It's absolutely worth it to teach overseas. I posted a few complaints about teaching and was subsequently adviced to seek a new school/profession but decided to stick it out.

I think that was a good decision,and I feel much more positive about my job and my fellow teachers than I did a few weeks ago. Looking back, my post was entirely too negative and gave the wrong impression to people (perhaps like you).

I enjoy helping students, but that alone probably wouldn't have gotten me to come to China. The opportunity to live in another country for an extended period of time, meet people, and earning enough money to get by and still having enough free time to enjoy yourself.

Recently, though, I wonder if it's worth it for the students. Some of my students are motivated and interested in English, but a lot are forced to attend my class and will probably not continue studying English when I finish teaching them. (A lot of my students are undergraduate engineering students, not English majors.) I've heard other teachers voice similar concerns.

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What do you think? Is too much emphasis put on teaching English to everyone regardless of who the students are?