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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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 Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 5:34 am Post subject: Too much work? |
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I possibly have a new job (or jobs) coming up soon. Sounds like it. It's my choice whether to take it or not.
It's teaching a class at a big company 6:30-8 am then phone teaching the same employees from 9-11. I was told that the phone teaching is for 10 students, 10 minutes each. This would all be scripted for me. I don't have all the details right now. The last I heard, I think it would be every day. Not positive. Might be 3 times/wk or twice/wk.
The thing is, I'm already at the hagwon 2-9 where I teach 6 classes MWF and 5.5 TH.
Is the extra money worth it? |
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semphoon
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: Where Nowon is
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| Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 5:46 am Post subject: |
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| How much are you getting for it? |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:13 am Post subject: |
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| You would be working from 6:30am until 9:00pm with only 4 hours of breaktime. Perhaps you can handle it but it would take win-the-lottery money to get me to agree to that. |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:50 am Post subject: |
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| semphoon wrote: |
| How much are you getting for it? |
Something was mentioned before my boss gave me more details about the job. He had asked me if I would be willing to work at a comany for 25,000 an hour Tuesdays/Thursdays for 2 hours/day. I saw him in a meeting with them last week and then he brought up the further details this week. I recognized the guys in the teachers room (glass door). One of them waved to me. The other guy, I screamed at one time because this company kept delaying paying me for a job I did there in January or February. Thought I'd never see them again, but since then I've gotten more students from said company in my hagwon classes.
My boss mentioned something about the phone call portion of the job being 100 minutes of calls and said that would be an hour and a half. I didn't really say anything. It wasn't a formal meeting. We were just smoking outside. To me though, that would be 2 hours. Looks like at least 75,000/day. That's the lowest. Still, that seems too low. Should be 87,500/day. I imagine that asking for 30,000 and hour for 3.5 hours is a little much. That would make it 105,000/day for 3.5 hours. It's a little use of tactic on my boss's (or whoever's) part though to maybe try to make me think of the extra cash I'd be making and try to offer me less. We'll see. If it's too low, I'll tell him to offer it to another teacher and that I'm not interested. |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| You would be working from 6:30am until 9:00pm with only 4 hours of breaktime. Perhaps you can handle it but it would take win-the-lottery money to get me to agree to that. |
If it's on MWF, I'd get 5 hours of breaktime on top of my 10-minute breaks after each class (8-9am, 11am-2:30pm, 7:30-8, and finish at 8:50). More like 6.5 hours total in breaks. Plus I run a smooth ship at the hagwon since I've been teaching there since February last year.
It's different on Tuesdays/Thursdays. I only go in at 2:30 those days and only teach 5.5 50-minutes hours. That gives me 7 hrs of breaks. My last class is with an engineer for 1.5 hrs and it's dead easy. Only talking. No book. Use my computer to look things up. He's the only English student at this time (7:30-9). The other teachers (2 English, 1 Chinese) go home at 7:30. Last Thursday, my student cancelled and my boss sent everyone home early. |
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
Location: Boo-sahn
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| Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 8:39 am Post subject: |
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| Jacl, those are long days regardless of how much money you get. Money's not everything, but I guess it's your choice. You may get breaks, but they're really not enough to do much else other than get sth to eat and maybe do a little prep or banking. I did three weeks of 12 classes on M/W/F and 13 on Tu/Th and I was okay. However, that was back in '97 when I was only 26. Hope you're young with lots of energy. |
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Grotto
Joined: 21 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 8:42 am Post subject: |
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If you got it for a finite time period it wouldnt be bad.
Go hard for 2 months...make the dough and pass it off to another FT.
Its not anything I would want to do for more than 2 months though! |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 10:42 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I've got energy, but I'm no spring chicken either. I'll have to be careful and keep some sort of regimen/routine. I don't have much of one now and I'm usually up until the first hint of sunshine.
I'm thinking 1.6/month. That would take care of cancellations and holidays. Don't have all the details yet though. |
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