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DirtGuy
Joined: 28 Dec 2004
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Shroob,
From the bottom of my heart, please, tell me how I can get a gig like that. And why oh why did you turn down something like that?
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GeminiTiger
Joined: 15 Oct 2004
Posts: 999
Location: China, 2005--Present
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 4:45 am Post subject: |
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| DirtGuy wrote: |
Shroob,
From the bottom of my heart, please, tell me how I can get a gig like that. And why oh why did you turn down something like that?
DirtGuy |
DG, really? I mean REALLY? 8 hours a day, 6 days a week = 48 hours of required work per week living in some forsaken shit hole in who knows what conditions on a tourist visa for 4500?
A typical 4500-6000 RMB job involves 14-18 hours per week with a legal visa, no nights or weekends with proper living and working conditions in the city of your choice. |
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DirtGuy
Joined: 28 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 4:50 am Post subject: |
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I meant the job with the rich lady that he declined. The job that was posted in detail sucks.
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Shroob
Joined: 02 Aug 2010
Posts: 1339
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 4:56 am Post subject: |
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| DirtGuy wrote: |
Shroob,
From the bottom of my heart, please, tell me how I can get a gig like that. And why oh why did you turn down something like that?
DirtGuy |
It came from out of the blue, she litterally just turned up at my apartment with a student I sort of knew. She was begging me to come to her house and live with her so she can immerse herself in English. I was very taken aback just because of the spontaneity of it.
It was just too weird for me. I wouldn't want to live in someone's house. She had a maid who cooked all her meals, imported western furniture, gadgets and utilities (coffee makers, American airconditioning units etc.) even a grand piano. She had three houses in this city, one not too far from the campus but it wasn't furnished and was just a shell. If she lived in that one I would consider it! Easily the richest person I've met in China. She regularly travels abroad - Japan, Korea, Thailand.
I still keep in touch with her. |
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choudoufu
Joined: 25 May 2010
Posts: 3325
Location: Mao-berry, PRC
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:31 am Post subject: |
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| I still keep in touch with her. |
i'll take that position. please PM me her contact info. |
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chinesearmy
Joined: 08 Apr 2010
Posts: 394
Location: canada
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:38 am Post subject: |
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Everyone is feeling the inflation.
Are Chinese teachers/profs' wages the same as it was 5 years ago? |
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rogerwilco
Joined: 10 Jun 2010
Posts: 1549
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:47 am Post subject: |
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| chinesearmy wrote: |
Everyone is feeling the inflation.
Are Chinese teachers/profs' wages the same as it was 5 years ago? |
My friend that is a Chinese teacher tells me that her official salary has increased from 2,000 to 6,000 over the past few years. |
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MisterButtkins
Joined: 03 Oct 2009
Posts: 1221
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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| chinesearmy wrote: |
Everyone is feeling the inflation.
Are Chinese teachers/profs' wages the same as it was 5 years ago? |
Wages might be the same but you can be sure with the inflation that the hongbaos are getting much fatter as are the fees for extra classes. This is how Chinese profs make most of their income. |
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TexasHighway
Joined: 03 Dec 2005
Posts: 779
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Several years ago i read in the Shanghai Daily a proposed law which would forbid a school from paying a foreign teacher more than it would the lowest paying Chinese teacher at that school. Maybe that is why we have seen Chinese salaries go up while that of FT's has remained stagnant. |
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bobdaun
Joined: 11 Nov 2008
Posts: 53
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Just to add some balancing information.
There has been a lot of paranoia over the years about FT wages compared to CT wages. I have seen lots of posts claiming that CTs absolutely clean up with fat salaries, under the table payments, bribes, etc. so that they all roll around in big cars and have second homes.
At the college where I work most of the CTs don't even have full-time contracts, they get paid by the hour, and they have to take care of their social security payments themselves, the university doesn't do it for them.
A Chinese friend of mine who works for another college in the same city has been there for two years and still doesn't have a contract, she is just on an hourly wage with no job security.
My immediate boss comes to work on the bus as he doesn't have a car, and rents rather than owns his apartment.
I on the other hand have got two raises in four years and manage to live quite well.
The top college administrators, department heads, deans etc. do very well for themselves, as indeed they do in colleges around the world, and in equivalent positions in private companies, but a lot of the other people are just getting by. |
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