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[Cairnsman]

Apart from the possibility of a serendipitous encounter, kindergarten �teaching� is probably going to be your only option, and a limited option due to your Asian appearance.

Outside of Guangdong, your Cantonese language skills will be of no use.

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[The Great Wall of Whiner]

Perhaps consulting work? Hard to say, but coming to a teaching forum and asking teachers how NOT to teach is difficult to consider, for me at least. Perhaps check out a non-teaching forum centered around living in China.

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TGWW - I see your point... just thought that since this is such an active forum, someone would be able to help.

Cairnsman - Thanks for the English lesson.... I am aware of the differences between the two words. This was a typo (seeing as I was posting at 4 am Toronto time and my brain was not fully functioning). But thank you for pointing out my error and feel free to continue editing my posts..

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If I do consider tutoring, are my chances really that limited with an "asian face"?

Thanks.

[steve b]

No - just the hourly rate.

[Non Sequitur]

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I suspect that the wage would be lower in cities with little exposure to foreigners, but what about a place like... Chengdu?

And what is this lower wage range?

[Non Sequitur]

Don't know quite how to put this, but the lower pay expectation is because of your non-Caucasian appearance.
Parents wishing to give their child extra tuition can get a local English major undergrad for 50RMB per hour - probably less and a competent Chinese teacher for 80RMB per hour.
Overall, I think get your husband settled in his job first. If it is with a uni or other tertiary outfit, once he is settled, get him to talk to the FAO about something for you.
In my exp the FAO usually has good contacts with local high schools.
Many tertiary colleges have pre departure programmes for students going overseas - often to Canada. You may have an edge there.
I've taught pre departure programmes for Australia and Canada and I'm neither Australian or Canadian.

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My husband has been corresponding with a lot of recruiters and universities. He makes it clear that he will be bringing his "Canadian wife", and they automatically offer me a job as well.....! I dont want to teach in a classroom setting so we always decline, but I wonder what the response would be if I DID accept the offer and sent them my scanned passport photo...

I'm not offended by the way the Chinese do business. For many organizations western-looking people act as mascots for their business... it's about money, I get it.

Non Sequitur - You're probably right. I'll have a better chance of finding work once I'm there.

Oh well, sucks to be me

[steve b]

A classroom is only a bad place if there's a bad teacher in it. Depending on class sizes - not every school gives you 60 students per form - you can have a lot of fun working, you AND the students.

Why not accept an offer and see what the response is? Where I am a lot of the CTs are not that fluent in English although they teach the mechanics of grammar far better than I could without an awful lot of refreshing 40-year- old memories!

Since I started teaching my main job is uni (18-23yo) but I have also had a crack at one-to-one and all ages bar kindergarten and mature adults. By far the best option for me so far is uni.

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[steve b]

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[Cairnsman]