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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

TEFL in London pays minimum wage. Don't do it.

canadashirleyblue · Joined: 06 May 2007 Posts: 162

Nick,

You could go to the Uk. Apply for a British passport and you can stay forever.

The pay will NOT be triple/double or even equal to what you are getting now. This is because you will not get a job teaching in the UK.

The best possiblity for you there would be bar work.

I think you are REALLY lucky that you have the job you have and you should hold onto it because you are unlikely to get another.

The possiblilities for people with no life experience, limited education and no interest in self improvement are in short supply everywhere.

jammish · Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 1704

Dedicated · Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 972 Location: UK

I think the best you could hope to find at age 20, with no qualifications, but a little experience, might be to try for summer work as an activity teacher/organiser on a course for teenagers.
Look at the many websites advertising short summer programmes for Italian/Spanish/Russian teenagers and you will see they need help (but not teaching in the classroom). They provide accommodation and meals.

Otherwise, you could try for a classroom assistant's post (they are in great demand) but will need to get CRB clearance to work with children.

With British parents, I think you should be able to get a British passport...check it out.

Insubordination · Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 394 Location: Sydney

I'm Australian, my Dad's English and I have a British passport. The form's a bitch (old birth, marriage certificates etc.) but it isn't a problem. You could then work in the EU and some countries might overlook the fact that you don't have a degree (that is if teaching's really what you want to do).

desert_traveller · Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 335

BELS · Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 402 Location: Moscow

BELS · Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 402 Location: Moscow

His parents are English, he has the right to work with perhaps going though a few formalities maybe. If he can live with family or friends he might be better off than China. Or he has the option of looking for other better paid jobs that he cant get in China. His advantage is that English is his first language, where it is not in China. His life will be much more flexible in the UK.

SueH · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 1022 Location: Northern Italy

Well, I did point out he'd probably earn more doing bar/cleaning work!

I think the responses were partly due to the naivety of the initial post - "earn 2/3 times in London" - than any wish to dissuade.

coledavis · Joined: 21 Jun 2003 Posts: 1838

I can't speak for other schools in the UK, but one London school paying the princely sum of �11 an hour is only taking graduates with a good TEFL qualification. Other schools may be more accommodating about qualifications, but their hourly pay rate is likely to be lower than bar-work, as suggested by previous contributors. Maybe administrative work would be better paid.

desert date · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 67 Location: Australia