I think you miss one very important reason why someone might want to stick with it... the elephant in the room. While $10 an hour for us is peanuts, for many of our tutors from other countries, that's good money.
Right off the bat you hit the nail on the head. At the end of the day, it's a "side hustle" and if it takes so much time (especially on top of parenting), efforts could be better placed elsewhere. It works for me on iTalki, but we're all different. Cheers for this video.
Lol. Preply is a big scam for tutors. I tried it and not definitely worth my time so I immediately deleted my account. Imagine 9 classes a day and only 2 of them are paid because 7 classes are trial. What a waste of energy and time. Plus you can't really change your rate cause $4 and up, students won't even book you. Yes kuripot sila. Sobra. Preply sucks. Don't try it.
I agree with you, it's low paid. However, if you are good at what you do, you should be able to gain students when they have a trial lesson with you. What I think is that trial lessons are too long, should be paid, and that Preply's commissions are too high. It's not worth working for them.
@@simplecommebonjour8352 ... they do not pay you for the trial lesson?? That's riduculous, then how did I get a lot of messages from tutors that I've visited their profiles.
I've learnt a new English expression today: "to want to have your cake and eat it" . I understand and feel you, I also find it hard to balance private life and that kind of online job but for me it's ok because I don't have much friends, I'm not married and don't have any kid. or the moment I'm tutoring French there for 8 dollars one hour although I speak fluently Chinese, English and Spanish but I've never had a decent job in France. I'm thinking about getting a IELTS 8+ and start teaching English as well so if anyone have tips for that thanks a lot. PS: good luck and thank you for sharing your experience in that video.
Hey no problem, the way I learned that saying was “to have your cake and eat it too” meaning that you want the thing but not just to achieve it but to get whatever value from it as well. It’s usually not considered a good thing. Odd saying to be sure.
Hi i took inspiration from your video and also recorded a video on youtube to share my experience of having taught via preply for 3 years. Hopefully this content might be helpful for some going on with their tutor journey.
Nine dollars an hour! How can they provide good quality teachers to their clients at that rate? As a credentialed teacher who just signed up for Preply I'm shocked. I put my minimum hourly on the site as sixty-five per hour and that is cheap for someone with an advanced degree. I suppose I won't be getting clients at that rate. Wish I would have watched your video before I took the hour and a half it took to sign up. Thanks for this video!
My account on preply just got approved and it's live so we'll see how it goes. Engoo/DMM is drying up big time so I'm looking for preply to replace it. Cambly right now is the major one in my income.
Thanks for the video, I was unsure about this company because I wasn’t sure if I could make it a full time job but it seems like with some work I could. Thank you.
Do you recommend it? I'm thinking about tutoring and haven't started yet. I'm a homemaker and I homeschool my 10 year old daughter. I have time during the day and some evenings that I could use to add a bit of household income.
I'm a homemaker and also homeschool my 10 year old. I would definitely have time throughout the day to tutor. Do you recommend Preply for a person like me who just wants to supplement my husband's excellent income?
Whenever I am trying to make my account at preply, a popup notification appears and says that my internet connection is poop. I am using this same network for my other works . Is there any solution to this problem?
I have had the best long term success on amazon merch and redbubble. I have had consistent but slow sales on Udemy but really wouldn't recommend that unless you like being on camera.
