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[vikdk]

cheers mate - yuv made me day - and not a bit of bad parlance in sight

[Babala]

I won't accuse you of being greedy or lazy, maybe just of having too much time on your hands that you feel the need to brag about your salary (by the way, we could give a rat's...) on every single thread.

[vikdk]

babala yur 40 hours an you can still find time to write here - yur quite a girl - actualy some ppl might give a rats about it - ppl who are thinking of making a serious go in China - you know real qualified teachers - if braging is giving these ppl real info about the posibilities here then a braging ill go

[vikdk]

as a foot note to my last post
Dear Larry, sorry about the mess we made in your thread - just reckon we gave you way too much info - but then again I reckon the only way of finding out what you can do here is by taking a plunge and testing the waters - lots do, but jump out screaming complaining of icy tempretures, but a few keep on bobbing along - thing is though, what you interested in the doggy paddle or the butterfly - and then again one mans doggy paddle is anothers butterfly - waaaaaaaaaaaaah and then we get to a discusion on heresay!!!
Sorry mate reckon your question was just to darn hard for this class - but best of luck - and tell yur misses that maybe she can find a regular job - marketing herself (as so helpfully suggested by Rog) aint neccesary here, and really against the law
all the best
vik

[Roger]

[quote="millie"][quote="Roger"] US$550 per month is a decent wage

Fair suck of the sauce bottle! You might believe it but few other westerners do.

Any FT that works in China knows that this is survival and very little more.
Let�s not pretend otherwise.
And that�s OK to to work for this amount if it suits your situation but �decent? � that�s a terrible misuse of the word!


Oh, I see a relatively decent wage...
like compared to Chinese farmers and factory workers and people who live under bridges
Oh, yeh � that sort of decent wage.
I

[vikdk]

I bet poor Larry will get a headache when he reads this Roger beauty -

[millie]

Roger, you may have missed your vocation.

One of the signs of a great comic is to be able lead the audience on, straight faced, but only after a moments refection do they realise that they have been led down the garden path and have swallowed a whole pile of complete nonsense.

Yours is a nice attempt but unfortunately there are just too many pieces of the totally absurd for anyone swallow this one whole.

That is what you are trying to do, isn�t it?


If not, then you really have soiled yourself in a terribly embarrassing way in public.
Best clean up before too many notice.

[vikdk]

Roger just take this as pay back time for all the rude nastyness you've spread around these forums in the past

[Jizzo T. Clown]

[Gregor]

Who is this millie character??
Man oh man. 5000RMB a month is not only perfectly livable, it's a salary that, living here in China, affords SOME teachers to save TWICE as much as they EVER could in England.
Mind you, two times nothing is nothing.
Still. I've had teachers come to work for me at that salary. A couple lived comfortably (and they'd go out to the bar with us, occasionally) on two thousand a month. ONE guy insisted he was perfectly happy staying at home, and he'd even have us over every now and then. It was always BYO, but he always had HIS own, as well, plus a DVD to watch, and this guy swore that he saved between 1,500 to 2000 kuai a month.
Allow me to do the math. That bloke saved at LEAST 2400 pounds that year.
OK. Not a huge amount. But that's a LOT more than nothing.

Then you have me. I was at 9000 kuai a month, and managed to save almost nothing, BUT I now own a VERY nice place in downtown Shenyang and I only have two more years before I pay it off.
Again, allow me to do the math:
At 600 pounds (at 15 kuai to the pound) per month salary, I qualified for a mortgage. it's a five-year mortgage, so that it would be paid off by 2009, BUT! My salary increased later on, and I was able to pay so much more against the principle that I reduced the pay-off time by a year.
Mind you, this is in a luxury apartment building in Heping District. I'd be really interested to hear about millie buying anything more than LUNCH anywhere in England with a salary of 600 pounds a month.

[vikdk]

what's up gregor - we making the krap pay and long hours at EF look pretty uninviting - go recruit somewhere else

[Gregor]

[millie]

[vikdk]

the salesman is at work again, ringing on the doorbells - putting his foot in the door - opening that darn suitcase - and blah blah blah - the same 'ol silvermouth salespitch

greg me 'ol mate
1. if EF is an English company why don't you recruit qualified teachers there - is it something to do with low wages offered - and don't give the franchise excuse - education aint hambugers!
2. can EF meet the 100rmb/hour mark - I know two teachers with French as their first language who can command 150/hour - for such a fine company I hope you will tell me that 100 is norm with you guys - remember folks the answer greg will want to give us doesn't take into consideration travelling time or class prep
3. why the shared accom - imagine if you had to bunk up with a roger
4. imagine going to a slivermouth DOS like gregor with your gripes - better the Chinese boss at least then you get a real lesson on how to survive (or not) in this environment.

No Mr. salesmen i don't want to buy any of that wonder floor polish - and i don't advise any of you guys to do so either

[Gregor]

What's a "slivermouth"?