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cucumber
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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 Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 12:30 am Post subject: Teaching Adults - Finding a Job |
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I'm looking for a job teaching adults and having a really hard time finding anything decent. Firstly, there just aren't many full time adult teaching jobs on the various job boards that I check, and most of the ones I do see are terrible (start at 6 AM, finish at 10 PM, salary of 2.1 million, etc). I know split shifts are the standard, but there has to be SOME advantage (good location, pay, hours) for me to consider it.
I've applied to the handful of decent ones I've found, but the recruiters always say it's no longer available and offer me some job teaching kindergarteners in a rice field.
I have a CELTA, 2 years of experience teaching kids in Korea, and 8 months experience teaching adults in China (couldn't take it anymore and came back to Korea - I do have a good letter of reference from my employer, though).
Am I being too picky?
Did I mess up badly by not finishing my contract in China?
Do you know of a good resource for finding adult teaching jobs? |
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YTMND
Joined: 16 Jan 2012
Location: You're the man now dog!!
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 12:46 am Post subject: |
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You are putting the horse before the cart.
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| Do you know of a good resource for finding adult teaching jobs? |
I can't comment without referencing your first sentence which I put second because that is the order of importance. LEARN TO TEACH ADULTS, THEN CHOOSE SCHEDULE. Make sense? Become qualified, then get job. Now, let's move on.
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| Did I mess up badly by not finishing my contract in China? |
It shouldn't matter. Were you teaching adults before? I don't understand this comment. You look at the split shifts and think they are bad. All you have to compare it with is China and your hometown? Really? Since 2008? You haven't been enlightened?
When I went to my first hagwon in Korea, I had a split shift schedule. However, it meant NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. I taught kids in the morning, sometimes went home for lunch and taught kids in the afternoon.
Then, I got an adult student. I visited different cities like Daegu. He drove and paid for meals, introduced me to his family. This was a split shift that was/is GOOD.
Chinese don't really do this. I have never been taken out by a Chinese person like I have with Koreans and Japanese. Chinese assume you will get what you want, they get what they want. Everyone shares/uses the same drinking jug. In China, you take "your" jug to your apartment but there is no machine to put it in. That's the difference.
In Korea, your Korean buddy will ask, "What do you want?" You will answer, and they will say, "No, you can't have that. Try this Korean____."
At first, it will be really really good or it will be really really bad. Flip of the coin. However, the point is you will get something you like. All on this "split shift" scenario. Then, in Korea and Japan, you will start liking the foods there you didn't like at first. In China, it's more black an white. Either you do or you don't.
If you want to lock yourself up in a room from 9am-5pm and then go home and eat McDonald's food you can do that in your home country I am sure.
Don't take this long hours seriously in contracts. They are only HOURS OF AVAILABILITY. It doesn't mean you have to physically be there.
Adult jobs are the best if you can meet adults who will take you out and do stuff. Korea isn't China where you work 6 days and get no one inviting you. In fact, if you pour your own "soju" (baijiu) it means you have no friends. You pour for your friend. In China, you just get your baijiu or jinjiu and go home. They have those plastic tables, but no one really comes up to talk to you like in Korea. |
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