Lol well yeah it does sound very annoying, and i'm highly impatient and too easily stressed out so I definitely wouldn't cope. It sounds better about the prices though and the better hostel, so it looks like it will have its advantages and you seem to have some more avenues available so no point giving up hope just let. Your luck might change It would bother me for a while but i'd just do a six-week intensive course or something and then i'd usually be alright... languages are easy
Miming, shaking and nodding the head, easy to read maps, occasional extremely helpful Chinese people,an English-Chinese dictionary, and a complete unwillingness to back down helps deal with the language barrier.
Yeah, where there's a will there's a way and languages are no exception. For somebody that's not overly gifted with languages, moving to somewhere that speaks chinese definitely cannot be easy but it can be done. I'll always get my point across somehow... i'm too stubborn not to lol
Still no answer from the company. I even sent them an e-mail saying I'd take the independent rental option, rather then getting an apartment through them. So after the computer boots me off in a few minutes, I'm heading back to my room, grabbing phone numbers and phoning other companies. I haven't signed a contract yet, so if I get a better deal, or a faster response with someone else, I'm taking off. I love uncertainity.
Hehe, it does seem to offer you a kind of freedom. I hope you get things sorted Dom. Keep us updated.
Still haven't gotten an answer. Although, I have finally recieved an e-mail from the guy telling me he's phoning the center again tonight. So hopefully tomorrow will give me an answer.
Well if it doesn't I can have an interview with another school tomorrow. I just like the contract with this one, so I don't want to lose it, because they can't get their act together. Edit: Of course if they can't get their act together I probably don't want the job. So hopefully they'll have everything worked out tomorrow.
Update: Still no bloody news. So I sent an e-mail telling my contact that I have an offer from another school. He has until Saturday at 4pm to tell me when the job starts. This is a lie of course. But I can get some crappy job with no securitym but at least a paycheque in Beijing quickly. If I won't be leaving in a day or two. If they can't give me a firm answer by then, I don't want to work with them. Wish me luck.
I sent out my resumes. And I got a response from one already. So I probably have an interview tomorrow with a school outside of Shanghai. They wanted to know if I was still interested, and needed somethings clarified. If they like me I get to start on September 1. I haven't seen the contract, but its a government school, not a private one. Which generally means they'll screw around less. Plus this school contacted me only a few hours after I e-mailed them. So good on them. I also sent out resumes to other places, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Anyways I'll continue keeping you updated on the trials and tribulations of Job Hunting In China.
Um......Wow. I'd finally started to get really worried about jobs. Nobody was calling back to me, and a lot of my e-mails weren't getting through. So I sent out about 5 resumes today. I just checked my e-mail, two of the places had responded. One of them, a company, sent me three e-mails with different jobs each time. I now have my choice of 5 jobs. Ranging from university teacher, to kindergarten teacher. I just have to say I accept. Actually in the case of the Kindergarten job, they just said we can't wait to see in five days. I sent them back a message asking to see a contract, and in the case of the company, details. So um...I guess I'm employed. Crap.
One can be both delighted and disappointed at the same time. Delighted for the stability and the excitement of the new job, and disappointed that the freedom and adventure of wandering is coming to a close (for example).
Actually the "crap" was the fact that after nothing, I suddenly had these offers. And so quickly after sending out those resumes. With the Kindergarten job, they didn't even have time to call my references, and they want to let me teach little kids that quickly. It seems kind of nuts.
I'm a university teacher now. FEAR MY WRATH!!!! I took the job in Nanjing. The higher paying school in Shanghai thought they could do better, and I didn't want to teach teenagers. So hurray, I'm gainfully employed. And I as per the contract I'll have internet and a free computer at my new apartment. So I can write again. HUZZAH!!!
Oh dear God... Dom. Teaching university. In China. Now I'm certain that is one of the harbingers of the apocalypse Oh, and huzzah indeed!
yay Domo congratualtions. Hope you will still have time to kick around the site every once in awhile.
When you’re finished in Shanghai, come to Australia, there is a crazy shortage of teachers; chances are you’d be employed within the minute and be inundated with perks and monthly pay bonuses.
