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Q: Underpaid job, small salary, poor perks.
-I'm noticing many job ads that ask for long hours and short holidays (like 30 hours a week) and 17 days off a year.
-At the same time you can get a uni job that pays 5k gives you months off, weekends off, no evening work, and about 18-22 hours a week.
-Remember uni jobs usually have no commute time to work either.
-So remember the job that pays less may offer a much higher hourly rate
-Don't take jobs that suck.
11 years 20 hours ago in Business & Jobs - China
Seems the education market is oversaturated with English teachers & the employer now has the upper hand. I work too hard for an int'l dept of a Chinese school, commuting a total of 3 hours a day, beat by the end of each day, go home & drink cheap beer while surfing the net. Staying out of the bars, trying to save money. Work-life balance way off kilter. Time to look around for something that allows more free time albeit less money. Wanna live to work, not work to live.
Ideal job: teach 15 hrs a week, M-F, between 1 & 4 PM. No office hours. Commute no longer than 15 mins. Settle for 6-10,000 in the pocket each month.
Ideas? Thanks.
manasyt:
I have that. I live far from downtown though, which sucks. (1.5 hr on the bus).
14 classes a week in 3 days (45 min each). 5 min bike ride to my classroom (I have my own, don't have to run around).
I do 3.5 hrs of tutoring on Saturday...That pays my whole month. My Uni salary goes in the bank.
Not everybody will get uni jobs. You have to look at availability etc., Some people can't be picky! You just have to get what you can get. Some people don't even have jobs!
don't ruin it for me. i love teachers who brag about their salaries but they have to rent an apartment, work 30-40 hours including mandatory office hours, promotional nonsense and deal with spoiled brats . haha
So is this another union thing again
Bye bye
please do not come again 
