I love working with kids, I always have. Even when I was a kid I loved working with younger kids! It seems as though most of what I want to do is teach, or nanny, so I have decided to look into some teaching jobs abroad.
I have found a couple of interesting programs such as:
Work Away - Suggested to me by a couple people. It's not just teaching jobs either, it's all kinds of jobs all over the world. It's a neat program. You don't get paid, but you do get free lodging and stuff for most of them.
Trek To Teach - This is a little different than Work Away. It's only in Nepal, you trek to the village where you will be teaching and live there until you're term is up. It costs a little over $3,000 to participate in the program.
There are many more I'm looking into, those are the two I've done the most research into at the moment.
I'm actually considering getting TEFL certified, there are some countries I can teach in with the certification that I don't need a college degree for, there's also more jobs I'll be able to get if I am certified. It's also a lot cheaper, and faster than getting a college degree of any kind. The only problem is it's apparently a bit more difficult to get certified if you are under 20 years old, as a only recent adult I'd have to wait another 2 years if I can't get it, yet... We'll see!
Of course, working with animals is also up there on my career choices...
Showing posts with label College. Show all posts
Showing posts with label College. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Why should I go to college?
This is a serious question that I've been dealing with a lot lately.
Being in my late teens everybody assumes I'm going to be in college fairly soon, and when I say I don't plan to go to college it's a shock to people! They try to argue with me, and tell me that I have to go to college. I need a serious answer here; why should I go to college? Saying that I don't know what I'd go to college for doesn't help.
If your answer is one of the following, then I don't want or need to hear it, because I've heard it before:
"To get a good job!" Define good.
"Everybody should go to college." Why?
"Well, what are you going to do, if you don't go to college?" Whatever I want!
"You don't need to know what you want to do, you can always change your major!" While wasting thousands of dollars and/or getting more and more debt to be paid off later?
"It'll be easier to get a job if you have a college degree." What kind of job? Maybe I don't want a job that requires a college degree.
My problem with going to college is that I don't know what I'd go for. I want to be a blogger, and an author, neither of which require a degree. It's a waste of my time and money going to college for something I don't really want to do. Honestly, I'm sure I'd love college! It just doesn't sound like it's worth the time/money if I'm just going to be a blogger/author anyway. If I really want to I can always go to college later.
Let's look some of the things I plan to do while my friends are in college:
Thru-hike the AT.
Have a job, other than blogging.
Write a book.
Blog.
Road trip the USA, and visit all the National Parks in the states.
The thing is, I can easily do all that, and more, in the four years that my friends will be in college.
Not wanting to college doesn't limit my life, in fact, I believe that it opens up more possibilities. By thinking outside the box, and wanting to do things that aren't considered "normal", I am making it possible to do more exciting, and interesting things with my life. How many people will wish they had taken four years to travel before going to college?
Being in my late teens everybody assumes I'm going to be in college fairly soon, and when I say I don't plan to go to college it's a shock to people! They try to argue with me, and tell me that I have to go to college. I need a serious answer here; why should I go to college? Saying that I don't know what I'd go to college for doesn't help.
If your answer is one of the following, then I don't want or need to hear it, because I've heard it before:
"To get a good job!" Define good.
"Everybody should go to college." Why?
"Well, what are you going to do, if you don't go to college?" Whatever I want!
"You don't need to know what you want to do, you can always change your major!" While wasting thousands of dollars and/or getting more and more debt to be paid off later?
"It'll be easier to get a job if you have a college degree." What kind of job? Maybe I don't want a job that requires a college degree.
My problem with going to college is that I don't know what I'd go for. I want to be a blogger, and an author, neither of which require a degree. It's a waste of my time and money going to college for something I don't really want to do. Honestly, I'm sure I'd love college! It just doesn't sound like it's worth the time/money if I'm just going to be a blogger/author anyway. If I really want to I can always go to college later.
Let's look some of the things I plan to do while my friends are in college:
Thru-hike the AT.
Have a job, other than blogging.
Write a book.
Blog.
Road trip the USA, and visit all the National Parks in the states.
The thing is, I can easily do all that, and more, in the four years that my friends will be in college.
Not wanting to college doesn't limit my life, in fact, I believe that it opens up more possibilities. By thinking outside the box, and wanting to do things that aren't considered "normal", I am making it possible to do more exciting, and interesting things with my life. How many people will wish they had taken four years to travel before going to college?
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