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Mateja
Joined: 12 Mar 2007
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Location: Mexico
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 Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 2:33 am Post subject: JOBS IN OAXACA CITY |
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I�ve lived in Mexico for almost 5 years, mainly in Mexico DF. Meanwhile I got ICELT certificate and FCA, getting ready for CAE now. I�ve worked in IH Mexico and in a private bilingual school.
My husband is really 100%bilingual teacher and also a simultaneous interpreter translator. We would love to move with our baby to Oaxaca City.
Any ideas, what schools are there, what options do we have?
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tideout
Joined: 05 Feb 2011
Posts: 213
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 6:16 am Post subject: Re: JOBS IN OAXACA CITY |
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| Mateja wrote: |
I�ve lived in Mexico for almost 5 years, mainly in Mexico DF. Meanwhile I got ICELT certificate and FCA, getting ready for CAE now. I�ve worked in IH Mexico and in a private bilingual school.
My husband is really 100%bilingual teacher and also a simultaneous interpreter translator. We would love to move with our baby to Oaxaca City.
Any ideas, what schools are there, what options do we have?
Thx in advance |
My information is old now but I think Oaxaca is more limited than it may appear. A couple of the universities there can be quite dysfunctional - UABPO in particular. URSE was essentially downsizing its staff a year ago and what's left was small core of long timers. The local schools will probably only pay 65-70 pesos /hour. Rent is proportionally high as you will pay for the "wow" factor of being in Oaxaca.
While I like Oaxaca, I think it's quite overpriced and overrated in many ways. Frankly, I think a lot of people come in and find it's difficult to live there. Schools and those renting take advantage of this dynamic in their own ways. Some of the people "making it" there have either been there a very long time or have income/support coming in from outside of Mexico. I've heard immigration has improved in Oaxaca but it was a notoriously difficult office to deal with. |
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MotherF
Joined: 07 Jun 2010
Posts: 1450
Location: 17�48'N 97�46'W
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As tideout said, the city can be a hard place to make it as an English teacher. Especially if you are a non-native, because there are so many native speakers who love living in Oaxaca and seem to be able to afford to work part time, at least for a few month anyway, in exchange for the previlidge of working there. There are a few ritzy colegios, you can find them by searching on pages like http://eduportal.com.mx/
While some rents can be very expensive in Oaxaca, there are cheap place too, but they are usually out of site from non-locals so can be very hard for transplants, even Mexican transplants, to find. |
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