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[chaz47]

At the beginning of September I'll be going from full-time to part-time. This will be my third year with this academy, but they overextended themselves opening a new branch and some other stuff. So they can't keep me full-time.

I have yet to see the contract or the schedule.

I'm looking for general advice on what to expect and possibly how to hustle up additional hours.

[PRagic]

Be careful. If it's a part time contract, they may list you as an independent contractor, in which case they'll try to skate on your taxes, your pension, and your health coverage. Housing might go the way of the Dodo, too.

[chaz47]

From what I understand they plan to report me as full-time and then give me reduced hours while letting me look for work elsewhere.

They've never had a part-time foreigner before so I hope that means they don't know how to screw me over.

At full time I make 2.3 plus 400 for housing. That's at 30 hours per week. I anticipate they're going to keep me around for my evening block, that will probably be about 20 hours.

How much of a cut in pay do you guys think I'll get? Are they still required to make pension contributions and pay insurance at 20 hours a week? My rough math guess is about 1.8 (including housing). That's a definite hit to my savings plans.

My biggest concern is, I am only 6 months into my year-long lease. When I moved in the academy and I split they key-money. I really like this room, I'm just getting settled... shite. I guess if they buy me out I can just pack up and head home... I can't see moving into a goshiwon to work part-time.

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[Troglodyte]

[furtakk]

I hate to be the guy who inflates numbers, but honestly after two years with them and (I'm assuming) a few other years of experience you should be getting at least 25-30,000/h as a part-time worker, which would put you at over 2.3+ a month if you work 20 hours a week. If they offer 1.8, that only works out to about 20,000/h.

Places like CDI/Pagoda usually start their first year part-timers at that rate (sometimes a little lower), and with two years of experience it doesn't seem like it would be asking for a lot.

I doubt they would be willing to go for something like that though. I would rather cut my losses and find something new, than sell myself short in a situation like this.

[DaeguNL]

[chaz47]

Yeah... this might be getting a bit ridiculous. I'm working splits now and they proposed I work 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening... lol. I strongly suggested 4 hours in the evening. How do they expect me to find another gig if they have me working half of a shift during peak-times for most other hagwons? The cookie seems to be crumbling unfavorably.

Many of my students have told me they'll follow me to another place if it's close enough. There's a big industrial complex nearby so I get lots of salarymen/office worker types. The only other adult school in the area is SDA and the religious aspect scares a lot of them.

[chaz47]

My reduced schedule begins next week and some of my students are getting concerned about the change. A lot of them fear overly large class sizes as my general student count in total is about 30 -35 and they seem to think that all of them are going to try to cram into the three classes I'll teach in September.

As it is now, my classes tend to lean towards smallish discussion groups between 4 to 6 students being the comfort zone.

I'm considering presenting this idea to my present manager:

I will recruit and manage my own classes and pay the academy a commission for allowing me to use their facilities (shabby as they are). This would allow me to structure the classes a bit more and fit students into classes based on their ability rather than the greed of the sales agents (the present method).

I'm concerned with:
1.) Is this legit on an E-2?
2.) What rates should I charge?
3.) What should I offer to pay the academy?

[wanderkind]

[chaz47]

[chaz47]