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Well, we are finally back together in TJ, my Mexican wife and daughter having come back up from Coatzacoalcos, VC, and me down from my son´s place in Marysville, CA. We are staying temporarily with an old friend at Los Edificios Beige (nee Los Edificios Maron until they were re-painted) in La Zona Rio. Currently I have a crap-paying job with a marketing research job in downtown San Diego and will soon head back north to work for 8 weeks as a Census Bureau enumerator for twice as much dinero.

Upon my return, we will have found our own place (I´m trying to talk my tropical Jarocha wife to consider the cooler environs of Playas de Tijuana) and I will be seeking new employment. An old associate is trying to help me set up a Skype account to work on my PC out of the house doing marketing work and some outbound sales work. Earlier, an English-language school in Mexico had contacted me about an English-language teaching gig here in TJ with business execs as students, but I haven´t heard from him since our initial email exchanges.

I am considering two alternatives, neither of them being mutually exclusive:

1. Teaching English out of my home using the Ingles Sin Barreras method. I have the complete DVD set and can augment it anecdotely with real-life examples and games like English cross-word puzzles for la tarea. My question is how much can I reasonably charge per hour for either individual or small group lessons of no more than three persons?

2. I would also like to teach English in a private preparatoria or adult school. My advantage is that I can teach others to speak the language without an accent. My daughter has had several English teachers and only one did not have a heavy accent that made the other teacher´s accent seem almost unintelligible. Any recommendations on where to seek employment down here?

I do not have an ESL credential but I have several years of experience in teaching business courses at the college level and was a national training manager for a major research, training, and consulting company in the L.A. area and had experience in course design and development along adult learning principles. I also have both a BS and an MBA from USC.

Any thoughts would be welcome.