I think this is why people look down on teaching in Asia. It’s the wannabe content creators cosplaying as teachers who don’t take their job seriously.

I teach in Taiwan , and during my first year, I learned there are so many levels to teaching overseas. There are the language schools, which is what most gap-year, wannabe nomads get into as a way to fund their travel lifestyle and generally what people talk about on social media when they say “anyone can teach English overseas.” BUT there are also public, private, and international schools where a master’s degree in a relevant field and/or a teaching license from your home country is required and the pay and benefits are quite good.

When it comes to teaching overseas, more specifically in East/Southeast Asia, there tends to be 2 tiers.

Tier 1: people who just want to fund their travel lifestyle and/or drinking/party habit and may not care about teaching but they have no other marketable skills to get into something else.

Tier 2: people who took the time to invest in studying education/linguistics and have the degree(s) and/or license as proof.

And/or people who work at language schools and do well enough to move up the ladder into management, training, curriculum writing or HR positions thus giving them more skills that could be more useful in their home country.


https://medium.com/the-post-grad-survival-guide/is-teaching-esl-abroad-a-legit-career-1541572eaa4

Such as same that teaching overseas has turned into an easy way to make money. It’s no wonder people who do it automatically aren’t taken seriously.