I’m not sure, but it seems like voting, because this month i had two surprise hits in Travel that got ~200 votes each and now Travel tallies almost 800 monthly users, much higher than before.
Since we’re well past the first of the month, i was thinking it’s a running tally of the last 30 days of community engagement(votes) in a community.
That’s great, let the notion simmer. I heard about teaching overseas multiple times before the right opportunity struck at the right time.
Teaching English is such a quick, comfortable route out of the US rat race, and travel is a wonderful way to build curiosity, respect and tolerance.
I worked with a 67 year old English teacher in Beijing, so with a teenage son, you’re probably well within the comfortable age range for English teachers. With 2 billion English students, they aren’t saying no to many native speakers.
You can always start with an hour or two a week on an online platform too, if traveling isn’t in the cards right now.
Thanks for reaching out, someone else from the US I’ve been talking to just let me know twenty minutes ago they’re moving to Portugal with their wife! I hope these posts stay useful, and I’ll be here to offer advice and encouragement as long as I’m able.
If you or your teenager have any questions about travel now or later, let me know!
Thanks, it was definitely the pivot I needed at the time. I recorded a podcast episode with the full story, retelling it makes me laugh every time.
I was on CL looking for an N64 controller and this drunk guy posted an ad for an English teacher in Beijing in the for sale part of craigslist.
I thought that misplaced ad was funny, applied, got the job and flapped over to Beijing to teach.
Rocked. made more than in the states working less than half as much ($2500 USD/month for 9-20 teaching hours a week), cost of living was insignificant, great food, learned mandarin, started traveling and never stopped, and a lot more!
I’m building up Travel right now; it’s good because it’s all real travel stories and information.
Feel free to browse or post, any travel questions or discussions are welcome and you would be the first not-me posting!
Oh dang, thanks for the tip. Yea, I’m good with a tower. Or honestly, peering from my bus window, haha, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at their satellite images.
You really got around the country. Did you take tours or drive around yourselves?
Oh man, Peru has so much great archaeology i completely blanked on the Nazca lines being here.
Great timing on the post, thanks! I’ll be driving by Nazca in a few days.
While you look for another WFH IT job, you can always teach English as a stopgap.
Teaching is remote, no qualifications except speaking English, dozens of platforms, 2 billion students, make your own schedule, max cert is a 1-2 week pdf course that increases pay.
Guaranteed income if you want to give yourself some breathing room to figure out your next step.
lmk if you want more info and best of luck with your next step.
Thanks, I hadn’t realized it had become so commonplace.
Thanks, I’m familiar with how liquid bandages work(TIL thread about their military origins) and unhappily familiar with necrotizing fasciitis, I’m more curious about the commercial availability of liquid bandages as I hadn’t realized they were common in pharmacies yet.
Glad to hear it worked out so well for you! Thanks for the testimony, I’ve heard super glue prevents scars but yours is the first personal confirmation, very cool.
Gotcha thanks.
I went to a dentist once in Utah who was super cool and we talked for a while and when he was finishing up refitting a crown he was like look I’m definitely not supposed to say this, but if you don’t want to pay a hundred bucks to refit a crown or you’re not near a dentist office, you can absolutely use super glue.
And I was like “is that not toxic?”
And he shrugged and was like “I mean a little but not much.”
I’m more interested in trying it out as a topical bandage.
Got it, I asked because I travel a lot and suspected the chemicals might not do great in varying climates or drastic elevation changes.
Still cool, are they pretty common in pharmacies these days? and super expensive or not too crazy?
Are liquid bandages fairly common in pharmacies now?
They sound convenient.
Are they much pricier than a box of bandaids?
What is their shelf life/storage conditions like?
ESL Teacher:
Only requirement: English speaker
Guaranteed job
Remote or in-person
$10-100 USD per hour
Travel the world if you want
Stay at home if you don’t
Minimal to zero prep
Personally rewarding
As fun as you make it
Easy workday
Make your own schedule
20-30 hr average workweek
Respected occupation
I paid for an email service to step back from google and the services were so disappointing after a couple years and never improved that i couldn’t justify the admittedly low cost and went back to freemails.
Mushrooms of magic.
Nontoxic, non-addictive, mind-broadening, easy to safely dose and for me and my fellow psilocybinauts, a very comforting, mother-earthy, wavy high.
I take them very rarely, as in less than once every couple of years, but they are my favorite altered experience by far.
Pretty accepting.
None of the posts I’ve seen from outside the americas and Europe are treated differently than the American and European posts
Perhaps less engagement due to a smaller relevant audience, which you’ll also see with posts from many niche American and European communities.
For sure!
I named the com after my username but recently realized that I never wanted a blog, I want a welcoming and active Travel community!
Hey, yup!
I’ve been traveling for 15 years in 30 countries and most people are very receptive to respectful American tourists, especially if you take an interest in the culture and learn the standard greeting. They love it if you like the food, which i am very good at!
Everyone asks where I’m from, and nobody is upset when I tell them the US.
In vietnam, they love it because they kicked our ass in the war.