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[CGriswald309B]

and was wondering a few things.

I have a friend who has been there for about 1 1/2 and she says she gets anywhere from 15-20,000 pesos per hour. However, she works for he friends company and does privates.

I was just wondering how hard it is to find work. I taught in Madrid for 2 1/2 years and am almost finished with a year in South Korea.

I don't expect to save a lot in Chile but I don't wanna go into debt like I did in Spain.

Well, many thanks in advance!

Brent

[Ai]

I hear that there's not too much work in January since many people are on vacation. I think that classes start to pick up again in March.

[mike30]

You definitely shouldn't expect to make that kind of money to start with...that being said it is entirely possible. I make 15.000/hr but it took me 5 months before I got set up to do that and had to work for a language school in the interim for 6.000/hr, which is pretty standard. At most language schools you will lose money or just break even, unless you put in ridiculously long days or want to live frugally.

You can make good money here, but you have to be willing to go knock on doors, insist only on group classes (to limit cancellations and also maximize the company's savings over hiring a language school)

Another thing that I found about Chile over working in other countries is that it is more difficult to get hours in during the week due to the fact that most people want classes at the same time. You can't count on working 30 plus hours a week unless you want really long days with lots of breaks in them.