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Fatcat · Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 92 Location: Athens, Georgia

Does anyone have any part-time jobs outside of teaching? I ask because if times get tight, would I have any other options to fall back on for income(legal options, of course!) I should add that my spanish is probably at an intermediate level.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Translation jobs if you can...you have to network for that. Writing freelance? That's what I'm working on now...

MELEE · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject:

Translation can be profitable if you have the language level. I've also done interpreting but never for pay, either as a volunteer or in exchange for room and board with non profits whose cause I supported.

For money, I've done freelance work for a couple of ELT publishers, I got this work by knowing the right people, who I met by being in the right place at the right time. This work is very lucrative, but not very steady.

MixtecaMike · Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 643 Location: Guatebad

Probably none of these are legal, as your FM3 means you are entitled only to work for specified employers. Plus I have heard Meelee is a bit of a bandit, she has been rumored to use other peoples recibos on occasion.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

MELEE · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject:

Hey the employer suggested that I borrow a recibo from someone....

But I now got my own, and the SAT office never once asked if which job I was going to use them for... Wink

Samantha · Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 2038 Location: Mexican Riviera

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Samantha · Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 2038 Location: Mexican Riviera

That is Canadian speak for a "growing business". I guess it is a bit of both, depending on how it affects one personally.

I find that the doctors and lawyers won't join group classes, they want privates to fit their schedules. And school children need extra help too. The results of English classes in some of our local schools are not great. The teachers speak and introduce the lesson in Spanish. They have no practice speaking English. Parents will pay to have their child take classes with a native speaker.

I am working with a 4, 5 & 7 year old, all going to the same expensive private school (sisters). The 7 year old knows the least English of all and she has been in this top school for over 3 years. The 4 & 5 year olds are so enthusiastic. They think English is fun. If you have the patience that is the age to teach them! They are like sponges, so I am sure they will come away with a Canadian accent! Embarassed

The 7 year old has already heard that it isn't very "cool" to study English. She will grow up to be one of the children that you have to tolerate in high school. I am not sure where her enthusiasm went but it's not there. Her father is a lawyer and wants her to learn English so at least he is trying to help her along. She can't possibly be passing her classes because the comprehension is not there. But I bet she gets a pass anyway. Just the way it is here. I hope I can make a difference for her.

delacosta · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 325 Location: zipolte beach

[Canadian speak for a "growing business"

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Something new to add to this thread. We just got a call from an agency that needs a British native speaker to do a voice over on a radio spot. Another source of income.

PS don't email or PM about this as we have someone to do it.

I forgot to add...

I did a quick bit of modelling for an article written up in a paper here. I had to pretend to be an insomniac...a busy business guy that can't get any sleep. It wasn't a great stretch of acting to be sure! But, I got 750 pesos for 6 hours of shooting, and my haggard, tired face in the paper.

When I first arrived in Mexico, I was offered an audition for an informercial. I declined. The pay was 500 pesos and a free Buttmaster 200 for a day's shoot

MixtecaMike · Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 643 Location: Guatebad

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Gregor · Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 842 Location: Jakarta, Indonesia

In Oaxaca, I knew a couple of teachers who made some decent extra dosh on the side modelling.
I'm not exactly a Grecian-God-bodied dude, so I never considered that an option for myself. But I DID use to make about as much playing drums (jazz, latin, anything, really) in bars around town at night as I did teaching during the day.
And yes, that is illegal.