I’ve been teaching English online since 2014. I work for a decent company who pay me $25+ per hour to teach adults and most weeks I am almost completely booked out.

I feel tremendously lucky, but it took a long time to get here. The online teaching industry has exploded these past few years, hiring thousands of English teachers. However, for every good company there are many others who pay badly and take punitive action such as fines and instant firing if a tutor can’t make a class.

I’ve...