Would you like to work from the comfort of your own home, live anywhere in the world you choose (as long as there is internet), and be your own boss?
If this kind of lifestyle sounds interesting, listen up!
Be a part of a $150 Billion industry
Teaching English as a foreign language, otherwise known as TEFL, is an incredible opportunity to escape the rat race.
TEFL, allows you to make money teaching English online from home or get paid while taking a vacation and traveling the world.
Why is demand for TEFL so great and why is teaching English an $150 billion industry?
One word. China.
China has over 1 billion people, and that number is still growing.
Presently, there are over 500 million English students in China alone, and that’s just scratching the surface. China needs many more English teachers.
Plus, there are an estimated 25 million students that want to learn English in Japan and South Korea. There are also students in other countries in Africa, Asia, South America, and Eastern Europe that want to learn English.
According to a recent British Council Estimate, there are an estimated 1 billion students worldwide who want to learn English, but don’t have access to an English teacher that can teach them.
Thanks to the power of the internet and applications like Skype, students that want to learn English don’t need a teacher in their neighborhood, town, or city to learn the language. They just need more teachers that are willing to teach English.
High demand for English teachers creates an extraordinary opportunity
As the world population continues to grow, and we are becoming more interconnected, the demand for English teachers is soaring like never before.
You see, English is considered a “lingua franca” – a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native language is different.
If you want to see this in real life, visit Dubai where many different languages can be heard on a daily basis.
There are expats from all over the world that make Dubai there home, and English is the lingua franca that allows them to communicate with one another.
English is also the global language of business. Because of this, learning English is a high priority.
If English is your native language, you’re in luck.
There are millions of college graduates that are having difficulty finding a job in their field. Many of them end up performing customer service jobs – answering phones, waiting tables, driving for Uber.
This sucks, but this is their lot in life until something better comes along.
Until something better comes along, what if university graduates taught English online in their spare time?
The market for English teachers is not just ripe for young university graduates, its also an opportunity for people who are retired, semi-retired, or planning for retirement.
Teach English to make money during retirement
The pay you will receive from teaching English to foreign language students won’t make you rich. However, if you live in a low-cost country (Belize, Colombia, Malaysia, or Thailand), the pay you can receive from teaching English will be more than enough to cover your living expenses.
Here are countries where $200,000 in retirement savings will last 30 years.
Aside from your social security benefit, the money you can earn from teaching English is an extra bonus for your retirement lifestyle. For example, you can use the extra money to splurge on purchases or pay for trips back to the United States.
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Teaching English as a foreign language can be done online from the comfort of your own home or you can actually live in one of the countries where English is in strong demand.
If teaching English abroad sounds more fun (getting paid to teach in countries like Spain, Costa Rica or Thailand) then you will want to visit this Facebook Page to receive the latest details about salaries, hiring seasons, degree requirements, and visas, etc.
If you have a university degree (could be in anything) and TEFL is something you’re interested, the first step is to become TEFL certified. There are lots of places that offer TEFL certification, but some are known for having some very unscrupulous practices.
Teaching English offers hundreds of thousands of opportunities for English speakers to make money, live, work, and travel overseas.