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.

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…

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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