I'm Good at English — What Jobs Can I Have?

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RealLife English


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All right guys! Can I get you to  moving closer, please? All right,  
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so this is what you've all been waiting for,  
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the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. Wait-- Thiago,  please, don't touch that! Please, don't touch it!
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What's up RealLifers! I'm here in front  of this super cool act volcano. Have you  
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ever been to a volcano? If not, you  should totally come here. Oh my god! 
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Okay, how can I help you? Sorry, sorry, do you speak English? 
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Oh yes, I do. Do you have  available rooms here for tonight? 
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Yeah, we do have a couple rooms  available. Is it just for the two of you? 
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Yes, yes, just the two of us. Fantastic so enjoy your stay at RealLife Hostel.
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Hey what's up? So we here at RealLife English  truly believe that being a confident and natural  
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English speaker can literally change your life.  For example, it could open up a whole new career  
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path for you. So in today's lesson we are going  to be looking at 10 possible future jobs that you  
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could have as a fluent English speaker. But before  we do if you're new here, well every week we make  
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lessons just like this one that help you to go  from being a lost and insecure English learner, to  
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being a confident and successful English speaker.  If that sounds like something that you would like  
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for your English, then why don't you join our  community of over 300 000 RealLifers from around  
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the world who are doing just that by hitting  that subscribe button and the bell down below.
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So you probably already know that English  is the global language. And this is amazing  
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because if you become a fluent English speaker,  it opens up all sorts of opportunities for you  
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basically anywhere in the world. Just imagine  you could be working in a job with people from  
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many different countries. And nowadays since  the pandemic, it's become more common than  
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ever to be able to work remotely online with  people from all over the world. Just like we  
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do here at RealLife English. And so we'll be  looking at some jobs that you can do online and  
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other ones that maybe you can find in your city  or by traveling abroad. And finally it's probably  
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something that you already have on your mind,  it can be a huge benefit to be making money in  
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another currency, like the Dollar, the Euro or  the Pound. So let's get started with our list.  
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First up you could become a tour guide and this  is a perfect job if you love things like History  
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Art or culture. And nowadays it's become easier  than ever with different services like AirBnb  
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Experiences. You could even get started just  giving a tour in your city for free volunteering  
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so that you can get a little bit of experience  and oftentimes with these kind of tours (I know  
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at least here in Barcelona) they offer some of  these and they're completely based on tips. So  
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if you do a really good job, if you go above and  beyond, then people are going to want to give you  
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money. Even though you're just volunteering to  start out with. And many fluent English speakers  
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gravitate towards the tourism industry, so this  could be a great place for you to get started,  
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if that includes you. And you could maybe start  out with this in your own city and then even look  
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for opportunities abroad, so it could be a great  way for you to get some traveling experience.  
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And continuing in tourism you could work in the  hospitality industry. You could of course become  
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a restauranteer, you could be someone who works as  a waiter or a busboy or bus girl in a restaurant.  
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That's the person who cleans up the plates after  people are finished eating. A really great thing  
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if you're able to do this in a country like the  United States is you would even get tips again.  
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But if you live in a big city it can be even  just great to look for restaurants that are in  
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more touristic areas and, you know, maybe the pay  isn't that great, but you're really looking for  
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that experience to start developing your English  with people who are traveling so that you're using  
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your English out there in the real world. You're  gaining some more confidence with your speaking.  
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And, of course, you could also be working in  a hotel or in a hostel as a receptionist and  
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this gives you tons of opportunities to meet  people from around the world. And actually I  
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have some friends who have incredible English  speaking and guess where they got their start.  
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They worked as a receptionist in a hostel and  this even allowed them to meet travelers and  
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to even make some friends that they have until  this day. Something else that you could do is  
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organizing events, which is something that we used  to do at RealLife English. We would have these  
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really great big English parties where, you know,  we'd be in Brazil or here in Barcelona and a bunch  
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of locals get together and speak English with  some drinks. It's really fun. So, I used to love  
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going to other events too here in Barcelona. This  would be a great thing to look for for improving  
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your English in your city. But even if you don't  have these in your city, then why don't you be  
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the person who organizes it? Even if it's just  a few people getting together to have some fun  
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speaking English, it can be a really great way  to make connections and, again, you're getting  
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some valuable experience that you could then use  to apply to a future job. Or maybe you're already  
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working in a multinational company but you just  have not had many opportunities yet to use your  
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English in your job. If this is the case, then I  highly recommend that you have a conversation with  
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your boss and you tell him or her that you would  be really open to any opportunities like this  
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where you could use your English. So this might look like traveling  
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which can be really great because, you know,  a lot of people have families, they don't want  
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to be away from them, so if you show that you're  interested in this, maybe because you're younger,  
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or you're single, or your partner is really  open to that, then maybe those opportunities  
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can pop up and they will think of you and  send you on that plane to that other place.  
