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[NathanRahl]

Well, I am currently stranded in Wuhan.

Hooked up with a foreign language school that turned out to basically be a bunch of scumbages.

First off, they tell me I have a job before I even arrive, We negotiate everything from working hours to salary.

Then, when I get here, "Oh, were sorry, we can't hire you."

Turns out they likely found someone else to do it cheaper at the last minute. I did bargain the price up 1,500 rmb, but I am worth every penny.

Now, after telling me I had three days to leave, I got them to give me ten, whoopi. I had a nice apartment where I was, and I up and moved from a nice cushy, and inexpensive part of china, to Wuhan, which is rather pricy.

Don't these schools have any considerations for the lives of other human beings? I don't think so, seems they just care about money, and nothing else.

Anyhow, my main reason for coming here, besides getting a good offer, was that Wuhan is a very rich city, and I want to get into freelancing. However, without the free cushy apartment and employer to sponser me for a visa, I think I am screwed.

Now I can either A, go back to where I was, a rather cheap place to live, but also very poor, with few job oppurtunities, and little chance to make any money. Or, I can stay here, find a place, and take a gamble.

If I had a little more dough, I would do just that. I was just wondering, anyone got any advice?

I already found myself someone to work as my assistant, someone who helped me when I got lost when I arrived, imagine the irony. Anyhow, her englihs is pretty good, and she has proved very able, and can help me find an apartment I think.

She also will help me with placing advertisements, and finding students. However, if I rent a place, I am committed to freelancing here, and I'd have to find students quickly.

So, the safe bet, or the risky one. At this point, it's hard to tell which is which, but I tell you, I am tired of traveling right now, and getting screwed, so I would like to make a go of it here in Wuhan.

If anyone can offer me any advice, helpful hint's, for getting off and running quick in the world of freelance teaching, that would be great.

Also, any insight into working part part time for schools to keep your visa current would also be great, they are all over the place here in wuhan, foreign langauge schools, middle schools, I passed five schools in about ten minutes of walking alone.

Thanks for any insight, help needed very badly, uncharted territory for me, being with a school here. Take care.

[KES]

No advice on how to work part-time at a school. It goes against the intent of the visa and most employers. I assume you are fully aware what you are proposing (free-lancing) is illegal and puts you in a bit of jeopardy when envious neighbors,teachers and schools report you.

I'm sorry I don't have advice to help you accomplish this. As for insight, I'll offer this, start thinking about switching to Plan B.

Best of luck and keep us posted.

[WordUp]

you can do up to eight students at a time free lancing for it to be legal.. I used to have a copy of the translated legal jargon but I cant seem to find it..

Its kinda a mute point though cause nobody really peeps it out..
Sorry to hear you got swindled.. cheers

[jammish]

I'm surprised you find Wuhan pricey. It's actually one of the cheaper cities in China.

[jwbhomer]

I remember all the pearls you cast before the swine after you joined, with (apparently) next to no experience in China under your belt. Seems to me you got what you deserved. Why don't you just go home?

[jammish]

Because he is a made up character.

[Steppenwolf]

...but he is still full of himself: "talked the money up 1500 but am worth every Penny..."

Apparently the would-be employer thought otherwise and who are we to doubt his rationale?

[jwbhomer]

Hahahaha... I was about to say I thought I might have been a little hard on him. What I wonder is why anyone would go to all that trouble...

[NathanRahl]

I am sorry some of you feel that way. I did not get what I desevred at all, however it seems I was quite right in my initial decision never to post here again. There are just too many higyh and might characters who love to kick a man when he is down, because it has been done to them, or they are just not good people.

I cast pearls amoung swine? I am sorry you feel some of the folks here are swine, what a high and mighty attitude. I don't know what anyone means by made up character. I don't need to defend myself at all. Lot's of folks get swindled who come here, but to treat them so is really quite ludicrous.

I find it funny that, being accused of being so negative, quite a few of you who responded to this post had nothing positive to say.

Sad that all some of you do is look to get a rise out of someone, complete waste of my time asking for advice from people who are too jaded or stuck up, and "full of themseleves" to give any. Someone asks for help, they user it is an oppurtunity to bash him. Asking for help is not easy, it is not a sign of ego, but a lack of one. I think some here only see the glass is half empy. Good bye.

[NathanRahl]

Oh, and you geniuses said before that I was someone who had been in china a long time, seeing all I knew. Now you say I am inexperienced and getting what I deserve. I would ask, which is it, can't you make up your mind?

Seems to me that anyone who makes such wild claims, and then retroactively changes them is rather full of themselves, full enough to make such statements, contradict themselves, and just not care. Someone who is that mistaken can't be all that smart. Ahg, but everyone else is swin they must cast pearls before. All I have seen cast from you folks is shite.

Oh, and I already found another position, I ain't going anywhere, but perhaps some of you should, might be good for your negative temperments. And really, if your making such glaring mistakes and just nor caring that you do, might be time to leave the classroom, can't be good to have such an arrogant teacher who is so full of their own righteousness and infallibility.

No more point in posting here, good day.

[Joe C.]

[vikdk]

Well done Nat - yur surviving - so yur doing good! If nuthin else yur posts are teaching the ol' vet pros a thing or two about talkin the talk - just look what I found in another thread today -

[Bayden]

Nathanrahl's a job hopper who did the dirty on a previous employer and now is having it done to him. Karma?
It's people like this who give FTs a bad name.
As for his claim to being a 'real' teacher, well I think his writing speaks for itself.
They must have pretty low standards in that place where he's a real teacher.

[Bayden]

[Joe C.]