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Meleefracas

Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 63
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:20 am Post subject: Desperate for TEFL job? Hv low standards, but need 1 thing? |
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I've been thinking about my own situation a bit.
So how desperate are you for a TEFL job in China? Will you accept low wages/long hours or split shifts/unheated or uncooled classrooms/troublesome students/substandard accommodation/unhelpful "assistants" etc. - all the usual stuff. Add whatever you want.
What's the one thing that's non-negotiable? That you simply HAVE TO have? A decent salary/wage? Or something else? |
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tarzaninchina
Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 348 Location: World
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:32 am Post subject: More than 1 Thing |
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List of things I refuse to do without and my reasons for them:
Automatic washing machine (refuse to spend 8 hours a week washing clothes)
Hi-speed Internet (hooked up to a computer of course) (refuse to be disconnected from my family and friends here and around the world)
No outright restrictions on my personal life (I'm not a baby and I'm not an angel with a tail)
A/C in the summer (my body is still adjsuting and I still have difficulty over 33 degrees Celcius)
Here's a list of things I've found I can tolerate:
unhelpful staff, screwy contracts, uncooled classrooms, non-overly-troublesome students |
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tw
Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 3898
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:38 am Post subject: Re: Desperate for TEFL job? Hv low standards, but need 1 th |
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Meleefracas wrote: |
What's the one thing that's non-negotiable? That you simply HAVE TO have? A decent salary/wage? Or something else? |
Having water and electricity 24/7. |
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peabocardigan
Joined: 14 Jun 2005 Posts: 63
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:19 am Post subject: |
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Absolutely non-negotiable:
1) Getting paid the right salary, re-imbursements, bonuses, airfares etc. on time.
2) Not getting lied to.
Things that aren't very important to me here:
1) Air-Conditioning (waste of energy and unhealthy)
2) Western food |
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brsmith15

Joined: 12 May 2003 Posts: 1142 Location: New Hampshire USA
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 1:10 am Post subject: |
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Peabo,
Not getting lied to? TIC. Chinese lie so often they can't determine what lies they've told, when, to whom, and under what circumstances.
Reminds me of a Star Trek program in which an android is told to utter the phrase, "I always lie."
Well, then the last statement is a lie, etc., etc., and the robot finally goes mad.
I'd love to catch a Chinese FAO under the same circumstances! |
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sigmoid
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 1276
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 1:44 am Post subject: |
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So how desperate are you for a TEFL job in China? |
Why would anyone be desperate for a TEFL job in China? Why would you accept any of those things? Just work in another country. |
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tw
Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 3898
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 1:52 am Post subject: |
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sigmoid wrote: |
Why would anyone be desperate for a TEFL job in China? Why would you accept any of those things? Just work in another country. |
Maybe you can answer this first?
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Do you think you could help me get a job there? I really want to work in China. |
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sigmoid
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 1276
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:03 am Post subject: |
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Maybe you can answer this first?
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Do you think you could help me get a job there? I really want to work in China.
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I was being sarcastic and facetious.
Good luck in China. But, really, there are other countries where you can teach that seem to have better conditions than what are frequently described on this forum. |
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Keath

Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 129 Location: USA / CHINA / AUSTRALIA
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:49 am Post subject: |
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Why would someone be 'desperate' for a tefl job in China?
Damn, I want to hire that person right away..
PS> OOps that question has already been asked.. sorry.. |
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carken
Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 164 Location: Texas, formerly Hangzhou
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="brsmith15"]Peabo,
Not getting lied to? TIC. Chinese lie so often they can't determine what lies they've told, when, to whom, and under what circumstances.
Reminds me of a 5 minute time filler I was using at the end of class (university level). Students were to finish this sentence, "I never . . . ". One student answered, with a very straight face, "I never lie."
I probed and asked, "Never??"
His answer was, "Never - I'm an honest man." |
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