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Thanks! I'm planning on getting IELTS some time in the near future, I'm pretty confident about it.

I know that it's not exactly your situation, but maybe you know, how difficult is it to get a job as an English teacher in foreign countries as a non-native? My father is Anglophone Canadian, but I grew up speaking mostly Polish and very little English, so I can't consider myself a native English speaker. Getting a TESOL certificate and teaching English in other parts of the world would be a dream come true for me, but I'm afraid that on the job market I won't be able to compete with teachers from Anglophone families. Do you have any co-workers for whom English isn't the first language?

Yeah, when my mum was working part-time in a language school in Warsaw in the 90s she would meet tons of people who got the job as teachers only because they were from an English-speaking country, even though they had zero qualifications and back home they worked as plumbers or so... Thanks for your answer. Well, I still have a few years to decide what my life is going to be like. Maybe by then I'll have been living among native speakers long enough to be able to fake that I'm one of them ;)