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[schwa]

That was my first two years in Korea.

3 to 9pm, 50-minute classes with 10-minute breaks, never a free period, 50 weeks a year. Money was low/average.

Really, I didnt mind it. You catch a rhythm & run with it. That was my training ground & I emerged a pretty good teacher. Had an active social life too.

[VanIslander]

i've spent three years under each scheme

i worked 3-9 five days a week for three years and loved it, came in at 2pm for one hour prep daily and went home at 9 sharp, absolutely no desk warming, meetings or office politics, just show up, hustle to prep then teach and go home, never taking my work home with me, but putting every minute into teaching while at work - was wonderful, better after getting a CELTA following my second year, like a runner's high, i was flying, enjoying every minute of teaching and that kind of joy is infectious, the students liked my classes, life was good

after that, i took a job teaching only 3 classes a day one day, 4 classes the next, at a slow, smaller hagwon that paid half a mill more for half the teaching load, oh sure iwent to work at 2, taught from 250 or 340 to 610 then went home, a real sweet short hagwon schedule, and it was another good three years, but i kinda felt like 3 or 4 classes a day just lacked the high-flying fun of 6 a day, 3 and 4 classes a day felt so... part time

[Mr. Pink]

When you are talking 30hrs a week, are we talking 30x60min classes? I don't know any place that does that.

Also, what are you talking about in terms of prep?

Having to do only 1 or 2 preps can make all the difference in the world, though it gets boring as hell repeating the same lesson over and over again.

I teach on average 5 45 minute periods a day and I do a couple hours of privates at the end of the day. The only thing that I've noticed, is I now have to do a bit of work on the weekends because I don't get it all done during the week.

However, for the money I am making, it is worth it.

Also, I come home to my wife and a hot meal...so is that icing on the cake?

[BoholDiver]

I teach 7-9 hours a day. I deal with it just fine.

[WoBW]

[runthegauntlet]

[runthegauntlet]

[ontheway]

Really, teaching 30 class hours per week is so easy, it's like a vacation. Even teaching twice that, plus prep and grading papers is easier than a corporate management job.

Real teaching is easy. Teachers really have a light workload. Try factory work, farm work, construction, accounting, engineering, management or many other jobs ... it really is like a vacation when you only have to teach 30 hours per week of classes.

[Chambertin]

[gregoriomills]

[naturegirl321]

But the 30 hours, are they all different classes? Are you teaching the same one? I've got 30 hours here in Peru and spend a couple hours a day on "public" transport. They're all privates though. you CAN do it. If you manage your time. But I also teach 6 days a week. And each class is 60 minutes. I create my own syllabus, copy materials from books, or make my own games and materials. I have different levels and ages, so nothings' the same.

[The Gipkik]

As a beginning teacher, I did 35 contact hours a week, 6 days a week, for a year at American University Alumni in Bangkok. I learned a lot, but I would never do that again. For beginners, at a good school, it's a quick learning curve.

[I'm no Picasso]

I hate to break it to you, but if teaching 30 hours a week is "a piece of cake" or "like a vacation" to you, you're not doing something right.

[runthegauntlet]

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