never been an issue for me, by the way. |
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EFLeducator
Joined: 16 Dec 2011
Posts: 595
Location: NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 2:36 am Post subject: |
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| Tretyakovskii wrote: |
| For those who are motivated, self-employment can easily be the best paying option, and offers the greatest flexibility of schedule, as well as many other advantages: |
Yeah, but you forgot to mention some of the DISadvantages to self-employment.
Private students cancel a lot and some even stop alltogether. A fellow professional TEFLer who is still teaching in Mexico City told me this morning that a student canceled classes. Said things are too busy these days. That's fine, life happens but it doesn't change the fact that self-employent is not a good stable form of work when it comes to TEFLing in Mexico City. I base this on personal experience teaching and living there plus the same has happened to all Mexican and foreign teachers I met there.
Try a colegio. More stability.  |
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Tretyakovskii
Joined: 14 Aug 2009
Posts: 462
Location: Cancun, Mexico
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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I know they do (cancel a lot), and that's why I never made a practice of seeking one-on-one teaching assignments; instead, I offered only group lessons, and required advance payment, making "no shows" not much of a practical issue as I got paid, anyway. (I made an exception for those who told me they were going out of town for more than just a few days, considering it too draconian to charge for those missed lessons: however, if they didn't return when they said they would, I replaced them in the group.)
I practiced English teaching in this way for years, in a variety of countries, so it wasn't a one-off. |
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