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[Brian Caulfield]

My last job in Nanyang I made 2000 a month . The job was supposed to pay 4,000 but my utilities cost 2000. Most teachers never complete their contracts and the ones that do get extra work from the dean who farms them out. The universities control the number of foreign experts coming to the cities , so the buxibons must deal through the deans of the English departments if they want foreign teachers . I am not such a good looking person so I never got asked to work outside the school . I was forced to be more self reliant and make ends meet by using my own ingenuity .
So this is how I got by . I go out of my dorm at 11 when the guards close the gates and then I scavenge for resellable items . . In Nanyang the garbage is just thrown on the streets so the work is easy Things like cardboard glass and tin will pick you up about 10 quai a night . I never picked plastic bags because they are too light and you don't get much for them , so you throw them on the ground . Always take a clean bottle with you because you often find baiju bottles with a few drops in them . You empty these bottles into your clean bottle and at the end of the month you can have a little party.
Another way to make your money go farther is to attend as many English corners as possible . Now you don't get money for these but every now and then a student will take you out for a bowl of noodles . This is five quai saved from your expense account .
I saved much on my food bill by going through thrown out food at the local market . So much of the food is still good . You just take a knife and cut away the rotten parts of the vegeables fruits and meats . Cook this up and you have a nourishing stew .
Well my year in Nanyang wasn't the best in my life but it sure was interesting . I owe much to Jung Ping for teaching me how to live on the streets of China . Like many of the posters and advertisements say you can live well on 2,000 rmb a month .

[Shan-Shan]

Live on 2,000RMB per month?! Coming to China, and living like the Chinese, I have to buy a car, keep a mistress or two on the side, smoke, drink, visit the saunas, and purchase a new phone every few months.

I'm thinking of heading back to Korea where I can afford this lifestyle on a teacher's salary. Bullshiiit like the following--

[james s]

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[william wallace]

Good tongue and cheek happening, however as I've been saying, the salaries never were very high here in general, and now they're going down- Employers and students are getting too co.cky for what they're forking out.

[tw]

See what the number one university in Qingdao pays:

http://www2.ouc.edu.cn/waishi/english/thec.htm

2500 - 3500 RMB a month depending on education and experience for 14-16 hours a week.

This is, after all, Ocean University of China, not Qingdao, not Shandong.

[james s]

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