Markness
Joined: 30 Dec 2009
Posts: 738
Location: Chengdu
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 Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| weigookin74 wrote: |
| Markness wrote: |
Hey OP,
I think there are a few routes to take...
I worked at a public school as my first job here which was supposed to only be "15 teaching hours", but was actually less than that. The problem was that they expected me to be there from 830-430 Monday to Friday, even if I wasn't teaching. Universities offer good accommodations and low teaching hours, but I don't know if they exactly block the classes all together all the time, which can create a strain on your social life if you are chasing the buck.
I now work at a new training school that is Chengdu's version of EF, however, they are small and are exploding. I have moved up the ladder already in a very short amount of time and have nearly tripled the salary of my first employer. I only have "5" more teaching hours and yeah.. the salary definitely makes up for it. They like me a lot there and are hinting for giving me some room to move on up even more. I think I have gotten lucky in a sense. However, not all things are perfect there, I deal with incompetent Chinese staff who are atrocious at communicating and are fantastic at making a simple question turn into an unnecessarily long dialogue. I also had to be a whiny baby (aka put my foot down), and try to get them to block my classes close together. No one wants to work 930-1015 in the morning and then not have an another class until 4pm in the afternoon. This is not something that everyone seems to do at my school for whatever reason... Also, the staff are so incompetent that they "mis-calculate" classes/pay REGULARLY, and I have to keep a record to prove that they fucked up. The changes that I have made along side the manager at my company has been that the staff has to send us our hours on a weekly basis so that we can check that they didn't mess up on their calculations. I wonder if we got paid overtime for every hour they messed up on how many errors they'd make... hmm...
The other option is doing the IELTs route but they don't offer a proper visa. This gig would be perfect for someone who is married to a local (as you would have a marriage visa that allows you to stay in the orient as long as you want, and you TECHNICALLY can't work on it, but I haven't heard of any problems... )
I can't think of anything else unless you are a wizard with the Chinese and pick up the ol "jing ju" Da Shan route and become an entertainer.
Good luck with whatever you do!
Mark |
Bolded part. Really? Did you actually stay all day? I though Public Schools in CHina paid low. I can understand that in SK or Japan (well JET, not dispatch) because they pay a decent wage. But, the only way I'd accept low wages would be in exchange for lots of free time like going home early and having short work days. Otherwise, they can go punch sand. |
Yup, it really depends. Some schools have more than one FT working there so they don't mind as much, but, I worked at one where I was the ONLY FT working there so they wanted to advertise that they had a whitey in the house. The public schools pay really well if you can negotiate. My school paid peanuts because they used a vile recruiter who took more than half of my pay (Buckland). Be careful of them as they rip people off hardcore. Just go directly to the schools if you want to only work one job that pays well.
I now work for a training school where most of my hours are on friday/saturdays and evenings. I get wednesdays and thursdays off, but, I don't mind that really. A lot of training schools like EF only give you one day off, the extra day off is huge when you want to reset your batteries. My school pays double than my previous school and I just got a hefty 1000 yuan per month raise. With OT I got triple of what I made at my old school, but I was tired as hell after and now only work the minimum amount and try to get some privates in with students coming to my apartment.
That's the way to do it I say, or there's always IELTs! |
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