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[Henry_Cowell]

If you're dynamic in the classroom and can prepare curriculum materials, why not look into corporate training? With your experience and educational qualifications in business, you'd make a good sales trainer, customer support trainer, or marketing consultant.

Training is really "in" these days -- and "in" demand all over the world. Add your expertise in English-language development, and you could easily find something anywhere, including the U.S. Salaries for corporate trainers and consultants beat those in English teaching by a good measure.

[Sweetsee]

Smoke spliff in morning, feel like steel all day long.

[gaijinalways]

I think I would like that, though at my age it might be difficult to break into that line, but it's worth a shot. Had a friend previously doing that, he also did some rewriting of factory manuals which sounds like a nice break from teaching as well .

And hold that thought sweetsee, that time is now, contemplation is deep .

[Sweetsee]

Give thanks and praise, herbe is the healing of the nation.

[Miyazaki]

Two possibilities which you may or may not be open to and that others have already suggested:

1. Step away from teaching EFL for several months.

2. Get out of TEFL'ing in North-east Asia altogether and try a change of scenery.

3. Find EFL jobs that provide healthy periods of time off (mainly Jr. colleges, high schools and univ., of course). But it sounds like you already get the long summer / winter vacations working at universities.

I've found a school that gives me the summer and winter vacations off and this has helped my outlook tremendously.

[gaijinalways]

3 is okay, but the students there are giving me pause on getting education in Japan. The first two suggestions I have already addressed.