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zeke0606
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 Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:33 am Post subject: what? |
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| The new enforcement of the visa laws have helped this American resident of Russia -- I now have a paid for by the school taxi ride. |
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rusmeister
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Failing to see a connection between the two phenomena here... |
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zeke0606
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:20 am Post subject: what? |
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rusmeister,
You are in Moscow (?) and have Russian residence (?) and I have Russian residence and do not live in Moscow. As the new and improved visa requirements and the old laws are now enforced, there are less foreign English teachers around ----- maybe not in Moscow, but everywhere else. I think that English teachers are still a dime a dozen in Moscow (a paraphase from veiledsentiments in the KSA or Oman forum) So, one of the new benefits that I have living in the Urals is a taxi ride that the school pays for. See now? |
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ecocks
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Location: Gdansk, Poland
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:15 am Post subject: Sounds like |
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| Supply and Demand is asserting itself (finally). |
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rusmeister
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:01 pm Post subject: Re: what? |
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| zeke0606 wrote: |
rusmeister,
You are in Moscow (?) and have Russian residence (?) and I have Russian residence and do not live in Moscow. As the new and improved visa requirements and the old laws are now enforced, there are less foreign English teachers around ----- maybe not in Moscow, but everywhere else. I think that English teachers are still a dime a dozen in Moscow (a paraphase from veiledsentiments in the KSA or Oman forum) So, one of the new benefits that I have living in the Urals is a taxi ride that the school pays for. See now? |
Thanks for the clarification. No one's offering that AFAIK, in Moscow or in the region (I'm a region dude, myself - Go Podmoskov'ye!!) Perm. res. is nice in the face of all this. 
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If you were one of my pupils...  |
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BELS
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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I'm trying to understand the main issue on this thread. One interesting point of question here might be out for all of us, due to new visa laws, are there less of us here? Is it time to put the fees up? or to negotiate more income, after all being settled with a family you cant't afford the backpackers holiday income, can you?
If you have residency and have entrepeneurs license and there are a limited amount of teachers it might be good for those still here. |
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rusmeister
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| BELS wrote: |
I'm trying to understand the main issue on this thread. One interesting point of question here might be out for all of us, due to new visa laws, are there less of us here? Is it time to put the fees up? or to negotiate more income, after all being settled with a family you cant't afford the backpackers holiday income, can you?
If you have residency and have entrepeneurs license and there are a limited amount of teachers it might be good for those still here. |
I'd think you'd have to bear in mind what the market will bear. Inflation has definitely reduced the average Ivan's disposable income, and you could price yourself right out of the market.
On the other hand, you might simply shift up to wealthier clients (insert disgusted emoticon here), but I would prefer to stick with the avg folk.
As to how many of us (us being the ones who are here to stay - the new visa laws do seem to sharply divide teachers into visitors and residents), beats me. The number of overall teachers will decrease, but the number with residency will go sharply up. Keep your eyes open. |
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BELS
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Location: Moscow
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:20 am Post subject: |
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| rusmeister wrote: |
| BELS wrote: |
I'm trying to understand the main issue on this thread. One interesting point of question here might be out for all of us, due to new visa laws, are there less of us here? Is it time to put the fees up? or to negotiate more income, after all being settled with a family you cant't afford the backpackers holiday income, can you?
If you have residency and have entrepeneurs license and there are a limited amount of teachers it might be good for those still here. |
I'd think you'd have to bear in mind what the market will bear. Inflation has definitely reduced the average Ivan's disposable income, and you could price yourself right out of the market.
On the other hand, you might simply shift up to wealthier clients (insert disgusted emoticon here), but I would prefer to stick with the avg folk.
As to how many of us (us being the ones who are here to stay - the new visa laws do seem to sharply divide teachers into visitors and residents), beats me. The number of overall teachers will decrease, but the number with residency will go sharply up. Keep your eyes open. |
I totally agree with you 100%. There's no doubt that you have some experience living, and this inflation is a big problem, we feel it as a family and doing our work, especially the recent 12 months, and its going up even more they say, on necessities not luxuries.
Yes, there are going to be more residents, and less short term contract teachers and in the majority of these resident teachers will be married and have children.
This new breed of teacher needs to be accomadated for. Let's see what the next three months bring when visas start expiring. |
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