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[Trumpcard]

I�ve recently signed a part time contract which includes visa sponsorship but no housing. Working hours will be in the evenings. I understand that legally I can get a second public school job. I was offered (through a decent recruiter) some part time pub school jobs with housing but the commute to the evening work would be around 40 mins on the subway. I don't like long commutes but the housing can more than make up for this. Just interested whether to accept one of these pub school jobs or just run around teaching privates and stay in a yeogwan until I can get my own place? I do prefer work stability and I don't want to be the only other foreigner living in my area!

What would you do?

[Areut]

[gsxr750r]

Answer: Because PT by the hour pays almost double. No kidding. I almost took two PT middle school jobs for 35,000 per hour three years ago. One was 3 hours in the morning, and the other was 3 hours in the afternoon. Different schools. No housing. The reason I couldn't do it was because there wasn't enough travel time between the two jobs. It's cheaper and less hassle for them not to get you a house, etc.

Do the math. Six hours per day at 35,000 won = just over 1,000,000 per week. Take that times 4, and you're making a legal 4 million per month.

FYI: Immigration may or may not approve your 2nd work location. They look at how many hours you have at your first FT job (I hear you have to say it's FT), and how many hours you claim to work at your additional PT job. You'd be wise to call your first job FT, and list the additional PT hours at the other location as a lot fewer. Get that OK'd, and you'll be fine. They never write how many hours you're working, or when you're supposed to be there on your ARC. Never in my life have I ever heard of them policing when some teacher was supposed to be at the school -- they only check to see you got the location approved.

If you walk into there with two like PT jobs with similar hours, you'll likely be rejected. In other words -- collude with your schools to lie about how many hours your working at both places. Something like 15 hours at school #1 per week, and six hours at the 2nd school should be about right.

Why? Immigration doesn't want you making a lot of money. I kid you not.



People with F2s are the ones who usually try to set up such job opportunities, although it's not impossible for E2s to do.

[Areut]

WoW Thank you for letting me know that gsxr750r!

[Trumpcard]

because the evening one pays the same as my current shitty full time one and the pub school would pay even more = 4mil+ per month