I'll have my CELTA by the end of May and so I thought I would stay abroad and find a job teaching. The world is not lacking in such positions, and they are particularly tantalizing. Often, the hosting company or school provides airfare, room & board, plus a salary and even a week of vacation. I'd love to go to India or someplace warm and exotic and teach English. The problem is, many of the job listings require at least a year of experience and even sometimes a Bachelor's degree, but the ones seeking fresh blood still exist. If I do this under the right circumstances, I'll have a CV before I even graduate college. The downside is that I'll surely move out of Brno and go somewhere else, and so I will have a very limited time to get used to another new place - but much like learning languages - I think it gets easier the more you already know.
My second option is to go back to the US, spend a few days with a good friend in Chicago, and then return to Ithaca, NY where I could be a full time writer and editor for a magazine called Fuze. I've only just been contacted about this job, but it does seem much more like a job than an internship so I believe I will be paid. As far as housing is concerned, however, doubtless I will have to take care of all of that myself and I really don't think I can afford it.
The reason this post is worthy of being a post at all isn't because I want to brag about my options or worry publicly about which of two spectacular things I should choose - but because I feel like the choice I make is indicative of what I really want to do in life. Do I want to be a writer, or a teacher? Which am I more passionate about? Which pulls on my heart so strongly that I go blind toward issues of money or comfort? Moreover, is it possible to do both?
Why wouldn't it be possible to teach abroad while writing and editing from my laptop - very much like I'm doing now? Maybe not for Fuze, but for somewhere. People say you can't have it all - but why not - why the hell not?
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