by penisjokeforaname » Sun May 04, 2014 9:45 pm
Look around, there's probably a school or two that will take an English teacher on a really crap wage in the provinces if you ask. Whatever you do, re-evaluate your life in 6 months and always have enough in the bank to fly home.
Note the TEFL will look awful on your resume. You're young enough they won't cry sex tourist but they will think you were unable or unwilling to find work back home and may imagine you went on a SE Asian drug binge.
I spent one year in a liberal arts degree and then left for a much more profitable sector, and obtained a degree a little later.
I don't know what you were thinking with history, but the world generally evolves:
Entrepreneurs, with or without a degree, can strike it very rich, or will stay small for decades, or go bust in year one. Risk and reward.
Science and Technology degree holders often have a moderately higher income, but without the great highs and lows of riskier entrepreneurial careers.
And you; Liberal Arts degree holders are taking a smaller risk than entrepreneurs but are dependent on proven results at jobs more than their degree. You were supposed to use your studies to befriend influential people who can suggest you jobs, or are at least aware of your existence. There's probably a whole society of concerned liberals at your college who have met someone who knows someone to do with aid work in Cambodia.
Look around, there's probably a school or two that will take an English teacher on a really crap wage in the provinces if you ask. Whatever you do, re-evaluate your life in 6 months and always have enough in the bank to fly home.
Note the TEFL will look awful on your resume. You're young enough they won't cry sex tourist but they will think you were unable or unwilling to find work back home and may imagine you went on a SE Asian drug binge.
I spent one year in a liberal arts degree and then left for a much more profitable sector, and obtained a degree a little later.
I don't know what you were thinking with history, but the world generally evolves:
Entrepreneurs, with or without a degree, can strike it very rich, or will stay small for decades, or go bust in year one. Risk and reward.
Science and Technology degree holders often have a moderately higher income, but without the great highs and lows of riskier entrepreneurial careers.
And you; Liberal Arts degree holders are taking a smaller risk than entrepreneurs but are dependent on proven results at jobs more than their degree. You were supposed to use your studies to befriend influential people who can suggest you jobs, or are at least aware of your existence. There's probably a whole society of concerned liberals at your college who have met someone who knows someone to do with aid work in Cambodia.