u/just_a_fella_1234

I’ll keep this brief.

I’m a CELTA Pass A teacher with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree, currently teaching English at a university in Monterrey, Mexico.

I have two realistic career paths for the next year:

Option 1: Stay in Mexico.

• I currently teach 16 hours/week at a university.
• There’s a strong chance I’ll also be hired by one or two well-respected Mexican universities to teach additional online courses at a much higher hourly rate, but, I won't know for another week or so.
• I’d likely end up with 2–3 university employers and a full workload spread across them.

Option 2: Move to Istanbul.

• I’ve been offered a full-time university position with better pay, benefits, work-life balance, and, crucially, just one single employer.

My question isn’t about where I’d be happier living. Mexico would probably win that (I speak Spanish, have a girlfriend here, and I’m close to my family in the U.S.).

My question is purely about my CV.

One year from now, which would look stronger to future university employers?

• One year of full-time experience at a single university, or
• One year split across 2–3 universities (with some teaching being online)?

I have a strong feeling that a single full-time university position will look better on my CV, but I’m not sure if that’s actually true or if I’m overthinking it.

If the Istanbul option is better from a career standpoint, how significant is the advantage?

As the title says, I lost about $15k two nights ago while drunk. I LOVE playing blackjack at the casino, usually $25 minimum, some $5 side bets, and just love the table camaraderie and all that. I rarely play online because it's a very dead feeling to me.

However, while drunk, I deposited $500, lost, deposited another $500, lost again, and before I knew it I was trying to get back to even to the tune of losing 15 thousand dollars.

I am lucky and do have other savings and investments, a few hundred thousand. But it is still a massive blow and stings for the financial loss but also for the lack of self control I showed and how quickly it all spiraled.

I went and saw a doctor who gave me some Klonopin (2mg) to manage the short term stress, which has actually worked wonders without rendering me useless or wiping my memory, but really I'm just curious how others have dealt with situations similar to this?

I would love to hear any thoughts, advice, words of wisdom, etc. I know my story is far from the worst, but I don't really have anybody in my life I'm comfortable turning to to talk about this.

Thanks in advance

(Not sure if this is the right community for this. Sorry if so)