TESL
I've been thinking recently (yeah, yeah, I *know*!).....
I *really* enjoy teaching English (cute Japanese girls, or no). Apparently I'm pretty good at it. Shuji and Mayoko (guy and gal wot supervise the Clubhouse) tell me that people are very positive about me as an English-teacher.
So I've decided I want a Teach English as a Second Language (TESL) qualification. Ye may have heard of TEFL (Teach English as a Foreign Language), or TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). These are all fairly equivalent, and internationally recognised.
The plan is....
School til May of next year. *Somehow* save money.
Take TESL course for the month of June (full-time).
Have qualification.
The course is about $1300 (so about E900), and if I book it through Clubhouse there is a 13% discount. That gives me 7 months.
I was intending to put $60 a month onto my credit card (that's currently maxed out..... stoopid credit cards). That's not going to work.
I need to put about $170 or so, per month, onto that credit card. Which.... well, I'm not entirely sure if its doable.
Then again, there's no rush: the course runs monthly, every month, so I could do it in August, which would mean $130 a month, which is significantly more doable.
Given that I may not have a job this weekend, that could still be a problem, but we'll wait and see on that score. Worst case scenario: I use a chunk of my student loan in January to fund the TESL.
This is something I *really* want.
This is a backup plan (should the whole degree notion get flushed). :P