Quote: (12-04-2017 07:57 AM)Road_Less_Taken Wrote:
Quote: (12-04-2017 07:23 AM)WomenLuvDeez Wrote:
I got a job in south america earlier this year using just my native language since I have no accent and all. If you are a native english speaker and not a Colombian you can pretty much get a english teaching job if you just make one simple post onto a FB group. Pay is better than native colombian teachers here. Also its quite easy to get into netflix series or movies here. They need gringos or people who look the part for them and in certain cities its hard to come by gringos.
I think the bigger issue is the pay. Sure they pay more but salaries are still brutal in basically all of South America. Its not a horrible idea of something to do when your in your early 20's for a year (as an experience), but when you get older you either need to be teaching in a top international school or be working in a more lucrative market, ie China or the Sandpit.
Sure you can get by but the second you have unexpected costs it eats into your savings or worse.
That pretty much sums it up.
There's no shortage of people around the world who think that non-locals should be thrilled to accept the pay-rates available in their country just for the honor of working there.
They assume that since the entry level pay for ESL positions are higher than a typical local salary, it must be a great deal.
False.
When you combine the crime and corruption, the low quality housing options and other unpleasantness, economically speaking, most Westerners would be far better of staying in their own country and working at Burger King.
If you have zero or limited ESL experience and just want to earn some money to support yourself during a period of shoestring travel, it's not a bad option, but it isn't a serious career opportunity. By working jobs like that, you are basically sentencing yourself to have no choice but to accept absolute poverty if you end up retiring in your home country and barely anything better if you were to settle in a South American country.
Keep in mind that it's not cheap to fly home to see family wherever you are from and your income will hardly make it possible to afford to do so, let alone save enough for retirement to compensate for a future with continual inflation on some level.
No matter how qualified you are, the locals will view you with contempt for expecting an income level that offers a lifestyle comparable to what you'd be able to achieve in your home country. They consider living on $25K per year in a fairly expensive city "rich" even if it means that you can see your own family more than once every two years.
They'll also be more than happy to use
gringo or whatever pejorative term they prefer to refer to you, which will come attached to the assumption that your only qualification is your native language skills and skin tone and you should shut the fuck up about earning a livable income, because your job isn't even work in their mind.