Re: OT: Waa-a-a-ay OT: Teaching English abroad.

1. Are you going to get a cert?
2. Are you intending to a) go backpacking / wandering and not spending
too long in one place, or are you intending to b) dig in somewhere for
at least some months and get a "real" job?
- if a) then you are basically going to be doing under-the-table work
most likely, advertising at coffee shops or the like. Beware of visa
restrictions and how strict the local cops are about it
- if b) then you'll probably need a cert to get a job anywhere where
there's competition. If there isn't, then the fact that you're a
native English speaker with some amount of brains should be enough.
3. Consider the JET programme and its Chinese and Korean analogues. Google it.
4. Realize that English teaching in most places doesn't pay much more
than enough to live; the richer places are also more competitive. E.g.
salaries for full-time TESL in Japan are USD$20-30k, maybe (!) more
with experience & credentials. Significantly less in poorer countries,
but the cost of living is also less.... but as a traveler, you're
going to need to be saving for more expensive places too.
5. Where exactly will you be going, at what level of expense, for how
long, and for how long in any particular place?

<-- has been considering similar plans, just got some more vaccinations :-)

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