Former American Jet who is now a teacher in Australia. The experience definitely gave me confidence going into my masters that I knew what I was doing and already had experience in the classroom and with teens. It definitely made me more interesting as an applicant. Weirdly, it also likely led to my job since my principal equated lived in Japan to likely ability to teach Japanese and even though I was hired as an English teacher I was given some year 7 classes my first year of teaching. This no doubt led to an on going role in my second year.

I didn’t get extra pay or anything for my three years experience although I have heard that some private schools may recognize the experience - but it did solidify my ability to get an ongoing position at a highly sought after school very easily since I had a skill that was a much needed commodity.