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prawn
Joined: 04 Apr 2004
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you can't expect to be employed as a doctor and to receive a doctor's salary after doing a first aid course, and you can't expect to be employed as a professional tesol teacher and receive a professional tesol teacher salary with no background, or after doing only a one month celta or teach intenational bandaid course, no matter how long you've spent in a chinese classroom. any well qualified and serious professional who understands that a succesful tesol syllabus requires the implementation of a systematic methodology based on textual genre and functional grammar would be insulted by 15000rmb a month, or even more laughable, 100 an hour. if youre youngish (arent going to die of old age in the next 20 years or so), are just starting out or are fairly new to the field, and/or just have a feeling there's something more to language teaching than what many on this forum seem to appreciate, go and put in the hard yards, and you'll find that there are real financial rewards to be had here.
of course you would then seek employment with foreign education providers, rather than with the buffoons of the local institutions whose lunchtime and evening staff bonding sessions have a weekly bill higher than the last decade's professional development budget for the entire country.
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windsorman1972
Joined: 12 May 2004
Posts: 26
Location: China - Here for the Cheap Sex Only
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 9:13 am Post subject: |
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| any well qualified and serious professional who understands that a succesful tesol syllabus requires the implementation of a systematic methodology based on textual genre and functional grammar would be insulted by 15000rmb a month, or even more laughable, 100 an hour. |
So I guess this means you think teaching EFL in China with a TEFL diploma, year after year, at 6,000 RMB per month is not a real or rewarding career? Imagine that! |
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Ludwig
Joined: 26 Apr 2004
Posts: 1096
Location: 22� 20' N, 114� 11' E
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Which means if you are not someone just out of school, here to learn the language or to later brag about all the Chinese girls you nailed, or some retired guy trying to make his pension stretch, you've got to be a moron or a total loser to continue to work in China year after year. And the Chinese, as stupid, inefficient and disorganised as they really are, know that.
Oh, yeah, sorry, I fogot all about the 5,000 years of rich culture and history, blah, blah, blah, blah. A bunch of rationalisation crap by a bunch of losers who can't get a real job back home. Culture my ass - I can get good Chinese food back home and I don't have to put up with some Chinaman firing snot out of his nose onto the floor next to me while I'm eating.
"Oh, but I can save half my salary and live for free and eat like a King, etc, etc. Where can you do that back home?" Hey, pathetic moron losers, successful people back home lose more money per month than you are saving and don't even notice it missing because they have real jobs, making real money with real lives.
"Oh, but you are applying your White, middle-class, elitist, capitalistic, etc., etc. values to all of us. Sometimes success is learning how to smell the roses or seeing the smiles of the grateful students in your classroom. You can't measure success by money alone. If all you care about is money, you should have stayed home to begin with." Excuse me while I throw up.....barf, barf, barf. Okay. Better. Only total losers who have never made a real living make those type of moronic statements. And for those of you who smoked a little bit too much Angel Dust in high school or who were kicked in the head by a mule when you were five, you need a reality cheque here - China isn't Disneyland. There is no Adventure Land here. And, they are still working on the Land of Tomorrow - except at the rate they're going, we'll all be dead by the time they finish it.
Why do you think Chinese parents are sacrifising every Yuan they make to teach their children English? So their kids can get the f*ck out of this hell hole. Why do you think that is, because it's so wonderful here? No - so they can have a BETTER LIFE. Apparently the Chinese know something about life in China that many foreign teachers are hell-bent on denying because, obviously, they have no choice.
Teaching English in China is for young guys passing through, old guys who already made it, and then for morons and total losers (especially those with a history of drug, alcohol and mental problems). Which one are you? |
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Taiping04
Joined: 27 May 2004
Posts: 188
Location: East of Aden
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cujobytes
Joined: 14 May 2004
Posts: 1031
Location: Zhuhai, (Sunny South) China.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 9:43 am Post subject: That boy |
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| That boy is in for a miserable life. Is he in China? If so he should just LEAVE. I offer my services to help him pack his backpack and send him to the land of miserable a$$holes with bad attitudes where I'm sure he'll fit in perfectly. |
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peggiescott
Joined: 20 Mar 2004
Posts: 162
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Hi Guys,
I haven�t been following this thread very closely so I may be way off base here but let me see if I�ve got this right: winsorman1972 admits he has to pay for sex and HE�S calling someone else a loser ??!!
Peggie
"Adventure in Paradise" is an oxymoron |
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