Let me tell you the job that you are guaranteed to get if you looked it up on google right now.Perhaps one out of every three English teachers I've met in Beijing describe themselves asand then they talk about some 'stuff' theylike doing, or that novel they should get to writing, very intelligent ambitions.The demand for English teachers in China is extremely high, ifin America were to move to China and teach English there would still not be enough to satisfy the demand of a billion+ Chinese.Due to the insatiable demand and lucrativeness of the business, the standards are not restrictive. If you don't have a college degree (say, due to laziness) you can still be hired anyways, many schools are willing to lie about your credentials to make their customers feel satisfied. Tell that lie enough times and you will end up with everyone you know believing you have that background.English teaching has flexible hours, you can basically work as much or as little as you want. Because you feel extremely intelligent you can spend your free time doing whatever you think is what smart people do, like write a book or muse about the intricacies of life while chilling at a bar. Because you are an English speaker teaching non-English speakers, you will feel very smart, and your students will have a skewed opinion of your intelligence.Lots of people are English teachers only part time (they are there to supplement school, or a brief vacation, or find another job), which means that if youdecided to turn English Teaching into your career, you will be steadily moving up. Your income levels will match the middle class college graduates that work 50 hours a week and do overtime until they die. In China you will be paid at the very least 3x more than a Chinese person who studied teaching, working full time at a school.So go forth and teach English, you lazy guy.*This article got quoted by the BBC!*I've been getting a lot of enthusiastic private messages so here's some quick resources for English teaching in China!The US embassy even has pointers for aspirant ESL teachers:And you can check the classifieds for various English teaching posts for whatever city you'd like to travel to