People have been asking me all year what I’m going to do when I graduate. The official end of exam week Feb 22, so it’s coming up pretty soon. Well, I am hear to answer that question once and for all.
I have enrolled in a program to train me to become a TEFL teacher. TEFL is Teaching English as a Foreign Language. The program, which is in Prague, lasts one month, starting March 19. Afterwards, I will get a job teaching English somewhere, hopefully. I obviously have some preferences, but it will depend heavily on where I can land a job. There is a lot of demand in Asia and Eastern Europe, so I might end up there. Western Europe is difficult because most countries want EU citizens.
Most TEFL teachers make enough to support themselves and maybe save a little. I’m certainly not doing it for the money as I got job offers with much better pay than I would ever get as a teacher, even in the US.
After the year abroad, I plan to go to grad school, hopefully in robotics with a specialty in autonomous vehicles. I know you are thinking that I should have applied for grad school for this upcoming year, but I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do yet. Autonomous vehicles is something I have always been interested in, but I was really leaning towards alternative energy in the fall. I couldn’t find any programs in alternative energy that I liked, and I was unable to land a job that had any kind of interest to me. I don’t want to be a corporate monkey.
Here’s a link to the program I am doing: http://www.teflworldwideprague.com/
I will, of course, document my adventures here on Shouzer, and I will take solace in know that I will be done with that program before any of you graduate.
kyle
February 6, 2007
wow that sounds awesome, scott. have you ever been overseas?
lorraine is getting her tefl certificate too. she did a program in vietnam two summers ago where she taught english, she loved it.