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AgentMulderUK

I am not sure to accept this job or not...its teaching for 26.5 hours/week for the usual 250,000 yen. before I have always juggled part-time jobs so I am not so sure if this is a good or bad deal for a full-time offer...

How many hours do you GEOS/ECC/etc guys do? I am talking actually teaching hours here,not admin,etc.

Anyone have any comparisons or views about this. It would be greatly appreciated.

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

I don't work in eikaiwa anymore, but with the falling wages, I'd say you are in relatively good shape with a job nowadays that pays like that for those hours.

Questions, though:

Where it is? (city)

Are they going to classify you as part-time, so that you have to take out your own national health insurance (kokumin kenko hoken), or are they going to count your non-teaching time so that you get corporate health insurance (shakai hoken) copayments?

Is this your first teaching job in Japan?

Patros · Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 11

Make sure to ask them about travel times, and schedules if that's important to you. Depending on the school you may find it's 26.5 hours thinly spread over 6 days a week with lots of split shifts and travel time.

A lot of smaller schools don't have enough people (or can't be bothered) to make sane schedules for teachers, and won't even try to work new lessons into your schedule in a convenient way.

AgentMulderUK · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:02 am Post subject:

Thanks guys for those posts. No its not my first post in Japan,but it is my first full-time.

I checked the schedules and there is no horrid split shifts. Travel costs are paid and mostly not so far from my girlfriend's house here in Tokyo.
I will check the insurance thing....I stupidly didn't give it much thought.