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Channel: Danie Jay
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if you have been sifting through loads
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of online english teaching companies and
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you're feeling
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really overwhelmed right now don't worry
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i was in your shoes at 1.2 today i'm
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gonna clear any confusion and i'm going
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to be covering the top
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five best online english teaching
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companies for beginners
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with the highest pay if you're looking
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for home-based jobs or a job that you
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can take with you anywhere
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whether that's full-time or part-time
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these online teaching gigs are for you
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now all the companies i'm talking about
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today are where you'll be teaching
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chinese students but a question i get
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asked a lot and i want to answer is that
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no you do not need to speak any chinese
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to be able to work for these companies
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they want
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students to really immerse themselves in
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english so all you need to know is
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english
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i'm going to do company overviews of the
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top five companies and i'm going to
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share about the classes curriculum
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bookings pay requirements and then also
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end with some cons because i think it's
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always important to know some of the
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cons as well
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and be sure to stay to the end because
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i'm going to share a really helpful
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i don't know if it's a warning or piece
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of advice for new online english
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teachers that's really important for you
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to know
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as an independent contractor teacher and
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if you are new to online teaching
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be sure to join my ultimate guide to
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online teacher freelance freedom
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course
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up i am so glad that you're here today
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i'm danny and i'm an online teacher
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entrepreneur and business coach
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i help people build lives of freedom
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through teaching online and also
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building scalable teacher brands on
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youtube
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all right the online teaching job for
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beginners the highest pay coming in at
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number one
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is go go kid i have had a contract with
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gogokid for about two and a half years
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now and i have
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loved working with them it is by far my
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favorite esl company
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also esl stands for english as a second
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language so if i say that throughout
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this video that's what it means
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interestingly enough gogokid is owned by
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bike dance which is the same company
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that owns tick tock
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and it was started in 2018. classes with
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gogokid are short and sweet they're only
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25 minutes long and they're one-on-one
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only one student at a time so it's
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really
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nice for new teachers a great thing
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about gogokid is that the curriculum is
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all done for you and the curriculum is
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really interactive and fun so all you
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have to do is review the class
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beforehand and then you teach slides
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you don't have to worry about creating
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any curriculum yourself google kid pay
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is generally higher than a lot of online
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english companies that i've found their
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pay is anywhere between
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14 to 25 an hour depending on bonuses
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i personally make 23 dollars an hour
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with gogokid and if you want a
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further breakdown of google kid pay you
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can check out this video
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now bookings with gogokid there are no
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minimum or maximum hours which is really
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awesome
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generally the peak times to teach our
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beijing evening so if you're in the
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states that's usually early mornings
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the company doesn't book for you parents
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book for you so you do need a strong
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profile so i highly recommend getting
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the help of a referral that will help
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you set up your profile i do help all my
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referrals with some profile tips so if
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you would like to work with me
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throughout the application process that
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is something that i provide right now
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gogokid is actually having a 300
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new teacher incentive so they really
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need more teachers bookings have been
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pretty hot so
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it's a great company to get in on and if
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you want more info on the 300
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bonus you can read more about that here
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i've been helping applicants work for
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gogokid for about two years now and i've
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helped a lot of newbie teachers who've
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never taught esl online before or never
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even taught before
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work for gogokid and really excel and so
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along with that reason and then the pay
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and hot bookings are why i have picked
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it as the number one company for new
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teachers now what are the cons with
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gogokid obviously there's always cons to
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every company that you work for
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i think the biggest comment gogokid is
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that they are really
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strict about cancellations so if you
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have to cancel within
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you know 24 hours of the class you are
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penalized and that kind of stinks you
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need to make sure you have to document
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the reasons why you have to cancel
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classes so that's the main con also
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sometimes it can feel a little bit
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difficult for teachers to get in contact
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with home office
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so those are the cons i still think it's
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definitely a company worth working for
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now what are the requirements to teach
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for gogokid well you need to be eligible
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to work in the usa or canada without a
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visa but that does not mean that you
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need to be living in the us or canada i
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actually got the job with gogokid when i
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was living in vietnam you also need at
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least a bachelor's degree and that can
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mean anything my bachelor's degree is in
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history so it doesn't have to be in
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education
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you do need some experience working with
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kids but that can be something even
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informal like babysitting
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and lastly with every single company i'm
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going to talk about today you are going
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to need an esl certification
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china recently passed a law that all
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english teachers need an esl
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certification so that is a tesla
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tefl or celta i have a tesl and if you'd
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like a link to a 19
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tesla certification it's 120 hours and
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it honestly i finished it in like a half
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a day and i use it for
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go gogokid magic ears and vipkid i
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highly recommend it you can find that
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linked above
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the next english teaching job for
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beginners with high pay is vipkid i
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think vipkid is one of the best known
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online english teaching companies
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because in 2020 glassdoor rated it as
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one of the number one companies to work
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for
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so it's gotten a lot of press and
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they've got about a hundred thousand
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teachers it's a big company
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vipkid is very similar to gogokid i also
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have a contract with vipkid i've been
