IF you are the son of a farmer in Spain and you have attained a degree in agronomy in Universidad de Madrid, then don’t just rest on your laurels and go back working in the farm. Venture into continuing education. You may want to attain a master’s degree in agronomy so work for it. Anyway, your source of income will never be disturbed as you can study and work at the same time. How do you do that? You can do that actually by enrolling online.

Online education is now the trend nowadays even in such basic fields such as agronomy. Even though online education doesn’t involve laboratory drills but the supervisors in an online college have made sure that their students do understand the lesson and they will not fail. To do this, there is a comprehensive exam at the end of the two-academic year course and there will be a thesis for individual students to be passed online of course. Once you have achieved all the requirements of a program leading to a master’s degree in agronomy, you can now apply even across the Atlantic and go to the United States to work in such big companies as Monsanto. It’s so easy to get a visa nowadays contrary to what doomsayers have been announcing. If you are a good citizen here in Spain, then that is not a problem at all. And it will even be easier once the staff at the United States embassy in Madrid has determined that you have graduated from an online college in the United States.

So that’s the catch there, guys. If you want to enroll in an online college, then you can actually enroll overseas. Besides, people in the United States also speak Spanish so there’s no competition in that. But if you really want to be competitive, you can enroll in an English acquisition course on the side. Because English and Spanish are both Romance languages – meaning they derive from one origin which is Roman, they are easy to adapt. Besides, English terms are pronounced closely according to how they are written. Just watch out for the difference between British English and American English. Usually, people here in Spain speak British English because there are lots of British tourists here. There’s only one difference actually but it is really a major one – the pronunciation of the letter r. British has that heavy non-rhotic accent while Americans pronounce that letter. So in that aspect of continuing education acquisition alone, you are already more competitive than your peers and you can have leverage. If you are diligent enough to complete the three stages of Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), you are even qualified to teach English to other non-English speakers as well.

So while waiting for that seemingly elusive calls from Monsanto, you can now construct your own English language school here in Spain. Start from where you grow up. If you grow up in Torremolinos, then construct the school there.