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Omkara · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Location: USA

My school offers me OT, and I take some. But there need is higher than my willingness, and owing to the complex visa structure, they cannot fill the extra hours. . .so I feel a little pressure to work still more, but have stood firm.

Now, I teach six extra classes a week. That keeps me in school til 6:20 twice weekly. To take on more would make that three long days a week.

What are your situations like?

Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul

I know people with no overtime who teach under 20 hours a week and I know people who work a ton of overtime every day and are over 30 hours a week.

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

poet13 · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:33 pm Post subject:

One week I have 13 classes, the next 14 classes. So, about 10 contact hours a week.
I have after school program (7th period) four days a week. 20,000 per class.
I may do a teachers class, one two hour class a week, but I don't know yet. 50k per class I think.
I will do other things later in the school year, like running the skit club, but that's for free.
that's it.

farrepatt · Joined: 27 Jan 2008

I work in a middle school.

Last semester, I had 18 hrs of regular classes, 2 hrs of teaching teachers, and six hours of extra classes. I worked an extra 30 minutes a day.

This semester, I have 22 hrs of regular classes, and my school just asked me to do 8 hrs of extra classes. I'm going to have to tell them I can't, but I'm worried they're not going to be very happy with that. It's a new school, and I think they really want to be known for the English extra classes they have; but 26 hrs last term was a drain, I'm not looking forward to 28, so I'll wriggle out of it if I can.

My husband made a good point last night: if I agree to teach 30 hrs a week, they will expect the teacher that comes after me to teach 30 hrs a week, and I really don't want to do that to that person.

poet13 · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject:

If you agree to it now, you can also never go back and do less....

You can always use the health argument. Tell them that last year working so many hours made your "health go down"...

R. S. Refugee · Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Location: Shangra La, ROK

cruisemonkey · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:08 pm Post subject:

I don't do overtime... my free time is worth more to me than the money.

poet13 · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:13 pm Post subject:

I am teaching at a Private/public middle school.

The after school program is separate from regular classes, and sponsored and paid for for any teacher who teaches those classes.

I am sure that someday I will have more regular classes. I'm not going to complain. This year I happen to be very lucky. I have a reputation in my town for going out of my way for others (burning buildings and an exploding gas can storage facility at 3am come to mind), I treat people very well, and they in turn look out for me. They know my family moved here late last year, that my wife is pregnant, and they are giving me as much freedom to be with them as possible.

Human nature is funny. If you feed a man shit for a month, he will complain bitterly that his food tastes like shit. In the second month, if you feed him rancid pork, he will thank you. In the third month, if you give him filet, he will say the pork tasted like *beep*. We are never satisfied, and that, for both good and bad, is our nature.