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Q: What are some cool jobs people do post-ESL?
Being an ESL or other teacher doesn't seem like a suitable long-term job, for multiple reasons, basically boiling down to the fact that the barriers of entry are too low to make yourself a valuable and difficult-to-replace person. I'm sure there are many who have turned the field into a viable life-long profession, but I wonder where the rest of ESL teachers end up. A few ones I've read recently from Asian expat sites I frequent:
-Wall Street consultant, used connections plus presentation/multicultural skills used while doing corporate English to land a job in NYC at the height of 2008 recession
-property manager in California
-international student program manager for a university in Boston
-back to the UK to get a PGCE, then onto a full-blown international school in the Ukraine
Does anyone else know of other cool jobs people have landed as a result of their experience abroad in the education field?
10 years 40 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
Yeah back working at either Mcdonalds or Burger King! Those would be the one's that weren't qualified to begin with...who came on a whim who sought out a new life and a new civilization. Only to return home to face the truth.
And the point wasn't to knock ESL teachers, in fact I thought of this because someone I was talking to started to diss ESL teachers as "not real expats". I thought that's total BS, in fact I have met some very interesting people in this or related education fields. But I don't think it's something you want to do for the next 20-40 years (depending on your age) (or maybe it is) so I'm curious what other people have done after they "retired" from ESL teaching.
happywanderer:
Yeah the "not real expats" ;thing sounds pretty insulting. We're all expats. Well err except those that aren't....
I teach and accredit people in Australia to become properly qualified TESOL teachers (Certificate 4/Trade Certificate), as well as designing curriculum materials for Chinese schools/universities and western companies.
In between beers, of course...
xinyuren:
Traveler's back? If what I heard is true, welcome back and props to you.
Traveler:
Thank you, Xinyuren. I have spent two days in contemplation, and now recognise the supreme authority of the CCP and wumaos on expat forums. All hail the great and mighty China.