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Some of these don't even have to necessarily be  that you're going for a meeting or something like  
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that. A lot of times companies will promote their  employees going abroad for different learning  
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experiences, so maybe it could be attending a  conference at your company's headquarters or  
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something like that. So I highly recommend  that you look into if your company offers  
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any benefits like this or even if your company  is offering these kind of opportunities digitally  
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to attend some sort of webinar or digital event. I  highly recommend again that you jump on it because  
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getting this kind of experience will give you the  skills that you need then to be considered for  
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future opportunities. And it can just look  great on your resume that you've attended  
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these kind of things. Eventually maybe even  you can apply for a job in another country,  
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so if that's something you have as an objective  in your life, then make sure that you're taking  
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advantage of any opportunities that you  already have where you are right now. And,  
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you know, depending what career you're in or what  you're studying, what you studied at university,  
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you can find so many opportunities to be  working remotely. Especially since the pandemic,  
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lots of companies are going online, they're  finding that it's much easier to find talent  
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from anywhere in the world than just limiting  themselves to the city where they are physically  
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located. So you should definitely consider  looking into this if it's something that you're  
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interested in. And again it's just great for  getting that experience of working with people  
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from other countries and using your English  in the workplace. There are tons of different  
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ways that you can do this. Obviously you can be  directly hired by a company to work for them,  
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but you could also be a freelancer who works  with different companies or entrepreneurs.  
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So if you have some sort of skill that could  really help other people, then you might want  
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to check out some websites like Upwork or Fiverr  where you can display these skills. And you can  
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already be getting paid for doing those things.  If you get enough clients maybe they'll even  
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give you the opportunity to travel abroad or to do  other things that you're really passionate about.  
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And if you have really fluent English, one of  these potential jobs could be being a translator.  
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You could get hired by a company to do this. You know, people always need to translate  
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documents and websites and things like this into  English and a lot of times they will even have  
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a person on their team who does that. You could  start your own translation business and work with  
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different companies, or work as a freelancer with  people who are just working on projects that need  
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to be translated. If you get really good at this,  then you could even specialize in it, you know,  
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get some sort of certification and even become a  live interpreter. Just imagine being at some sort  
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of event where you're listening and you're having  to translate as it's going. It would be pretty  
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exciting, right? You know, if you are looking  for job opportunities, one of the most priceless  
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things that you can have is a really stellar  network of different people, so you obviously  
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want to build the people that you have connections  with on Linkedin and one great way for you to meet  
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people from around the world is with the RealLife  App. Because this is the only place where you can  
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download it, log in press a button and instantly  be connected to another English speaker in  
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another part of the world. So just imagine all the  different people that you can meet with these fun  
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and dynamic conversations. Snd who knows  what opportunities it might bring you?  
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It can be a really great way for you to start  practicing your English which is exactly what  
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you're going to need to do if you actually land  any of the jobs that we're talking about today.  
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So I highly recommend that you give it  a try, get out of your comfort zone,  
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try something new. You can download it now  by clicking up here or down the description  
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box below, or you can just look for RealLife  English in the Apple App or Google Play Store.
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Okay so maybe you don't have so much confidence  when it comes to speaking yet, but you're a really  
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great English listener, so if this is the case,  have no fear. There are still opportunities for  
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you. You could become a transcriber. Now if  you've never done this before, you definitely  
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are going to want to get some practice, because it  requires really fast typing, but once you get the  
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hang of it, then this can bring you all sorts of  opportunities. You can connect with people online  
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on websites like I mentioned earlier like Upwork  or Fiverr. And this could open up a whole new  
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job for you. You could even become an entrepreneur  having your own transcribing business.  
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Now I'm a bit biased but I think this is  definitely one of the coolest options that we have  
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here on the list today. So I'm not sure if you've  been following us for very long, but if you have,  
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then you might know that over on our Learn English  with TV Series channel, I used to actually film  
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videos on my old iPhone. It wasn't even this one,  it was a much worse one. And so you having a phone  
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nowadays gives you so much power, because you can  become a content creator, so lots of businesses  
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hire people to create content for their social  media or for blogs. You could even just create  
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your own content. Maybe it could be around English  learning or something else that you're skilled  
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or passionate about. A lot of people nowadays can  make a whole career out of becoming an influencer.  
