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[tbigdog]

On the net program can you pick up extra money doing privates on nights and weekends? What kind of money per hour can you make ? Are there a lot of hours to be found between privates and working at a language school part time??

Thanks for you HELP

[hkteach]

Your school is your employer and as such, is also your sponsor (for workvisa purposes).
If you plan on working elsewhere part-time, you need your school's permission. This permission will depend on whether your principal thinks you can do it without it interfering with your work at school.

While it's possible for you to do some part-time tutoring or other such work without asking your principal to approve this, you are officially in breach of the law and if this is discovered, your school could make things difficult for you (the worst case scenario is that you could lose your job and/or have your workvisa cancelled)

I'd wait till I was into the swing of things regarding the NET job. Depending on your work hours (e.g. Saturdays) You might find that you're too busy or too tired to be able to do anything much else.

[Smoog]

Anyway, it's mostly sailors that come in HK not privates.

[tbigdog]

On the net program can you pick up extra money doing privates on nights and weekends? What kind of money per hour can you make ? Are there a lot of hours to be found between privates and working at a language school part time?? Help please!!!

[Hkguy]

Honestly if you are on the net programme you will be tired from work and kids that even if you could get permission to work some language school work or privates I think it would be difficult to do over the long run. You would get burnt out.

Also you are in breach of the law if you work for one employer and then tutor on the side. If you are caught you will be fined and deported. The EMB does not take it lightly.

I had to get all kinds of permission to do some volunteer work to help some kids living in a group home.

If I were you I wouldn't risk it for a few hundred extra HK$ a month.

[11:59]

It would be (vastly) more than a few hundred a month. I have never seen or heard of any native speaker doing privates or classes at tutorial centres for anything less than $250 HK an hour, and it is usually between $300 and $450. However, the posters who responded above are correct. First, it is highly unlikely that you would have the time, energy � and therefore inclination � to do any extra work on top of your NET commitments, and why on Earth would anyone want to in the first place? Looking at the EMB master point pay scale I see that even on the PNET scheme the minimum income (salary plus housing allowance) is some $30,000 HK a month. Second, as also noted above, it is very likely that your sponsor would not sanction any extra employment. Many principals, superintendents, and directors would simply assume that it would affect your performance at your primary post, that is, the post they are sponsoring you for. Also, I am sorry to say it, but many principals and other wannabe bigwigs here are quite used to lording it over others, and if you requested permission to perform outside duties, either paid or voluntary, they would most likely simply retort that if you have time for extra work elsewhere then you have time to have more work from your sponsor. This could easily result in your ending up with an increased workload, perhaps even with evening and/or weekend work.

[anninhk]

Most people I know who are PNETs do do tutoring in the evenings and at weekend. This is not of an official nature and is usually for a colleague at school or someone they have met locally. I, personally, could have done a lot of tutoring but prefer not to. On the PNET site people are saying that the current rates on Hong Kong Island are $500 per hour, but usually it is around $350 -$400.