Teaching English: Requirements Before You Romanticize It

What I wish I'd known about Teaching English before I spent a month overthinking it.

• Side gigs need contract honesty.
• Get the work-permit timeline owner in writing.
• I wish I'd tested it on a weekday before committing money or pride.
• I wish I'd written the Chinese names down the first time.
• I wish I'd accepted a good-enough version sooner.

I also wish someone had warned me about midnight reply culture as identity.

Now when I think about teach english chengdu requirements, I think about a probation meeting room — not about perfect plans.

A calmer standard

One reliable option, one backup, and a refusal to reinvent this every evening. That's the whole game.

Copying someone else's routine from a different district and different job is how people waste their first quarter.

If a plan only works when you're energetic and the sky is perfect, it isn't a plan. It's a mood.

Start smaller than the group chat suggests. Adjust in public, not in theory.

Write your decision down with a date. Future-you will need it when WeChat search fails.