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[Roger]

Now you are trying to fool yourself on the lexical front, Y,...

I think you understand perfectly what I meant by "attitudinally challenged". In your case, intentions speak pretty loud - "freelancing" as a viable alternative to legal work. Anyone who considers this when they have more straitforward and perfectly legal alternatives is in the same league as smugglers, pickpockets and tax dodgers.

Besides, you posted your first query in APRIL and now, towards the end of AUGUST, you are still around looking for answers to this defunct thread? Looks fishy to me.

[Yahnena]

hi foreignexpert,
thank you for your encouragements.
i currently teach a class of company leaders in heilongjiang province. i have designed my own curriculum and they love it. (if it wasn't for the extremely cold winters up here, i wouldn't want to move away...).
in beijing, i would like to stay in the same field. i will arrive there on sept. 17th.

i am trying to get in touch with good companies directly, without going through an agent who makes money on my wages. i have done this 'white man slavery thing' (where my employer is renting me out to customers) for one year now and think that's enough. it's not only because of less income that i want to stop that, it's a principle.
i know that agencies have their purpose, especially by securing a certain continuity for the customer, but in my case, i'm a very reliable and healthy teacher, so i always keep my contracts, i'm always on time, and if if would fall sick, i would look for a good replacement myself.

so, do you know about a good company that would like to have an excellent business/legal English teacher?

where are you located?
150 - 200 RMB/lesson is reasonable in beijing considering the cost of living (rent, etc.).

cheers

[Yahnena]

roger:
i disagree with you that freelancing is illegal. as long as i have a working visa, i can work independantly in china in a legal job (esl) as much as i want to. i personally know lots of teachers who do that, especially those who live in bigger cities and who have been in china for a while.

april - august: i am bound by a contract here in heilongjiang province until the middle of september. my employer and i were negotiating about an earlier departure, but finally 3 of his new teachers ran away, so i decided to stay until the end of my contract and use the time to prepare my move to beijing. what's wrong/or fishy with that?

thread: it's true, i haven't payed any attention to this thread anymore, since i have decided to go to beijing. when i suddenly received a notice that foreignexpert had posted an answer, i replied just that.
do you see a problem here?

roger, one question: why are you so angry with me?

cheers

[Roger]

Keep bragging your mouth off, freelancing impostor. No, freelancing is NOT legal, it is merely tolerated in some cases, and persecuted in many others.

Why should you be exempt from the rules that apply to any FT? Why should you be free in a country where any jobholder until a few years ago was a lifelong property of the State via its millions of danweis?

"White slave" and what not - who are you to think you are in a better category? Any job holder is, to some extent, a "slave". It means you and I are not clever enough to be bosses.
There are only two sorts of people in the labour market - those who have jobs, and those who need them. Either you are a boss or you are his employee.
I too do freelance but with the explicit permission from my superiors. And, on occasion, I must pay extra tax for extra income. IT is only fair and right that foreigners like you abide by the law.

You have a work visa? Who applied for it on your behalf? Certainly not yourself. ANd it specifies your employer; you can be asked by any PSB to show them your passport and then they can fine you and deport you.

[Yahnena]

roger:
from freelancer to freelancer: don't sweat it and don't worry, what i'm doing is legal.
thanks for your concern.

foreignexpert: if you have a message for me, please use PM, i prefer to have roger out of the system.
thanks.

cheers