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working with them for like
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four years now almost i don't really
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open hours with them at all anymore but
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again i'll talk about that at the end
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with that kind of warning for new
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teachers and job stability so i'll cover
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that in a second i started working with
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vipkid when i was traveling all over
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southeast asia building a company i
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needed income or i could work from
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anywhere and i found vipkid
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but let's talk about vipkid classes like
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gogokid
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classes are 25 minutes long and one on
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one the curriculum
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as well is already all done for you it's
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a little less interactive than gogokids
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which i guess kind of means i think that
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vip curriculum is
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like a little more boring than gogokids
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i guess but it's still
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already all done for you so it makes it
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one of the easiest jobs in the world
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because i have to do
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is look at the slides before and then
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you teach it the pay with vipkid is
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decent it's a little less than
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gogo kid you can make anywhere from 14
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to 22 dollars an hour with vipkid i
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don't really open hours with vipkid
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anymore like i said most of my hours go
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to gogokid but when i do i make about
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19 an hour so for me i make a decent
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amount more with gogokid bookings for
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vipkid are again
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like go go kids where parents book you
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the company doesn't book for you so
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again there's no minimum or maximum
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hours
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i have talked to some of my online
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teacher friends on instagram
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if you become an online teacher i highly
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recommend getting an online teacher
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instagram
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and adding me you can add a bunch of
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other teachers it's like our way of
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having co-workers almost i guess but
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anyway i've been talking to some vipkid
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teachers and they've been saying that
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bookings have been a little bit lower
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with vip kids so
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that's just kind of a warning there know
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that when you do get the job vipkid will
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push your profile as a new teacher which
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is great to help
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you get in the eyes of more parents but
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it will probably take you about a month
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or two to really build up a following of
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regular students
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something cool though about vipkid is
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you are able to pick the age range of
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students you want to work with which you
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can't do with most other companies
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so if you just want to work with younger
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students who can or if you just want to
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work with older students you can do that
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too
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some cons with vipkid are like gogokid
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they have a very strict cancellation
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policy which i think kind of stinks
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and you can sort of feel like a number
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because there are like over a hundred
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thousand teachers
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so it doesn't feel like you can speak
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again to home office that easily
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requirements with vipkid are the same as
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google kid you need some experience
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working
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with kids you need a bachelor's degree
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that could be in anything you need to be
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eligible to work in the u.s or canada
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without a visa
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and then you need that esl certification
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tesla tefl or celta
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the next top online english teaching
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company with high pay is
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magic gears now magic ears is an awesome
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very high energy company and you can
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make more money to make up to 26
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an hour but the caveat to that is you
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may be teaching up to four students at a
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time
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i just recently actually applied to
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magic years and got the job so if you
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want to see my actual footage of the
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interview you can check out this video
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but anyway it's a very high energy
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company like i said
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let's talk a little bit about it the
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classes are short and sweet 25 minutes
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long
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but you have up to four students at a
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time the curriculum
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is all made for you and it's really
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interactive the pay is also quite good
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you can make anywhere from
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15 to 26 dollars an hour depending on
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bonuses
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in terms of bookings with magic ears
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unlike vipkid and gogokid
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magic gears books for you so if you
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don't want to worry about you know
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waiting to build up regulars it's kind
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of nice about magic ears that they do
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the bookings for you and also they have
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a much more relaxed cancellation policy
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with classes you're allowed up to four
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cancellations a
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month no questions asked matcha gears
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recommends a minimum
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of five hours of classes a week but
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there are no minimum hours required
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some kinds of magic years are that you
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are teaching up to four students at a
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time so in my mind
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i think that's a little overwhelming for
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a beginning teacher i know i was really
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overwhelmed by it at first i
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started teaching for another company
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called out school it's not an english
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teaching company it's more like any type
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of curriculum
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and i then started teaching up to nine
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students with that company and then i
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was like okay
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i can actually teach multiple students
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at a time i can try out match gears but
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before it scared me
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so if you're a scary cat like me then
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start with maybe a one-on-one company
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but if you're like no
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i got this i've if you're a brick and
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mortar teacher then magic ears may be a
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go
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i think that's the main con with magic
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ears and also they can be a little bit
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more
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i don't want to say micro managing but
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they definitely look at your classes a
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bit more than companies like vipkid and
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gogokid and the other ones i'll talk
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about so
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they'll give you a lot of helpful
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feedback if that's something you're
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interested in getting
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then that's great for me where i like to
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just kind of do my own thing
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and not have to worry uh i prefer that
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but it's up to you
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so those are my cons with magic ears
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what are the requirements for magic ears
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well number one is that you are very
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passionate like i said
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they want teachers that have really high
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energy so if you don't have high energy
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it might not be the company for you
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they really stress that you need to
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speak at an idiomatic
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level which is like a native english
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speaker level and you must be from the
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us
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canada uk australia new zealand or south
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africa
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you must hold a bachelor's degree or
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higher and you can also be getting your
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bachelor's degree and still get the job
