maybe you should first focus on where you want to go then get info on immigration to the country ? just an idea.

In France for instance I know there are many English courses for adults ( in Paris I believe the most known is www.wallstreetinstitute.com) that need English native speakers.
Check also Fusac (most known for its magazine, not the website) for opportunities.

hope this helps !

Kat - you might want to look at this site, which is basically the journal of an American teaching English in Japan:
outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher.html

Very amusing, won't help so much with the practical stuff, but might give you an idea of the culture shock you might face.

I lived overseas for 2 1/2 years, and you certainly will be hit with culture shock for some period of that. What I found was that the first couple of months were sort of a honeymoon period, and then bam I suddenly felt out of place. That passed after a few months and I started making friends and feeling, if not exactly at home, but comfortable enough.

Yeah, I second Dave's ESL Cafe. If you are thinking of a non-Western based culture, realize that things are very, very different from most people's pre-conceptions, and it usually takes 2-3 years for that to sink in. That 2-3 year honeymoon period can be wonderful, but when a person crashes with culture shock, it tends to be big (80-90% rate of people bugging out of Taiwan when the reality hits, for those of us who end up here long term, a decade or more, its simply a matter of constantly managing culture shock, and figuring out where we can accomodate things, and where we have to be inflexible).

Here in Taiwan, it doesn't matter if your degree is from Harvard, distance education, or printed up on an HP...the MOE doesn't care, all they want is a piece of paper.

My personal advice (if I could go back 15 years and do it all over) would be a western culture, or at least one where you have a mild grounding in the language...otherwise you're going to spend a great deal of time learning a new language.

Your friend in China is probably in a similar position to most of us "lifers" in Taiwan. Even if you are a member of a community, the reality is that people are divided into two groups, Chinese People and Others. The latter group rarely finds itself accepted into the former. I do NOT recommend China or Taiwan unless you are inherently fascinated by Chinese culture. Unfortunately, what most people learn about it in the past hasn't actually existed for a few centuries. Its a rather brutal culture when you get below the surface, and things like the Confucian ideal that there can not be such thing as two equals is alive and well, ALL interactions are power exchanges. The couple of other people I know who have been here 10-20 years also talk about at several points becoming despondent. Suicide attempts are common. Those of us who don't, in all honesty get to be a bit abrasive and learn to be rather independent and self-reliant (errrm, to the point that ONE of us...cough...cough....thought he could make it 65Km south during a Cat 3 typhoon...and....ahem....ended up boxed in between downed trees, getting to spend the night in a rather small hotel, lol)...

Kellogg Brown and Root are lookig for ESL instructors. It is in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. $55k/yr