I also know Bob and he's a friend of mine. He will defend himself if he feels he has to but, I think he's already shown that yet again, a bunch of bitter saddo's live in this forum.

As an ESL teacher myself I am fully aware of my job requirements, despite the BS the chinese school owners would have me believe. ESL schools are a bookshop, nothing more. It's all about selling books. Us (low lives) as you call it do a job here, nothing more. Some of you are no doubt retired (against your will) or should have been "put out to pasture" a long time ago...Sadly, we have the internet so some of you bitter old lonely buggers have a platform to troll on message boards on a daily basis. I wish you well, I wish you would find another outlet for your frustration.

Most of us are not English teachers, we just speak the language and play games with the kids and do the whole "white dancing monkey role" that pleases the kids and parents. I don't feel bad about my job at all, or what I do. How would you suggest I teach the word banana differently? My job is to make them say the word 50 plus times a lesson which I do, through games and the kids have fun doing so.

We're ESL teachers, we're not here to redo anything or change anything, just keep the kids happy so the parents buy another book. In terms of "proper education" that's not a job i'm qualified to do. I'm not teaching A level English to English people though am I! I'm playing games with kids and they learn English at the same time. What's the problem?

I sleep very well at at night, I earn a decent wage, have a free home and minimal bils so i'm doing very well thankyou. Did I mention I work weekends and have two nightclasses a week? ha ha I have lots of freetime and my only priority is trying to get a similar contract in another city next time.

Sorry if that boils your piss ha ha

p.s. for any future teachers looking to join SHANE, don't sign a 25 teaching hour contract, it's despicable. Also, publich holidays, they don't exist for private language mills. I only have to get up early 2 days a week. I have 4 office hours in the afternoon on a Friday, I hang out with the TA's so it's easy money.
That's why people like me and Bob have stuck it out. Because in the end, it's a comfortable life once you get past the 1st year.

I'm finding this forum more hilarious the more I continue to read. So much bitterness and anger. Ta for your indecisive pity, it's much appreciated. xx

Yeah, Xiao Bai is probably the most boring Chinese name that a foreigner can receive.

My English isn't as good as a uni graduate's but I think that's the point. China is so big that if the country wanted to recruit purely professional teachers they could never satisfy the demand. As a result, plebs like me are employed as we may not be professional but there is no substitute for a native speakers intuition. Regardless of how good a Chinese person's English level may be.

Well, if you are a native speaker, you should equally as fluent as any university graduate.

I have to ask, how does this bear any relation to the original post? It's perhaps relevant that you hang around with people who don't like teaching English as it gives us background information about yourself, but I really don't see how it relates to the original point.

Loads of foreign teachers don't actually like teaching, lol. I also hang around with people that dislike teaching English, many previously taught English, packed it in and moved onto other things.

A good post.

The brit guy I know doing it, does not even like teaching kids. He more or less admitted to me it is just easy money, but he dislikes the work, and that his wife is the driving force. His wife wants to go to the UK eventually, he does not, looming problems, she could take the money and flee and all his work and time will have been for nothing, it is better not to marry a chinese woman in her 30s or 40s....not unless she shows willing, financially. Good luck.