Yeah I reckon it's worth doing it all now before it's too late because I'm either dead or stuck with a house, mortgage, car, kids etc. That all sounds horrible. I'm 27 already and don't even want to consider that shit. You taught English abroad, right Mailmonkey? I still can't make my mind up about that, being able to work anywhere in the world sounds good but the job it's self sounds totally pish and I'd be rubbish at it.
lol, yeah, the job is pish, specially if, like you you've got no qualifications, or like me at the time you're only 19.
You probably will be rubbish at it too, I certainly was for the first 3 years....but a lot of the schools don't care, the small private schools just want a native English speaker to stand in fronnt of the class.
Once you've taught a couple of years, you realise what it#'s all about, and it comes fairly easily, as long as you got half a brain, which you obviously have.. after 3 years I was senior teacher somewhere in Poland, lol, at age 22.
Without qualification (CELTA/Cert TESOL at least) you'll struggle to organise a job from the UK which will pay airfare etc, but once you're in the country you'll def be able to go round schools and pick something up. And once you got experience in one place and a reference it'll just get easier and easier....
The work ain't too bad, you'll probably have evening classes, as the private schools survive on adults who are in work and wanting to improve their English for career development, or in order to come to UK to study....my first jobs were almost always teaching from 5-9ish 3-4 evenings a week, and maybe a full day 9-3, on sat or sun, you should be able to blag accommodation too....
Anyway, the hours of work meant I was easily able to spend most my time geting pissed, taking drugs, and trying to shag as much as possible, surface sometime in the afternoon, get me head straight, go and teach 5-9, then off again on the lash.
In the end I came back to UK for good in me late 20's, did a higher qualification, and spent a few years in a respectable college, was head of school for a bit...so the whole TEFL thing was not only good for me as a 20sthg caner, but actually gave me a leg up into a decent career...which I could still be doing if I wanted to......
It doesn't suit everyone, and the shitter schools don't pay a great deal, the accommodation they provide is usaually shared and not great either, BUT, it's being peid to be out there, AND it is free accommodation....you won't save a load of money, unless you go Japan, Middle East, maybe Aus, but you won't be geting them jobs with no qualifications or experience.....
See it as a means to an end.
