Comments on: 4 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Diving in to a TESOL Job https://blog.oxfordseminars.ca/4-things-i-wish-id-known-before-diving-in-to-a-tesol-job/ Grads since 1992 Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:26:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.5 By: Bill Gain https://blog.oxfordseminars.ca/4-things-i-wish-id-known-before-diving-in-to-a-tesol-job/#comment-189 Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:19:09 +0000 http://www.oxfordseminars.com/blog/?p=288#comment-189 Not only should you have digital copies of your documents, you should have an external hard drive as backup to all photos, videos, music, and other things. Never use this hard drive in anything other than a computer that you trust. I just lost 45,000 files by plugging mine into a virus filled school computer. Three years of lesson plans and other files have been corrupted and perhaps lost for good.

You should also invest in buying a good VPN service before you leave your western world. It will make you life much easier when you arrive in some countries. While you are investing in things, think about how old that laptop is. Get a very good one with lots of memory and capabilities. That laptop is your bread and butter wherever you go.

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