u/Apprehensive-Sort596

(Disclaimer: I already posted this in r/tefl, but since I’m referring to the NALCAP program specifically, I feel like id get better answers here.)

So my question relates to a few different subjects:
1: Moving for the program.
2: Finances while on the program.
3: What happens after coming back.
Feel free to answer one or all of these.

For point 1: wtf do I do with all my life’s worth of stuff? Sell it? Put it in storage? Ship it overseas? What will I do about furniture once I’m there??

2: I’ve heard that you don’t make a lot of money on these teaching programs. How would I support myself?

3: I’d be leaving my corporate job in America, and the hiring situation here is currently ABYSMAL. Would I be throwing my career away to work some minimum wage job when I got back? With the meager pay on these programs, where would I move when I get back? My mom’s house?

I know people have been in my shoes many times, so any advice, corrections, or clarifications would be appreciated. For my own context, I’m an American in my 20s with a college degree but also college debt. I don’t have a massive savings or rich parents. I really want to do this program bc YOLO, but I also fear leaving a career that pays decent, going abroad for a fun year or two and then coming back to a bleak reality. Ideally, I’d like to get citizenship in Spain, but that also seems very very difficult, as I am not rich.

So my question relates to a few different subjects:
1: Moving for the program.
2: Finances while on the program.
3: What happens after coming back.
Feel free to answer one or all of these.

For point 1: wtf do I do with all my life’s worth of stuff? Sell it? Put it in storage? Ship it overseas? What will I do about furniture once I’m there??

2: I’ve heard that you don’t make a lot of money on these teaching programs. How would I support myself?

3: I’d be leaving my corporate job in America, and the hiring situation here is currently ABYSMAL. Would I be throwing my career away to work some minimum wage job when I got back? With the meager pay on these programs, where would I move when I get back? My mom’s house?

I know people have been in my shoes many times, so any advice, corrections, or clarifications would be appreciated. For my own context, I’m an American in my 20s with a college degree but also college debt. I don’t have a massive savings or rich parents. I really want to do this program bc YOLO, but I also fear leaving a career that pays decent, going abroad for a fun year or two and then coming back to a bleak reality. Ideally, I’d like to get citizenship in Spain, but that also seems very very difficult, as I am not rich.

So, to my understanding, all the Spanish viceroyalties of the Americas were sworn to the Spanish crown and operated as extensions of Spain. Given that colonial framework, this meant part of Spain’s nobility, military, and administrators were spread outside of just Iberia. Mexico City and Havana were some of the most important cities in the whole empire. I know there was some shifting from Hapsburg to Bourbon rule, but clearly that shift still placed control of the Americas in the hands of Spain.

So, if Spain had all these colonies, which functioned more like semi-independent vassals sworn to a feudal lord, why didn’t they try to reclaim spain from Napoleon rather than establishing independence? They had militaries and navies. Many of their viceroys had some blood claim to the throne. Or, am I mistaken? Did some actually try to take spain back?