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gungediana · Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 82

Don't listen to Voltaire for god's sake whatever you do. He's talking out of his arse quite frankly.

If you tried to do what he suggested you'd have a crap, uncomfortable lifestyle. You'd probably be living somewhere with no air-con for a start which would be a nightmare in Thailand. You'd be doing a very very poorly paid job too. You probably couldn't afford health insurance....etc etc.

You've got the right idea doing the CELTA and doing plenty of research on where you want to go mate. TESOL is like any other industry, you reap the rewards from working hard and taking it seriously. Get qualified and you can get up the payscale quickly.

Until you have the experience and quals to be applying for Director of Studies jobs etc the only places you can make any decent money are eastern Asia (Japan Korea Hong Kong) and the Middle East.
However, once you get to a certain level you can apply for well paid DOS/Senior positions anywhere.
Then you can obtain the holy grail, (as far as many male ESL teachers are concerned) which is a well paid job in an Indochinese or Latin American country with great weather loads of attractive and available women around!!!!

GambateBingBangBOOM · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan

Dataman · Joined: 09 Jun 2009 Posts: 5 Location: Thailand

Which century is Voltaire living in?

For the record, foreigners don't get interest from Thai bank accounts.

Marquess · Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 165

That is right-become an EFL teacher when something goes wrong in your life like losing your job.

spanglish · Joined: 21 May 2009 Posts: 742 Location: working on that

Entertaining thread. To the OP: If you want specific advice on living and working in Colombia, pm me or reply to this thread. You can definitely live okay here, but it's not an easy country to get started in ESL. As a beginner teacher, I would never come to Colombia primarily for teaching. Personally I'm here for the Spanish, but that's difficult to keep up with as a busy always speaking English English teacher.