Posted 06 January 2007 - 02:42 AM
Hello All,
Would be grateful for any thoughts on the following, my partner and I are planning on moving to Crete in September, we fell in love with the island about 5 years ago and have been back several times since.
As we are not retired (both in our thirties) we are hoping to scratch out a living maybe teaching English, and have both booked TEFL courses, however I am aware that neither of us have either teaching experience or a degree. The TEFL providers claim that a degree is not needed and a TEFL certificate would be a sufficient qualification to teach English in an after school centre, is this true and is there lots of work of this nature?
I am a web developer (ASP) and specialise in building online Recruitment, Community & Real Estate programs and websites, is there a market for people with the skills that I have?
We've seen apartments for rent for 300€ monthly is this about right? outside of this (having paid the rent) we were planning on an income £12,000 NET 17,500€ from our business in the UK, for the two of us to live off, with any teaching or development work, giving us a little extra, would we be able to survive on this if we were unsuccessful in finding teaching/development work?
Many thanks