I'm able to, but it would most likely involve working as an English teacher. I don't have anyone I'd be leaving behind. I've tried to look into other careers and options, but it seems like because of my background, credentials, and that I'm a white American the most probable career path I'd be pushed into would be some kind of English teacher in a rural mountain town. Now there's nothing necessarily wrong with that. That can be a fulfilling job and everything, but it's just not what I want to do with my life. I'm incredibly lazy and not career focused at all, so I doubt I'd have the stamina to find anything else. Rural English teacher is easy to snag as a job there from what I know.
I've visited China and it's nice there, but it's nice around the cities which seem to be more amenable to people who don't speak the language well and aren't fully up on the culture. The cities are navigable like anywhere else, they're cheaper than they west to live in, and there's plenty to see and do. I feel like I'd be completely lost out in the countryside.
Also I'm told getting full citizenship is an incredible ordeal for foreigners. Like a lot of countries I'm told they favor applicants with lots of experience in stuff like technology or medicine or science, and that ain't really me either.
I have a certification to administer TOEFL tests and every few years they'll send me a letter or an email asking me if I'd want to sign up for a job. Guy on the phone has offered me teaching positions way out in the mountains, but that was years ago and times might be different now, yeah
Sure they do. You can get a job almost everywhere. Every school needs an English teacher.
It's just that Americans don't like living anywhere but the huge cities, because that's where they can get drugs and go see bands and attend art exhibitions.
I'm able to, but it would most likely involve working as an English teacher. I don't have anyone I'd be leaving behind. I've tried to look into other careers and options, but it seems like because of my background, credentials, and that I'm a white American the most probable career path I'd be pushed into would be some kind of English teacher in a rural mountain town. Now there's nothing necessarily wrong with that. That can be a fulfilling job and everything, but it's just not what I want to do with my life. I'm incredibly lazy and not career focused at all, so I doubt I'd have the stamina to find anything else. Rural English teacher is easy to snag as a job there from what I know.
I've visited China and it's nice there, but it's nice around the cities which seem to be more amenable to people who don't speak the language well and aren't fully up on the culture. The cities are navigable like anywhere else, they're cheaper than they west to live in, and there's plenty to see and do. I feel like I'd be completely lost out in the countryside.
Also I'm told getting full citizenship is an incredible ordeal for foreigners. Like a lot of countries I'm told they favor applicants with lots of experience in stuff like technology or medicine or science, and that ain't really me either.
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I have a certification to administer TOEFL tests and every few years they'll send me a letter or an email asking me if I'd want to sign up for a job. Guy on the phone has offered me teaching positions way out in the mountains, but that was years ago and times might be different now, yeah
Sure they do. You can get a job almost everywhere. Every school needs an English teacher.
It's just that Americans don't like living anywhere but the huge cities, because that's where they can get drugs and go see bands and attend art exhibitions.