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[Iosif]

First of all,hello, I'm from Romania,and recently I decided to change my path,my career choice and become a teacher.

If this will work out,or I shall scream in pain and frustration,I can't say,but I hope that I will be a good teacher.

With the help of my parents I opened a small business,I even managed to go to China,mostly for buying merchandise,never really got to see anything special like the wall or the forbidden city. The economic crisis,corruption,bureaucracy and a lot of other issues helped in pretty much killing all my hopes and dreams of ever opening a business again.


Since I am for the moment unemployed,and in the past I actually wanted to teach.....well it's not too late,I'm 28 not 58 so I can still try and see if I am made out for this.

Now I looked at China because they do not require so many diplomas and years of experience as for instance countries in EU or the arab world,and since I was in China before(not as a tourist living only in 5 star hotels),I have a vague idea about certain things in that country.

My questions would mostly consist about:

I am not a native,how much will that affect my chances of employment and a good pay?

I have a few months teaching experience at a university and an English camp,I have the required diploma as in psycho pedagogical module,but I do not want to enter the corrupt state system in Romania to become a teacher. People in my country are mostly discouraged by a completely useless,wasteful and bureaucratic system,education is no exception.

If I do not have years of experience,nor am I a native,what could I realistically expect? In terms of pay,conditions and so on. My IELTS academic exam results should be out in a few weeks,now that I did mostly as proof,as in "me know English" . TEFL for the moment is out of the question,I can't afford 2000$ on a piece of paper.

So what would you people say,or write about this? What could I expect?

Btw,university International Relations and European Studies.....not much to do with English teaching,but it did not have anything to do with managing a small business either and I did that just fine for almost 6 years. I am also finishing my master's,hopefully this year since I have a lot of other things to do,the master is in evaluation of public policy.

[nomad soul]

You'll get some responses on this forum but definitely more exposure to your questions if you post on the China jobs discussion forum.

[Iosif]

You have a point there,what to do now?. I don't want to start another topic on the China job forum as well or should I?,maybe someone could move the whole topic for me.

Honestly I did not know where to start the topic,it's mainly about China,but that's because of the lower requirements in that country for people who want to teach English.

I would gladly go to the UAE or Saudi Arabia,but they have really high standards and requirements that are frankly above my current level. I also tried my luck in Jordan(stayed there for a bit more than a month). It's not so much about the extreme requirements for teaching English there,it's more of a work visa issue ,and most people from Jordan go to either Saudi Arabia or the Emirates to further their careers and fill their pockets.