What do you think of this career choice - unique?

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<p>This may be unique, but I've really been putting a lot of thought into what I'd like to do with my life lately, and I've come up with a few facts about myself:</p>

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<li>I love learning about other cultures, and learning new languages</li>
<li>I love teaching, especially kids (I work part-time as an academic instructor, yet I just turned 19)</li>
<li>I love to travel</li>
<li>I love to meet people from all over the world</li>
<li>I love to help people</li>
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<p>These are facts about me that have always been true, and that will probably never change. That being said, the career choice that interests me most is to be a TEFL (Teaching english as a foreign language) teacher across the globe. I would love to graduate college with my TEFL certificate and jump right into teaching - jobs for English instructors are in high demand around the world. I am learning Russian and Spanish, and will likely be proficient if not fluent in both by the time I graduate college, and I really want to teach English in Russia for a few years after I graduate. After that, I will go wherever my heart takes me.
That being said, is this a good career choice, in your opinion? Basically, would I be making a big error that I am unaware of if I do this? I know the pay is not always great, but I would definitely not be doing it for the money. Not at all. I would be simply following my heart, something that I think most people should do.
So tell me, what do you think of this career choice? Be honest.</p>

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<p>I really don’t think it’s ‘unique’ at all. Google ‘Dave’s ESL Cafe’, there are tons of job postings for ‘Teaching English Abroad’, and LOTS of people spend their entire career doing this. In many cases, they pay the equivalent of $40k+ a year, plenty to live on. </p>

<p>I think it’s a perfectly fine choice. Lots of people spend 10-20 years doing this, and enjoy their lives. And if you ever get tired of living abroad, but still like teaching, you can come home, get certified, and spend the rest of your career teaching in the U.S. </p>

<p>So yeah, go for it. If you don’t mind the loneliness that can come with living abroad, you’ll probably be happier on a ‘day to day, 9 to 5’ basis than someone sitting in a cubicle job that they find boring.</p>