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Or maybe you're really into travel and if you're  having some plans to backpack around Europe,  
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for example, you could actually document the whole  thing on your phone and trying to do it in a high  
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quality way and then you can actually take all  these adventures that you're having and turn  
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it into tips for other people. So you can be a  travel vlogger or a travel blogger, if you prefer  
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writing. And even just doing this as a hobby just  for yourself or maybe for your friends or maybe to  
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connect to a few close fans. Then this can be  a really great way to practice your English by  
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recording yourself and watching yourself. Trust  me, when I first started out doing this I felt  
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super awkward seeing myself on camera, hearing  my voice but you get used to it and it's a really  
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great way to build your confidence to identify  different mistakes you're making and to improve  
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your English a ton. Maybe you're like me  and you have an entrepreneurial spirit,  
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you want to start your own business or perhaps  you already have started your own business.  
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Knowing English and being fluent can help you  to expand your operations to other countries.
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Really if you don't know English, it's  really difficult to do that, you know.  
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You can start doing marketing in English, so  that people from other countries can discover  
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what you're up to. Or maybe you're a more creative  type, maybe you're an artist of some sort. So  
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many famous actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Penelope Cruz, Sofia Vergara would not be where  
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they are today if they didn't know English and  if they hadn't worked really hard at getting to a  
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really high level of confidence with their English  speaking. Even with some mistakes or even with a  
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bit of an accent. Or maybe you're a musician. If  you start making some of your music in English,  
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it doesn't have to all be in English of course,  it can again help you to gain fans from other  
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countries. People like Anitta wouldn't have gotten  her huge fame that she has acquired recently,  
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if she didn't start creating some of her music in  English as well as in Spanish and in her native  
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Portuguese. Or maybe you're a writer and, once  again, you could of course have someone translate  
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your writings. But why not just try writing in  English yourself and acquiring first hand that  
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audience? And of course this last one is near  and dear to my heart. You could become an English  
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teacher. And there's so many different ways  that you can go about this. You can, you know,  
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get a proper degree and you could teach at schools  in your country. You could get a job at a language  
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school maybe if you're still studying, then it's  something that you could do to make some money.  
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On the side you could teach privately, you know,  either online or by having people come to your  
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house or going to students house. You could tutor  people, even. Maybe if you don't have any official  
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degrees yet but you still want to try it out to  see if you like it, or just get a little bit of  
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that initial experience, then you could, you know,  ask any of your friends if they know anyone who  
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needs a good English tutor. And tons of people  need someone to help them with their English.  
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So you can really use your skills to help people  out and make a little bit of money on the side.  
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Or you could even volunteer to help people in  your community who can't afford to learn English.  
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So it was actually my case that I got started  teaching English as a tutor. So when I was living  
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in Mallorca when I was 21, I got some jobs just  teaching younger kids, tutoring them at their  
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homes. And this got me a little bit of experience  in learning, you know. How to make it engaging  
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especially for young people and then after  university I decided to get my teaching English  
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as a foreign language certificate. And I moved to  Brazil and I got my first job officially teaching  
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English as a certified teacher at a language  school in Belo Horizonte. From there I was able  
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to acquire my own private students and then as  RealLife English grew up, I didn't even depend  
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on the income from teaching English anymore. So  if it's the case for you that you're a bit curious  
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about it, you could just start small trying out  tutoring and then you could get the certifications  
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that you need later and you can build your way up.  And who knows what opportunities it'll bring you?  
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You might start your own business or you might  even start your own English learning school.  
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But remember it's really important that you  absolutely love teaching, that you're going to  
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become really passionate about it, because you're  not doing your students any service if you're not,  
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It's really important that you learn about  different methods, even if you just start out  
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tutoring, you need to get better and better. As a  teacher you need to be passionate about learning  
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languages and, of course, you need to continue  working on your own English and perfecting it.  
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All right, so now I'm really curious to hear from  you: which of these career paths did you find  
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the most interesting? Which one do you think you  would be most interested in pursuing? Or maybe we  
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missed one, why don't you let me know down in  the comments below? And probably it's the case  
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that if you want to get a job in English, at  some point you're going to need to actually  
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perform an interview and I know this can be  super nerve-wracking to do in another language,  
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so if that's the case for you, then you  might want to check out next this lesson  
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which will give you some helpful tips.  So let's check out a clip from that now.
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