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Re: salaries
By:Al
In Response To: salaries (darren)

I Agree wholeheartedly...

I was in China 2 years ago making 12,000 rmb a month for 20 hours a week. I had a free apartment and a maid.

Now I live and teach in Thailand. Thailand is hands down a cleaner, more friendly, more beautiful country with a much more relaxed work environment. The catch is, the salary here is about half as much as I WAS making in China. I pull down the equivalent of about 6200 rmb / month here. That appears to be well above the going wage in China now however. Why would I leave the paradise that is Thailand to go back to the industrial wasteland that is China for less money??

If Salaries continue to go down, qualified individuals (read: people with experience, a degree, a teaching certification, etc.) are going to stay where they are instead of going to China to teach.

The gap will be filled,at the expense of the Chinese learner, by people with poor self value like the posters above who are happy to take whatever they can get.

You get what you pay for. Now instead of just exporting cheap junk, it seems the Chinese have decided to import cheap junk as well.

A Pity that...

-A


Messages In This Thread

salaries -- darren
Re: salaries -- Al
Salary Whining is a real pain! -- John
So why are you in China, then?! -- Cecilea Meyer
Do you love yourself ? -- ESL foreign teacher
I agree with you ! -- Mariam
don't be silly *Link* -- Michael Curry

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