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Matt Cates

Matt Cates is a retired government administrator-turned-digital nomad. As a freelance writer and EFL teacher living in Turkey, he's recently launched a free, unique project known as Mad English Lab to train one individual at a time in English and online/exportable vocational skills so that they might earn an income while traveling the world. Matt's also the author of the sci-fi novel Haveck: The First Transhuman and the early retirement how-to guide Why Are You Still Working? He's been published in Forbes, OMNI magazine, Geeks, Longevity, Journal, Tripoto, and others. 

The Wolf of Upwork
EFL Business, November 2017, Teachers Stories, The Business of Teaching10/11/2017

The Wolf of Upwork

By Matt Cates

By Matt Cates Dear Readers, Clearly I don’t know what I’m doing. Most EFL teachers aren’t in this for the big bucks, but at…

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It Never Got Weird Enough for Me...So I Made It Weirder
July 2017, Teachers Stories, The Business of Teaching14/07/2017

It Never Got Weird Enough for Me…So I Made It Weirder

By Matt Cates

It Never Got Weird Enough for Me…So I Made It Weirder It can get weird fast, teaching English, but as Hunter S. Thompson said,…

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