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lost at sea · Joined: 27 Nov 2009

I was looking at this job posting:

conrad2 · Joined: 05 Nov 2009

Those are some horrendous hours if its as advertised. You need to ask the specific school.

Troglodyte · Joined: 06 Dec 2009

WTF?!?! That school already has 5 foreign teacher?! No way! Where could you find 5 idiots willing to work that kind of split shift. Even if you're living in the same building as the school, you'd still have to get up at 5:30am to be ready for the 6:30am start. At best 6:15 (if you come to work in your PJs, unshaved and uncaffeinated). AND you'll be going to bed at 11pm. So at most, you're looking at 7 hours of sleep. And when do you go out to have fun? During the middle of the day? Not unless all your friends are also working a split shift and your boss doesn't mind you coming back for evening classes with a nice aroma of booze on you.

Where did you see it advertised? What's the site link or the recruiter?

lost at sea · Joined: 27 Nov 2009

It was on the list of jobs here on Dave's. I was looking at a bunch of adult gigs, and that one was tucked in one of those recruiters that list a whole bunch of schools. I don't recall the specific one Confused

I thought those hours were insane. I can see if you teach only one block (6 hours) per day, but 2 blocks per day, per person? Only if you have a death wish.

Cerberus · Joined: 29 Oct 2009

lifeinkorea · Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Location: somewhere in China

The advertised hours represent availability. It doesn't mean you have to be there all those hours. They just want to be able to change the schedule at the last minute within those hours.

The important thing to look at here is the number of TOTAL teaching hours. As long as you don't mind a schedule that changes week to week, it's not that bad. You can do stuff between the hours that you don't teach. At a public school you are locked up basically from 8:30-4:30 pm, and even though you only teach 22 hours out of 40, they expect you to stay at the school when you don't teach. At a hagwon, it's different. They don't want you around when you aren't teaching.

naturegirl321 · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Location: Home sweet home

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

What is means is that you could be asked to work any 5-6 classes within that working day. You may end up with 6 classes starting at 6am and spaced 2 hours apart until closing time.

It is true that with most hakwons, since you are paid by the class, you do NOT have to be in the school when not teaching.

lifeinkorea · Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Location: somewhere in China