In the video below, Jordan explains his "How, What & Why" of earning money in Panama.
He also tells you how he likes it.
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My name is Jordan. I live here in Puerto Armuelles.
I'm here for my ministry. But, to be here, to stay here, it's on my own coin. So, I had to find a job.
Before I left the United States to move here I had to figure out a way to make some type of cash. I asked somebody who had already been abroad, a friend of mine, and asked him what he did for work.
And he said, look online and see what you can find.
The one that just fell right into my lap was my pretty much teaching English.
And it gives me more than enough to stay here in Puerto.
I had to get something quick that I already knew how to do, that's not going to take very long to find. And it just so happened that Open English was there.
Open English, to work for them, I had to speak English fluently was the number one main thing that they stressed, which I do, I'm from America.
The other one is either, living abroad, they didn't say it while hiring, but they really like the fact that you're living abroad and you're living amongst people who are of a foreign tongue, hopefully Spanish is what they were looking for.
So, I told them I lived in Central America, Spanish, boom.
I knew how to speak English, boom.
Also, one of the prerequesits for working for them was that I had to to be able to work weekend evenings, because that's the most undesired shift. And of course I'm very malleable. I didn't have a job. So, that works.
So, that's why I was able to swiftly and an easy transition into working for Open English. It's good.
It took a process of about a month to get hired.
It's rewarding, it is. I get to teach people English, something that they need for work or, so you are actually helping somebody get a skill set, which is kind of really rewarding to you as a person, because you're helping somebody else out.
But also, it's easy to teach.
The tools that Open English gives you to teach is, it helps you as a teacher to teach somebody.
I'm going to say probably in about a month I'll put it on cruise control and be able to teach anybody on that site how to speak English, and I'll be comfortable with it.
