/lit/ - Literature

>>6364085
Be honest with yourself - and I'm asking because you mentioned the 'mundane routine' - you already have a bachelors degree, so are you pursuing grad school school because further education can get you a very specific job that you want to be involved in until retirement? If that's the case; if you want to be in a specific field of study because it's what you would honestly love to be involved in, then do everything you can to achieve that.

If you are using grad school to postpone the mundane job for a while, or because the education mill is what your parents or teachers have told you is the direction to take, or because you really have no idea what you want and are crossing your fingers that postgraduate education will bring a higher salary in something, anything, then consider getting out.

>Will you please go into more detail regarding the steps to go through with this?
Sure. The ESL route is incredibly easy. The first step you need to take, obviously, is to obtain a TEFL, TESL, TESOL, or CELTA certificate. One of these, especially combined with a Ba/Bsc, is a guaranteed job in most of Africa, most of Central and South America, and most of Asia. CELTA is the best of the four.

The second step is the hard one. You either spend a few months searching for an NGO school to accept you before leaving, or you hop on a plane and hand out CV's to international schools and NGOs when you arrive. I took the former route initially, but only because I didn't realize then how easy it was for a white face to get an ESL gig. When I finally moved to Vietnam, I flew in to HCMC, had fun with the girls and vices for a month, then handed out a few CV's for an instant job. Don't bother trying to email schools either. Put on a tie, have a shave, don't be too hungover, walk into four or five schools and ask the cute dolly girl at reception if they have vacancies. You'll usually see the owner/director straight away and be asked to start the following monday. Most schools have vacancies.

The reason it's so easy is because international schools are essentially a scam. Most schools teach English half the day and the other half in the native tongue, and a school staffed by locals trying to teach English is less prestigious and cheaper than one with white faces. The school owners love changing the name from 'Mr. Chang's school' to 'Mr. Chang's international school', hiring westerners and quadrupling the tuition fee's. Couple this with the concept of 'face', where the parents of international schools kids sneer at ones with local school kids, then add the fact that the first question any parent asks before choosing a school is "do you have white teachers," and it creates a market where demand for white teachers is extremely high, and a job for you is extremely easy to get.

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