#1 Forget about your college degree
If you are a housewife born and raised in The United Kingdom or The United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada or South Africa it doesn’t matter if your English language is deficient or if you never read Alice in Wonderland or Shakespeare - you will be payed double or triple than everyone else just because you’re a native speaker. So basically if you are a philologist or you have master’s degree in English or any other language you can forget about it because it doesn’t matter.
#2 Racism and ageism
One wise colleague said: It’s brutal out there and white privilege is very real, and in some cases “being born in America even if you shouldn’t be teaching dogs to bark in English privilege” is also a thing. Some well experienced people who are teachers and have years of experience are getting rejected because they are not young enough or white enough.
#3 Non-native speaker = Super underpaid
At the moment I’m working as an ESL English teacher and I can only dream about having enough money to live like normal people do, even though I have classes every day with: children, beginners, advanced and intermediate students and I have an excellent reputation as a teacher.
I really hope that things will change – I don’t want to be become a millionaire but I would really like to pay my own rent and bills and use my knowledge as a source of income, that’s why I went to college after all.
Thank you for reading this,
Kindest regards!