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Teacher in Rome · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 1286

mdk: you could look into generating revenue from websites. Both working nomad and ted karma do this successfully and teach at the same time. I've run a website for knocking on nine years, and also found that advertising revenue is a very good source of income. Obviously, you need to work at it, find a subject that you're interested in developing, write content, get your site noticed etc etc. It's not an easy option necessarily, but worthwhile in the long term.

mdk · Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 425

That's an intriguing idea. I don't think it would be my cup of tea, but perhaps somebody else would do well at it.

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

Teacher in Rome · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 1286

Yes, though before Google came along, there were tons of other advertising options as well.

Apart from websites, many people also run blogs and there are many, many income streams and potential if your blog is rated highly enough. I read an interesting article on problogger the other day where google adsense was used in only 8 of the top 30 visited blogs.

booty · Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 94

I have been teaching in Europe for a couple of years. However, I return to the UK every summer, not to teach but to work as a decorator. It gives me a break from teaching for a while and I can earn a lot more money than I could working in a summer school in the UK.
Doing this keeps my bank managers sweet so I when I return to Europe, I don't have to worry too much about debts.
For me, EFL is a second career, but I don't want to be an English Droid forever.

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

mdk · Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 425

Dear Booty,

That's quite interesting. Do I understand correctly that you are an interior decorator?

May I ask?

1) Where in europe do you usually teach?

2) Do you have complications with your tax status working in both countries? The US will let me write off all my foreign earnings if I stay out long enough.

3) Do you agree that your other career brings breadth to your ability to teach English?

4) Do you work with private lessons or are you on staff somewhere?

P.S. Thanks for the input and don't mind the pesky "droids".

tedkarma · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:03 am Post subject: