Loved this video❤️❤️

Hello everybody. I loved all of your detailed responses and sharing of personal experiences and wanted to ask you all for your advice. I'm a fresh graduate with a 4-year bachelor's degree in English Literature from Pakistan, a non-native English-speaking country. I'm on a budget and a beginner looking to teach English abroad, especially in countries like the Middle East (UAE, Qatar, Dubai) and Turkey. Should I start with a TEFL certification, or would teaching online first would be better for my career goals? Which option is more advantageous for someone like me? Additionally, could you suggest affordable TEFL providers that are best for beginners and autgentic Online English language teaching platforms? Your guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

Informative video thank you

It depend on your reason for teaching aboard .. some may just want to do this to make income moving from US to aboard

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Thank you for your insight. Your story was not discouraging, on the contrary, it was genuine and very helpful.

Blackie!!

We are Global Indigenous people!! Love and Unity is the best key for us all together!!💯 Also Giving thanks to the Great Mother's/Goddesses and Great Father's/Gods and the Ancestors and Guardians!! Saying from Snefer aka Bashiyr!!👸🏿🤴🏿

We are Global Indigenous people!! Love and Unity is the best key for us all together!!💯 Also Giving thanks to the Great Mother's/Goddesses and Great Father's/Gods and the Ancestors and Guardians!! Saying from Snefer aka Bashiyr!!👸🏿🤴🏿

I love your thought process and presentation of the information .

Ive met some black Taiwanese people.

I loved Taiwan.

Hello Nnenia It’s been long I watched your videos since Taiwan, you are doing great and am a fan

This is the exact position that I am in now. I appreciate your video and true honesty!

hey, what agency or organisation helped to get the job in china :)

Old Bay...who in this apartment is from Maryland?

Its been a while since I've seen your videos Nenia - wow - you have made such a transition. Kudos to you! Glad to see you're loving life and doing something you're so passionate for!

I hate this. 90% of the people I see that didn’t like this are always black American females. I’m black myself, let me make that clear. I watched so many of these back in 2019 when I was sure I would do a TEFLA. After reading the requirements of most countries and the $2-3k difference as a teacher of you only teach English or if you teach English in all the subjects. I saw the higher paying ones were the teaching all subjects in English, not just teaching English alone. I also noticed that almost all of these countries will put you in that higher range if you have a bachelors degree from any University in the states and are a American citizen. It would have taken me a couple years to get the TEFLA. I went to my community college and got an Associates degree, and then saw it was free in my city and state to go to the university from the community college to complete your bachelor’s. Even if I’m wanting to teach abroad. My bachelors will ensure I can look at other jobs back in the states if I choose. My TEFLA would only be good teaching abroad. But, as I said. Over and over. My sistas almost always seem to not like their TEFLA and teaching abroad the way every other sex and race often does. I’m black, but not a black female. I know the world and society regardless where you are treats us differently. I enjoyed this video, and am glad you some your truth. I will be starting my channel and uploading myself after I graduate from my university this summer with a bachelor’s in Social Science and minor in psychology. We’ll see if I keep the minor in psych and go down the requirements courses that would ensure I meet the GTEP requirements for grad school and a teaching license. If I chose to. Going abroad and teaching, being in other places other than here for a while is what seems the most exciting for me. P.S To the uploader. I would love to stay in touch and pick one another’s brains about this as we evolve here (you) and abroad. Too much stranger danger on this platform (KZbin comment section). If you read this and want to stay in touch. Become friends. Add me on instagram. I have a private profile. So I can see the request before someone creeps on my account. Can get a message too. My handle is bellgeeday P.P.S Judging by the spelling of your name. I think it’s safe to say we’re both team native Africans too. Team Eritrea-Africa here (even born in Sudan). You? 🇪🇷🙋🏾‍♂️🇺🇸

You are so beautiful!

What about your love life as a black woman?

This was really helpful! Could you walk us through how you contact and nurture the relationship (ie. initial contact, questions, topics, communication cadence etc) to it's genuine and doesn't feel vapid. Thank you!

Really resonated with everything you said! I’ve had retail experience but currently work in tech in nyc and I’ve been wanting to make the jump to fashion for a year now but it’s been tough. Where do you go about finding networking events to get in front of people? Also would love to see a video on how to navigate these networking events and how to effectively network in the fashion industry :)

Great video there are so many things i relate to thag you said keep going your soing amazing things❤

Excellent video. Shifting your focus towards your next step is the best advice.

If you are going to teach English, make sure that you have additional income from other sources also.

Such a valuable video!! thank you girl!!

I enjoy your content

How long were you in Taiwan for?

I actually did this through C.I.E.E. I would recommend watching videos such as this for C.I.E.E. AND for Green Heart Travel AND Also for Travel Bud Co. Please also be sure to ask the tough questions such as how your program's staff assists people who get injured or sick. Are things like owning and operating motorbikes allowed or will doing so disqualify you for participation in future programs. Many schools you may work at are clueless if you were ever to get into a motorbike accident. This is important since some countries like Thailand have seasons where it freakin' rains like crazy for weeks at a time. This can make it hazardous to operate a motorbike on public roads. So If you get into an accident, you may very well be ON YOUR OWN, up s**T's creek without a paddle! Also, ask questions as to whether or not negative written reviews on various reviews sites if will also disqualify you for future participation in teach abroad programs. Some organizations may put you on an unwritten so-called 'black list' for being known as a whiny troublemaker. I wrote about a negative experience about one such program and I am facing a situation where I may be on such. a black-list for writing a negative review about a program and now the program administrators will not have ANYTHING to do with me. LOL. It's unfortunate but yep, it does happen. In my case, I owned a Suzuki scooter. Not a large motorcycle, just a 150cc scooter I used to put around in. Anyone who has lived in Thailand knows that it can RAIN LIKE CRAZY during some months of the year. This was a HUGE problem for me as I actually got into. a motorcycle accident and ended up breaking one of my arms. The school I worked at actually sent one of their own staff to confirm that I was in good health. I won't go so far as to call Teaching English abroad a 'Trap, I would say to DEFINITELY be sure to ask some SERIOUS QUESTIONS of whatever program you get into. Thai people are wonderful. Health care is reasonably modern and relatively inexpensive compared to the U.S. However, some program administrators are clueless some school staff are clueless and some may argue that some program participants are clueless also, myself included such as my decision to operate a scooter on a public road just outside of one of the largest cities in the world.

Avoid countries with the awful "no fail" policy. Also avoid thailand and third world se asia.

As a 36 year old who's been working 60 hour weeks for 20 years in the US, I'm just wanting stability and peace. Therefore my wife and I are super excited for the possibility...

