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[LongShiKong]

[relaxtischina]

[LarssonCrew]

Yes I meant a Chinese teaching entirely in Chinese.

I just get a feeling there's many double edged swords.

This guy, I also learnt today, teaches in the week, and he converts an apartment, knocks down a wall and crams in 70 seats, and charges 100 for 2 hours of preparing for a middle school English test.

One of my older students paid 330 an hour to a school, who in turn gave me 150, we met in a Starbucks close to both of us. The school did absolutely zero, except got her to fork out for 100 classes up top, 33,000 RMB. Once the 100 classes were over, she refused to deal directly with me OR my Chinese wife, and only wanted to work with the school. It baffles me why she'd give 330 to a school to give me 150 instead of giving me 200/220 per hour and saving herself money.

As people have said earlier, cash up front is essential, especially with things like so many holidays / excuses to miss classes. If you teach on the weekends the pupils will go to their regular schools if they have make up days, and then you're down potentially 1000-1500 a day or more.

And relaxtischina, you got it spot on. I looked through the list of the richest people in China, do you know how many non Chinese people are on that list? Zero. I guess it's HARD to be more than a tin pot, smallish operating school or boss here without the government stepping on you.

Of course, once you've reached a certain level the govt may take it over and claim it for themselves!

[LongShiKong]

[kungfuman]

[LarssonCrew]

Yes LongShiKong, far better for a Chinese to believe his fellow countrymen, who he or she KNOWS loves to cheat and lie.

One of my friends ran a school, he was Chinese, and promised the parents ANYTHING to get them to sign, then expected them to put up with it. He promised one mother a native English, white, North American or British teacher between the ages of 25-30, she ended up having her daughter taught by a 59 year old Saudi Arabian creepy man, then switched to a Sudanese 62 year old who could barely speak English.

As for dress, I've never seen a Chinese wear a full on suit and tie, most who have some 'power' prefer the usual garish purple polo tucked into a slightly too short pair of chino's with a pair of fake plastic leather lookalike shoes, complete with man purse.

So much better than a pair of smart jeans and a [washed!!!] t shirt. Heck, I even see student's wearing their school uniform with all sorts of dirty marks on them, and they don't care.

[LongShiKong]