Originally Posted by Burning Down

I think it depends what kind of career you want. I want to be a teacher, so in Ontario where I live it's beneficial to be fairly fluent in French. It opens more job opportunities because learning basic French (at the very least) is a requirement for students here, so they need people to teach those courses.

I'm not sure what the prospects are like for someone who wants to go to another country to work. I imagine that just turning up in a country to look for work wouldn't do much good, because I'm betting that most local companies would prefer to hire a native speaker. I think your best bet would be to look for career opportunities at multinational corporations or NGO's in your own country to begin with, because they usually look for people who are bilingual or even trilingual and then they can send those employees to offices in other countries.

I know that in Canada, job prospects for ESL immigrants are pretty decent if their English is good. My boyfriend's English is excellent overall and that means his chances of getting a good job are high, and he'd really like to stay here to work. But yeah, I'm not sure about non English speaking countries.