ONE can get rich by having a varied career. If you are someone from Costa del Sol, you may be enticed to work in the hospitality industry in your country at the beach resorts there. So the first thing that you have to work on is to hone your English skills because there are a lot of English-speaking tourists in Spain. Thus, before taking up a degree in hotel and restaurant management, you decided first to pursue a degree in AB English at one of the posh universities in Madrid. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree, you still are not contented with your laurel, thus, you pursue all the stages in Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) – basic, intermediate and advanced. Each of these stages is worth an academic semester, thus you will diligently study for another 18 months after graduation. Yet the price is worth it because by this time, your desire to work in the hospitality industry has diminished.

Instead, you decide to put up an English language school of your own because a person who has successfully completed the advanced stage of TOEFL is now eligible to teach English as a second language. Earnings from the language school are okay yet you are not contented so you go abroad to teach English to others who are in need of them. There’s a lucrative market for English teachers in Thailand so you go there. You land in Phuket, literally a paradise. To those of you who do not have any idea what Phuket is, then you better rent The Beach starring Leonardo di Caprio. Leonardo’s partner there is Virginie Ledoyen. There is one scene where Virginie was dipping in the beach on a moonless night and glowing planktons illuminated her body under the water. That is not a CGI scene. The glowing planktons were real. They really exist along the coasts of Phuket and if you are in Phuket, you will not just be financially rewarded but you will experience a literal paradise. Besides, it is really financially rewarding there because Thais pay English teachers good.

Or you can go to the Philippines. There are a lot of South Koreans who go there for six months and learn English. They also pay much to these English tutors. Or you can go to Montreal. Montreal is a big city with a population of 1.6 million and all of them are speaking French. If you teach English to them or establish an English language school there, then that is another sure shot of making money. China is another country where you can explore being an English teacher. They also badly need English tutors there. While teaching English in China, you have heard that a major Hollywood production is going on in Salamanca back home in Spain. So you go there and offer your service as an English dialogue coach for the Spanish extras. Now isn’t that swell?