I could listen to you speak english to me all day 🥰

Hi, Nnenia! Although I’m encountering it three years after you posted it, I really enjoyed your talk. As someone who spent 12 years teaching English in Taiwan 1994-2006, I would echo all of your advice. My story in brief: I traveled to Taiwan at the age of 28. After college, I had sort of gotten stuck and didn’t know in which direction to go career-wise, with little obvious options having graduated with an Arts and Humanities degree. I considered law school for a while, but my heart wasn’t in it. So I decided to try my luck teaching abroad for a couple of years, with the goal of paying off my student loans then returning to the U.S. and figuring out what to do with the rest of my adulthood. As it happened, I fell in love with teaching pretty instantly. I also met my future wife, a Taiwanese English teacher. I gradually got sucked into the entire Taiwanese way of life and, with it, a new collection of personal and professional aspirations. Fast forward a bit more than a decade, and concerns like the ones you mention were mounting. I was getting too old to teach young children anymore, and the hustle and bustle of a career as a cram school teacher (this was years before stable public school jobs in Taiwan became available for English speakers) was not conducive to raising our own two children in a healthy manner. So I returned to the U.S. with my wife (Hawaii, specifically), put myself through a Secondary Education certification program at the University of Hawaii, and became a high school English teacher (though I now teach Psychology primarily…my wife is a Chinese teacher). To everyone out there considering teaching abroad for a few years, the concerns that Nnenia lists are very real and very serious! The longer you stay out of your home country, the more challenging it will be to break back into the workforce at home. And the more expensive it will be. I burned up well over 100K (USD) in Taiwan savings getting us and our possessions back into the U.S. and remaining unemployed for 18 months in order to go back to school to get certified as a high school teacher. In retrospect, if I could do it all over again, I would have completed an online teacher cert program while still working in Taiwan. But that was in the early days of online degree programs, and I wasn’t aware that it was an option. I would also suggest to those who are teaching abroad and really enjoying it but do not have bona fide teaching credentials: Get online, find an online university, and get those credentials. Then consider transitioning into international school teaching. International schools provide employment opportunities that are far more robust and stable, offer far better compensation and benefits packages, and lead to career paths that can take you pretty much anywhere in the world. And you can age comfortably as an international school teacher, which can’t be said for other types of teaching abroad such as cram school and pre-school teaching. If, on the other hand, you don’t see yourself teaching as a long-term career option, have a solid “exit plan” for when you feel the time has come. I absolutely loved my life in Taiwan and have no regrets about the twelve years I spent there (and my wife and I are considering retiring there in the future). But if I could do it all over again, I would have planned things out so that I could obtain my teaching credentials and transition into the more comfortable and ultimately more satisfying world of international school teaching…though I cannot say I have any regrets about having taken the opportunity to raise our two children in the incredible state of Hawaii, which never would have happened if I hadn’t spent a decade’s savings in the move and stayed in Taiwan instead.

Thank you sis❤

Wow, this video was so helpful. I'm in the exact same position- I'm 24 and a friend introduced the idea of doing a TEFL to travel. Loved hearing your perspective on this as someone else who doesn't have a passion for teaching or wanting to pursue it as a career. It's been such a tough decision but hearing your thoughts was so helpful. Thanks for sharing.

Good. I'm learning here with you from Brazil.

*They're obsessed with a BA!!*

These videos are fascinating, and I empathize a lot. I was “trapped” teaching for 5 years, but used the opportunity to study in my free time. Now I am doing a phd in an exciting field at the university I was teaching in. When you are just teaching it’s like staring into the abyss. I had to switch on all my survival instincts and find a way to make the future happen. My faith in Jesus was also helpful. God bless

A lot of people arent teachers and they have zero pride in it. They shouldnt be teaching at all. They buy into a really stupid way of thinking and they all want to pretend they arent teachers. "oh, I am just teaching for fun, really i am a _______" Its sad.

Please what’s the location of this apartment. I’m currently looking for an apartment. Is there any vacant studio apartment like the one in the tour?

i taught for 4.5 years in Korea. The first two schools were great. Third one not so much, it was a new private HS. I spoke during my time there with the black woman that was the english teacher the first year they were open. She said some were racist. I am white but with the attitudes of a few of them i saw what she meant. I left that school early. SOMETIMES teaching is good, but find out about the school.

Westerners can get by easily and earn much better thah local Asians. I don't know why you complained about working in Asia.

What’s the initial salary for a public school-is it a public school? Do you create your own lesson plans?

Unique window and neat view from your apartment. Seems cozy for 1-2 people.

Where you not having cpds or pds. This would help u grow in yr subject specification

Hubby speaks Chinese. 😮

awesome advice, thank you. Im going through something similar right now and to hear your experience helps so much

Gems were dropped, and seeds were planted! Your words of wisdom are always right on time, and your vulnerability and transparency are always appreciated. <3

How did your job feel about your youtube and tik tok channels?