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[simon_porter00]

geek alert! I take my hat off to you, not a bad bit of geekery.

Back to the OP: (Based on Warsaw figures)
8k gross? 20 lessons a week at 100zł, 4 times a month and there you go. The question is how to get there. Assuming you're not working the BC and the average wage is roughly 55zł gross per 60 min (please correct me if i'm wrong, i've not worked in a school for a little while now) that means you'd have to pull 37 odd hours a week - ouch.
Assuming you were earning 60zł for 60 min privates and you'd mix that in there somewhere you'd have to do 19 hours of school work and 15 hours or privates a week (assuming it was a 50/50 split and adjusting for gross/net) and that means 34 hours a week. ouch.

8k net? Now, that's a hard one. You'd have to earn a leeeetle bit less than 9500zł gross a month to pull that one out of the bag.
Not going to work out the hours on that, needless to say even if you worked 40 hours a week you wouldn't hit that.

The seemingly obvious alternative is to start up your own business, but I wouldn't do that for at least 6 months not until you've made some contacts and got things lined up.

[Master Shake]

[Hod]

Once again, opinions about schools� interviews and their tricky questions, dress codes, sobriety, smacking and skin colour are subjective. To be objective, however, the realities are below.

�Thailand�those arriving at overland crossings will only be given visa free entry valid for 15 days.�

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/asia-oceania/thailand?ta=entryRequirements&pg=4

A Thailand-based teacher with dodgy paperwork can no longer rely on crossing a border every once in a while, unless they�re prepared to do so every fifteen days.

[simon_porter00]

[dynow]

for your informations mr. porter, I am beats my students from 3 years

[Scawie]

[thefuzz]

Thanks everyone for your input.

Now I know that a more realistic figure would be between 5 and 6K per month...I also don't feel like working all those hours...a but of downtime is necessary to remain sane. Again, all your help is much appreciated.

Cheers.

[Master Shake]

[sharter]

So the bottom line is; 8k is gonna be hard to earn and no-one wants to learn Chinese......

I enjoyed reading the Polish-Thai crazies thread. Personally, I think that EFL is full of unemplyable loonies the world over. Self proclaimed great teachers are everywhere and decent ones very rare. It doesn't matter where you go, you'll find your share of backstabbing, neurotic, over sensitive, pill popping, minor bonking, booze addled drop outs. Poland's got it's fair share of absolute screw ups and cowboyschools just look no further than JDJ. The bottom line is that the private language school cares very little if you can teach. You're just there for the marketing and to make the students laugh. Privates are different ball game though.

[scottie1113]

[Master Shake]

[scottie1113]

I drink Tyskie from the bottle, not from a can. The pain is better when I hit my forehead.

I had a friend here in Gdansk (he's since moved back to the US after about 6 years here for reasons which are outside the scope of this thread) who made 8K nett here. 8 hours a day of private lessons at 50 zl an hour, 5 days a week. Sometimes he went to students (I won't do that) but more often they went to his flat. He started lessons at 10.00 and finished at 22.00.

He usually didn't work during the summer except for hustling students for the next year, which was almost a full time job. It took him a while to build his business, and before he left he told me "never again".

8K is doable if you don't mind not having a life and wrecking your health.

Maybe it's different in WaWa.

[TwinCentre]

This article will give you some ideas about earning more cash. I posted it in the general forum but it seems relevant to this thread:


http://www.eflentrepreneur.com/2010/01/how-tefl-teachers-can-make-more-money.html

[thefuzz]

[Master Shake]