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with magic years which is really cool
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i've actually met a teacher still in the
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process of getting her bachelor's degree
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but she's able to work for magic years
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and lastly like all these companies you
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need an esl certification
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the next top online english teaching
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company for beginners with high pay
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is palfish now palfish is super cool
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because it's actually an
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app on your phone so you teach it like
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on your iphone or on an android and
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there's two
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ways you can teach for palfish there's
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powerfish free talk where you like just
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have conversations about
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anything usually it's more with adults
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and then there's their palfish official
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kids course and that's where you can
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make more the money and that's what i'm
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going to talk about right now
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so with the palfish official kids course
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classes are one on one and 25 minutes
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long and the curriculum is
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all done for you pay is anywhere from 16
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to 22
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an hour and for bookings you are in
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control of when you open your hours
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again those peak times are going to be
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evenings beijing time
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and with palfish though there are a
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minimum required amount of hours and
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that's three and a half hours
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a week i'm actually not currently a
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palpha teacher and so i was talking with
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some palfish teachers and they said that
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the
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three and a half hours a week is kind of
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flexible like that's not really strictly
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enforced so if you are a polish teacher
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let me know if that's true in the
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comments below is it strictly enforced
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or not
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because i don't know the cons to working
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with palpitations are that the pay is a
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little bit
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lower than some other companies and they
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do have those minimum required hours
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for me i like to have no minimum or
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maximum hours because i like to just
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kind of do my own thing
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that's why i love teaching english
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online but i do think it's so cool that
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all you need is a phone to teach
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that's pretty cool it's an app that's so
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crazy
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anyway the requirements to teach with
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palfish are oop you do not need a degree
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so that's awesome
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you need a smartphone you need to have
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some experience teaching kids you need
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to be a native english speaker
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so that means you can be from the us uk
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canada australia ireland
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new zealand and have a neutral accent
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and lastly again
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you need that esl certification now the
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last esl company for beginners with high
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pay
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is q kids i do not personally work for q
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kids but i have other future friends who
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love working for q kids and so i wanted
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to add it to the list
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classes are 30 minutes long with cute
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kids and up to
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four students per class the curriculum
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is all done for you
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and the pay is anywhere from 16 to 20 an
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hour
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bookings are like magic years where the
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company actually books for you which is
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really nice so you don't have to worry
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about building up a pool of students
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q kids does though have a minimum
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commitment
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of six hours per week to work with them
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i'm not sure how strict they are so
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if you're a cute kids teacher let me
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know some of the consticute kids
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i think are again like magic ears you're
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teaching up to four students
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at a time so if that overwhelms you as a
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new teacher it may be better to look at
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one-on-one companies
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and also the pays a little bit less than
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the other companies i have mentioned you
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make up to 20
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an hour so if you're trying to decide
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between like cute kids and magic ears i
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would go for magic ears maybe because
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the pay is higher what are the
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requirements to teach for q kids well
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you need to legally be eligible to work
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in the us or canada you need a
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bachelor's degree
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and you need that esl certification okay
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so now let's get into that warning that
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i said i would share that all new
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teachers really need to know as
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independent contractors and that is
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that policies are always changing and so
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what does that mean
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that means that for example i used to
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make more like 24
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an hour with gogokid and now i make more
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like 23
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an hour with gogokid why because gogokid
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decided to change their
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pay structure all of a sudden and i
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couldn't do anything about it as an
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independent contractor companies can
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decide to change policies
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like this and we can't really do
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anything so with that in mind knowing
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that things always change
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you want to have backup companies i
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would say 98
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of my teacher friends work for more than
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one online esl company
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i have contracts with about almost four
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companies i'm adding on magic years this
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week so
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with four companies three and a half
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that doesn't mean i teach for all those
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companies all the time but it does mean
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that i have backup so if something
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happens with this company i can
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immediately open
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hours for the next company it really
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increases your job stability so what i
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recommend if you're a new teacher is
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to pick one company and apply get the
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job and really get it down pat
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work for that company for a month to
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three months once you're feeling
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comfortable with it
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then add on another company and that
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doesn't mean you even have to open a lot
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of hours with that new company
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but then at least you have that backup
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if something changes with this company
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right away you can turn around and you
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have another company that you can then
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open hours with and be making money with
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all right so i hope that that's really
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helpful for you let me know what company
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are you applying to now if you would
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like help applying to gogokid vipkid or
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magicgears i would love to help you
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through and if you're interested in
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applying to palfish or q kids
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hit me up i can also send you the names
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of some teachers who would love to help
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you through those applications and i
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wish you
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all of the best on your online english
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teacher journey being an online english
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teacher brings so much freedom and
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flexibility it is
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the best i'm really excited for you also
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be sure to join my ultimate guide
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to online teacher freelance freedom if
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you haven't yet
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and i will see you next video
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