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denise
Joined: 23 Apr 2003
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Location: finally home-ish
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There are plenty of full-time jobs out there. Keep in mind that full time=20ish hours per week. The rest of the time is spent prepping, marking, attending meetings, etc. It adds up to a full-time schedule.
I've had a few lonely days here and there, but generally no, I don't feel lonely. If you're worried about it, particularly with a language barrier, then look into jobs/cities with large-ish expat communities. You can also meet the locals through language exchanges. You can take up all sorts of hobbies, both things that you already do at home and things particular to your new country & culture.
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elamericano
Joined: 10 Nov 2007
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I've been able to pay into US Social Security by declaring self employment income (attach schedule C to your 1040) and paying the FICA self employment tax (attach schedule SE).
Combined with the foreign earned income exclusion from income tax (form 2555), it is a good deal. |
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GambateBingBangBOOM
Joined: 04 Nov 2003
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Location: Japan
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| Justin Trullinger wrote: |
DO try it out for a year or two and see how you like it.
DO NOT get your masters until after you know how you like it.
A lot of good masters programs won't take you until you have some experience anyway.
But why would you spend that kind of money without knowing if you'd like it? Slow down, take your time... |
All very good advice. I know people who spend a year in university getting a TESL certificate, and never teach ESL. But then, they use it to get accepted into a faculty of education for a year to get a B.Ed to teach at the primary/junior, junior/intermediate or intermediate/senior level... and many of them never teach in their level either. Why? Because they had no experience in it before they went to school for it and discovered that it's not what they thought it would be. And then after that, they often end up in a community college learning how to write marketing communications or something like that (again, without any experience in it until the placement). 
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I don't know where you're getting the "part time" information. In countries where I've lived, part time teaching positions would be extremely unusual.
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They're common in Japan.
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| I've had a few lonely days here and there, but generally no, I don't feel lonely. If you're worried about it, particularly with a language barrier, then look into jobs/cities with large-ish expat communities |
When I lived out in a small city away from Tokyo, people freaking out from the isolation in a totally different culture was common (people, like me, who had been there for a few years, would help them out). In fact, getting contact with other native speakers of English for the people way out in rural areas of a prefecture is the main reason for JETs to have prefectural conferences several times a year. |
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