Still, you makes your choice and takes your chance! Gainful employment in China beats loafing around on the dole in the west.

Not disputing what you say, nor did I mean to imply in any way that you have a fake degree.

Gainful employment in China (in the right job, in a city/town where you feel comfortable) is better than being on the dole in the west. But not at some TC or kindergarten where you are a slave to a boss who is out to maximise profits.

Happy 2013,
San Migs

Very well said, San Mig, a well reasoned good proviso.

I didn't read from what you said that you suggested Foxy poster has a fake degree, I am sure he hasn't, he writes too well. But it wouldn't matter if he had, because you don't need a degree to teach oral English, you only need to be a Native born English speaker; and you can even sound like a yokel from Devonshire, because students should get to learn that not all native speakers speak in the same accent. That Chinese student taught by Devonshire yokel will be able to understand the local people when he goes to Devon to sorce pigs ears for the Chinese consumer(they are buying a lot of British pigs ears from the UK I read on the Internet.)