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Who's Your Daddy? · Joined: 30 May 2010 Location: Victoria, Canada.

Can you top this one?:

20 class hours per week
2 office hours per day, Monday to Friday
7 weeks vacation
kids camps
2.0 Million, 3K housing allowance
teaching hours 9am to 9pm (6pm to 9pm continuing education, no extra pay)

Beat that!

recessiontime · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:53 am Post subject:

you actually get paid less and work more than a person working at a lower level.

but...the prestige? Laughing

seonsengnimble · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 1:00 am Post subject:

I'd love to see the apartment you can rent for 3k a month. Cardboard box?

Who's Your Daddy? · Joined: 30 May 2010 Location: Victoria, Canada.

Oops, the housing allowance is 300K

A different uni conversation:

Them: Salary is x.
Me: But that's for a bachelors. I have a masters, so isn't it higher?
Them: Oh, yes, it's x+50,000won per month.

Wow a whole $50 for my two years work:)

BoholDiver · Joined: 03 Oct 2009 Location: Canada

Yeah, not very good. But better than many kids academies, and the opportunity to move up to a better uni after a year.

If I could have had this job in my 1st year in Korea without even a year of exp. I would have taken it. That's it.

jrwhite82 · Joined: 22 May 2010

Well it sounds like you will only be required to be there 7 hours a day. Not the full 12 hours from 9-9. Each day might have a different schedule where you might have a few hours in the middle where you can go home or do something else. Still, LOW pay for a Uni.

misher · Joined: 14 Oct 2008

I know plenty of people right now that are just coming over with master degrees that would take that job in a second.

bcjinseoul · Joined: 13 Jan 2010 Location: Seoul, Korea

Seems to me almost every college job I've seen this time around has 20 teaching hours a week (or more?) and 8 weeks vacation...many with 4-6. Certainly not the cae 2-3 years ago...

Who's Your Daddy? · Joined: 30 May 2010 Location: Victoria, Canada.

Skipperoo · Joined: 05 Jul 2010

soyoungmikey · Joined: 29 Jun 2009

If you take this job you are insane. That is way to little money to accept for the time you are working. This is one reason why salaries are dropping across the board in all places. Cause any idiot with a B.A. are accepting them, while qualified teachers with experience are getting low-balled. Good luck with this job.

Hyeon Een · Joined: 24 Jun 2005

It's not great for a uni job.

I would take it over a public school or hagwon job though. Seems to be similar pay and teaching hours to a public school, but with longer vacation and probably more freedom. The desk warming is limited to 2 hours a day too haha. I bet they don't make you stay there for precisely 2 hours 5 days a week either.

It would get some uni experience too which will be helpful if one wants to apply for a good uni job in the future.

Who's Your Daddy? · Joined: 30 May 2010 Location: Victoria, Canada.

Young FRANKenstein · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:41 am Post subject:

iwillteachyouenglish · Joined: 07 Jul 2010

The 7 weeks vacation time would be nice, but pay is not very good for all the student loans you likely have. Then again, the situation in USA is so horrible, I think the foreign teacher market will soon be flooded with hordes of Americans. I know companies are recruiting them in some major cities now and getting people who otherwise never would have considered doing this or figured it a scam.

I've thought about getting an Masters but the reason I dont is everyone is trying to be so cheap nowdays, I just dont think Id ever recover the costs.