Hello. This is Jack from ToFluency.com and I’m making this video because recently a
lot of learners have been asking me questions like “What do you do? What is your full-time
job?” or “What do you do for a living?” So, what I’m going to do in this video is
tell you my back story, tell you what I did after graduating and then explain what my
full-time job is.
So, after graduating in 2005, I worked in a company, a local company from where I’m
from and worked in the marketing department. After about 18 months of doing this, I decided
to go traveling. So, I bought a ticket to Boston in the US and return was from Rio.
So, I had to get from Boston to Rio in 9 months. I spent about 7 weeks in the US and the rest
of the time in South America. I had an amazing experience. And, it was actually in Ecuador
where I met my wife. She’s from the US. I’m from the UK and we got into a long distance
relationship and it was quite difficult because she was still at University in Georgia and
I was travelling and then moving back to the UK.
So, when I moved back to the UK, I spent about 6 weeks in the US, 6 weeks in the UK. I went
back and forth between the two and it was then when I started to teach English and I actually
started by teaching one to one lessons online. Now, after Kate, my wife, graduated, we moved
to Spain and we both taught English in Spain. Firstly, in Bilbao and then in Valencia, teaching
in different schools, institutes and local businesses but I also start to give one–to-one
and group private lessons, private English lessons and I learned how to market myself
as an English teacher, as an independent English teacher. And, during this time, I also started
to give on-to-one lessons online. So, I went back to doing this but this time I was independent
and I did this by myself. Now, we wanted to settle down in the US.
So, after a couple of years we moved here to Asheville, North Carolina and it was then
when I went full-time teaching one-to-one lessons. So, I had my own teaching business
and I taught one-to-one lessons online to English learners from all over the world.
And then, after about 18 months, 2 years of doing this, I started to help other English
teachers and I helped them by showing them how they could move online and how they could
market themselves as online teachers. And then, I also started to create courses
for English learners, create eBooks, videos for YouTube. So, for the past 4/5 years I
have been full-time with my online business and I do this in two ways. I help English learners
on tofluency.com and through my courses, through these videos, on my blog, on social media
and I also help online teachers. So, it’s difficult when people ask me ‘what you do?’
Because I don’t know how to say this in a quick way. Sometimes, I say “I work online.”
Sometimes, I say “I’m an online teacher and teacher-trainer.” But, usually there
are more questions that come back after this.
So, hopefully that has given you an insight into what I do. I guess the short answer is
this, you know, I make videos like this to help English learners from all over the world.
Now, what I want to know, and the question for this video is this, “What do you do?”
You can leave a short answer or a long answer and you can do so in the comments section
below. So, thank you for watching this video and I’ll see you next time.