This episode is about how you can guarantee a steady income while being a freelance teacher, how to plan your budget and deal with cancelled classes. I invited Alina Plotnikova to share her experience with us.

Alina says becoming a freelancer was a real game-changer for her. Working for a school meant being overloaded and underpaid and not being able to choose your clients. Alina likes working with students who have clear language goals and stay motivated for long term work and are ready to bring some changes to their life by means of English.

In the middle of the episode, Alina shares her multi-step process of choosing her students before signing contracts with them. She also makes sure that they are ready to commit to long term studying process and understand how much they need to work.

Before starting teaching her clients Alina provides them with information about how many classes her clients may reschedule and agrees about several planned breaks during the studying period.

At the end of the episode, I asked Alina to share her tips for teachers who don’t have the courage to quit their work at school and become self-employed and the tips Alina shared are really worth being heard!

You can find Alina’s blog on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/alina._.plotnikova/ Follow Alina because she shares very interesting things about learning processes and what stumbling blocks students might have and how to overcome them. Alina is learning psychology now so she also shares a lot of interesting thoughts about how psychological issues influence the learning process. And last but not least she has a Telegram channel “The Treasure Hunting Reader’s Club”.

Don’t forget to follow my Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vera.elt.trainer/ to get more tips about freelancing.

Enjoy the episode!