expensive, but not impossible. He's a Russian Orthodox living in America looking for Russian Orthodox partners, it's just an uphill battle.Vubaria wrote:Kubra wrote: expat ESL teachers in Russia pay their own visa fees.
Well, that makes it even more expensive.Kubra wrote: Bribery is, well, it's a fact of life in a lot of places. No choice but to grease them gears best, and that's on the applicant to do. Proper euro countries def don't have the same needs for ESL teaching, but that's more to do with their presence in the linguistic pool of continental Europe and the free movement of labour making it much easier for Englishmen to get into a then flooded market. And that aside, he ain't in stem afaik, ESL and straight up enlisting are his only options of he wants an in.
SK and Japan pay infinitely better by comparison tho.
It's not necessarily no qualification, a post-grad TEFL diploma isn't the hardest bit of schooling around and gives one a huge leg up on competition.
TEFL can help but I hope he's happy doing nothing else for the rest of his life. Employers do not look kindly on time spent doing it, unless you want to teach English.
Ah, well, doing the same thing for the rest of your life is the mark of adulthood. He could technically progress up the levels of English education, tho it's a bit difficult without an actual education degree. Doable without a master's or PhD, though not necessarily desirable
But hey, could be worse, could be getting a master's or PhD am I right