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GENO123
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 Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| I think the secret to making money and living a decent life as an EFL teacher in Korea is finding a job with the least contact hours and the most paid vacation time possible. This is why I'll be finding a good university job as soon as I finish my master's next year. Meanwhile, a good public school job seems like the best compromise, and they're far from all full. |
"Contact hours" don't mean anything rather it is total work and trouble versus compensation. If you are correcting papers and tests (until midnight almost every night) and doing administrative work then it is still work in fact such work can be (a lot ) more difficult than teaching. I don't think nearly enough posters on the board understand this. Many Universities especially the big schools will hit teachers this way in the worst way. |
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Nester Noodlemon
Joined: 16 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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People need to remember that it is all relative.
The problem with CDI is that all their training and propoganda establish this expectation that it is professional in a way that say a Fortune 500 company in America is professional (ofc even at that company stupidity will abound - as it does everywhere).
And then CDI disapoints these expectations - esp. now since expansion has diluted so many things and generally lowered quality.
BUT ignoring performace compared to the false expectations CDI itself sets, CDI is still one of the best places to work. Forget about their propaganda and compare it to Hogwons and Public Schools in Korea in general. Sure bad things happen - worse stuff happens elsewehere.
As long as you aren't taking one of the 2.0 to 2.3 million monthly contracts or 25k to 27k hourly packages ofc. CDI sucks at those rates.
And btw hours just are not that long once you know how to prep. quickly - or eventually not prep at all. |
I'll be doing the 28k hourly...does that still meet up with the bad rate scale? |
28K is on the fence. I know a newbie, young lady, who started there a couple of months ago on 30k hourly. |
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