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[Soldier]

Wishfulthinking...not to worry...thanks.

I think the thread is now so cluttered, and clogged up that it's so easy to misunderstand something.

Yeah..I was actually speaking positively to you.

Peace!!

Have a good day.

Cheers.

[edwardcatflap]

[Hamburgs_MecGee]

For the record, the interview went like this.

1) Do you like spicy food, you are fashionable, do you want this job?
2) They ask me my salary expectation after I tell them about myself.
3) I ask for 5.0 million
4) He says the highest they can pay is 3.7 million.
5) I explain that I would consider taking the job if the classes were all
scheduled in the morning time and I can leave on days where there are
no a a afternoon responsibilities.

6) He was baffled at this and start telling me how 3.7 is "huge money" and
anyone would kill for this job and I should take it.
7) Wished him luck in finding a good employee and bailed.

[Troglodyte]

[Soldier]

For the record, the interview went like this.

1) Do you like spicy food, you are fashionable, do you want this job?
2) They ask me my salary expectation after I tell them about myself.
3) I ask for 5.0 million
4) He says the highest they can pay is 3.7 million.
5) I explain that I would consider taking the job if the classes were all
scheduled in the morning time and I can leave on days where there are
no a a afternoon responsibilities.

6) He was baffled at this and start telling me how 3.7 is "huge money" and
anyone would kill for this job and I should take it.
7) Wished him luck in finding a good employee and bailed.








Ok, I'm up off my chair.

OK, I'm done laughing now. C'mon seriously? I've heard of some stories, but that's a whopper of a story.

Even 3.0 is big money.

Please try again when you have an accurate account.

Cheers.

[Hamburgs_MecGee]

[edwardcatflap]

[Soldier]

He's just spinning yarns...

[ewlandon]

[Hamburgs_MecGee]

[Soldier]

It's nose to the grindstone...not ear. Do you want me to go deaf?
Anyway...you keep changing the facts like the weather. You're always changing something. It doesn't hold up. This is the wrong forum to BS anyone.

There must be a 'liars' table somewhere in some bar somewhere here.

[edwardcatflap]

[TheUrbanMyth]

[whiteshoes]

Fwiw I just met a for a camp. He PROMISED me a job for 5.0 working for samsung. If a recruiter promises it, it has got to be real, right?

[braindrops]

this threas is quite fascinating.

to be fair, there is nothing directly contradictory in hamburgs statement when he writes 3.5 for 15 hours a week...i think he didnt write 3.5 a month bc he assumed correctly that 3.5 a week is an outlandish sum esp. for 3 hrs of work a day. After all, 3.5 a week would be 700k a day...which would make the gig essentially 233k won per hour. Unless you are personally teaching park geun hye english with taxpayer money, i dont see how that makes any sense. so i think hamburg clearly meant 3.5 a month.

Hamburg is making 9m for a 38 hr work week..an enviable position indeed. In fact, those numbers would demand that he stay right where he is, because that works out to a nine figure salary for less than a standard 2000 hr billable year. I suggest staying until they rip the english textbooks out of his hands and give him a dongdaemun gold watch.

The real question when i think of the issue of getting paid to teach english is, what is the value add? And i also question the attitude of flaunting getting paid a lot to do little when the job is to teach a foreign language. In my experience, it adds imperialistic insult to injury that koreans are compelled to learn english at the expense of up to a third of their income, all the while knowing that the people who come here to teach this language often make more money for far less work and obligation. Because of people like that, English is gaining the kind of back alley vitriol usually reserved for ibankers and fund managers. It is sad that the many people who do come to korea and who genuinely appreciate the unusual situation theyre in--to earn money teaching something that any reasonably educated person back home is gifted--get lumped in with the ones who give foreign english teachers a bad rep. If you are producing fluent speakers as if by assembly line, then by all means, you deserve whatever the market for that will bear. But in my experience, those who tout how little they work and how much they make are not exactly thinking with the students interests first in mind. In those cases, what exactly is the value add that justifies such strong pay? Or is it just a matter of hoarding that info arbitrage situation and tricking them into paying you until they realize that hey, there are now a lot of smart people out in korea looking for work?