Hi everyone, I made a comment in another thread and had multiple people reaching out to me and asking me for more information. I thought this opportunity was very well known, but with the interest I received I presume that some people may appreciate some info on it.I left my corporate job about 18 months ago (pre pandemic) to start my first entrepreneurial venture. I had the savings to make it to a break even point, but the pandemic among other things threw a wrench in those gears. Luckily I had started a few months prior to the pandemic teaching English online in China for a company called VIPKid. This allows me to pay my base expenses while focusing my time on my business.What is the job:In a nutshell - I read a glorified powerpoint to children aged 6-14. One on one, and for a 25 minute session. Each session has content that is created for the curriculum that I follow without any prep work. I typically teach 35 classes a week at this point after building a group of regular students.The students and parents choose the teachers they like, so you will find that you click with some students and they stick with you.I get paid a base US $15.50 + a bonus structure of roughly $2.50-4.50 per hour. The payment comes monthly and is deposited either to a US bank or to Paypal (which I use as a Canadian. )Here is the good and bad with it:The Good:The job is actually kind of fun. You just kind of goof around with kids. Give them a quick lesson, try and get them to speak conversationally, and move on.The hours work super well for a bootstrapping entrepreneur. I work from 5AM-9AM EST many days, so I can finish with that, eat some breakfast and get to work on my real business.It's at home. I don't need to travel anywhere daily - and I can bring this job with me when I do travel.I choose my open hours (so long as they coincide with Chinese hours which is +12 from EST)Some kids are scary amazing. Like 6 years old and fluent in english. This is also bad because our younger generation is kind of screwed in North America.The Bad:It's hard not to think my time is worth more than $20/hour, but it is what it is for nowThe bookings start off somewhat slow. It took me about 3 months to start building regulars.It can be tiring to work such long hours, but you do what you have to do to eat.Often times bookings come in groups of 4 (1 session per week for 4 weeks) so declining 1 session results in declining 4 sessions.Anyway, feel free to ask me any questions. I can share my referral link if you like - it will fast track your application process. But either way - I've been doing this for about 15 months. Is it what I want to do forever? Of course not. It pays some bills for now and it works on my schedule. see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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