those low end jobs seem to appeal to people in their 20's that honestly, are kind of wasting their prime earning years doing something that they will have to abandon later on and probably at the expense of a family member to bail them out. I'm not just being a negative nancy here, I've seen it happen dozens of time... most of the time actually. I think people need to be realistic about the dead end job that this is. I include you in this too but I mean no offense. It's just a warning based on decades of experience and from seeing bad things happen over and over again.
But you do kind of touch base on the fact that you do other things, not just teach TEFL at a school. I hope that is the case and that you have a plan for savings and building your wealthy outside of just teaching in Asia. I don't know of a single success story of people that just did the teaching gig.
RE: Another hardship for TEFL / TESL teachers in SouthEast Asia