Posted in Shenzhen forum
Hi, my name is Aaron Morber from the US and I moving to shenzhen at the end of this month., I am new to this group. I have a question for everyone in the group. I have been looking for english teaching positon in shenzhen and I recently thought I had a job teaching in nanshan. However, at the last mintute they changed their mind. So now , I have to find another job. Is there any out there who knows of any good schools or language centers to contact besides EF, Wall Street, English Meten, and New Oreintal. Any advice or help that you could offer me would be deeply appreciated . Thank you. btw , I will also be wanting to learn mandarin and cantonese, so if there is anyone who is interested in language exchange, please let me know
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Greetings
posted by Abdul Shakoor in Shenzhen forum
Hi Aaron,
Hope you are well and enjoying ur stay at SZ. I am also planning to relocate to SZ within a month, but i dont know anything about Shenzhen. Hows are the living conditions there, hows the living cost. I will be looking to live in longgang(bantian), for how much one can get a good flat(1BR, or 2BR). Is 20000 YUAN per month enough to live and save something in shenzhen.
thanks in advance.....regards,
Abdul.
Hey Andrew nice to hear from you
posted by Deleted user in Shenzhen forum
Hello Andrew how are you these days? Yes, I am in Shenzhen.. I have been here for almost two months. My qq number is 1409198402.
Still in Shenzhen?
posted by Andrew Yu in Shenzhen forum
Hi My friend,
Are you still in Shenzhen? Got a QQ ? Haha
Let me know if you have a QQ account. We can chat through QQ.
Regards
Andrew
hey man how are you
posted by Deleted user in Shenzhen forum
that would be fine. I just moved to Xi Xang so I am not too far from Nanshan now.. I do have some advice for you. I learned this. The best way to find a good job, is not to look for a job. Networking is the way to go. Find a good reliable Chinese friend who is honest, reliable, and dependable. Than ask him or her to go directly to the schools, private training centers, and contact them directly for you. Or maybe you can do this yourself. Also try to find a listing of some schools in your area, or training centers on the interenet. I think there are some websites that lists these for you, but since I can not read chinese they are no good to me. Next, try to find part time jobs, at least three of them. Find a kindergarten or primary school in the day time morning. They may pay you around 5000 to 7000, but you are only there for three hours, and you do not have to stay there all day. Then try to find a training center that will let you work from 5 to 9. maybe tues thru friday, and than try to find another one that will let you work on sate or sun for them, or you can try to find some private students to teach at night or on the weekends. I do not recommend teaching 2 to 3 yr olds, since like a big hastle. If you do, charge them 200 an hour for just one, cause its so much trouble. Stay away from agents, they make very high commissions, and they are not honest. They will never tell you how much they are really making off you. Maybe the best way for you to find the private students is too find some Chinese teacher assistants become friends with them, and ask them to find some parents and students at their schools to see if they want private tutoring. Best to find ones that work at the rich schools if you can. Also can try this. Find about 10 really good websites for private tutoring. Many of them are in chinese so I can not use them. One more suggestion, if you can do this. Go out to the parks, and gardens and do open classes if you can. If you are not comfertable or think this is too risky than forget it. One more idea for you. If you can find some good websites like, youku.com, or if was not banned here in China, something like Youtube. You can actually make some live videos of yourself teaching classes, this will be good advertisiing for you. Many people will visit these websites. That is all I have now, remember never go through agents. And when you contact schools, or training centers, always ask them how much they will pay , and what day, and how many classes per week, what time, and try to talk to the other teachers who work there before you commit to signing a contract, they will tell you if the bosses are good or bad
Can you share more about the bad things of your teaching here?
posted by Andrew Yu in Shenzhen forum
Hi Aaron,
I am living in Shenzhen, Nanshan. You opened my thinking of how do you thinking of the agent or traning centers here. I am interesting to know. If you are still in Nanshan, never mind to drink some beer together. Thanks
Andrew
I dont need luck
posted by Deleted user in Shenzhen forum
Good luck, well thanks for your concern but I dont believe in luck, nor do I believe in it, but there is a God in Heaven who is soveirgn and will supply all my needs. Jesus is my shield and my provider.
Hey I just now seen your reply how are you
posted by Deleted user in Shenzhen forum
Hey I just now seen your reply, how have you been? Yes I have been living in Shenzhen for nine months now and I have had my stinch of it I am ready to pack up my things and leave here. The schools and training centers are very bad here. I am sorry if this offends you, but the agents are very bad too. If I told you all that has happend to me here, there would not be enough room to contain it all in this message, and you would be reading for hours. So what are you doing these days?
how are you?
posted by sara huang in Shenzhen forum
Hi Aaron,how are you?sorry for the later repaly.did you find the job in China now?
Hi, Pai thanks for replying to me. I am an english teacher who is interested in teaching in thialand
posted by Deleted user in Shenzhen forum
hi Pai Pai how are you. You are very pretty. nice picture. Pai where do you stay now? are you in thailand. I would love to come to Thailand and teach english. However, first I will go to china and than probally japan, but I am interested in thailand. I would love to learn thai and make some thai friends. I am surprised you wrote to me. if you want to chat with me you can add me to your msn. my msn account is [...], or you can find on me on yahoo, my yahoo account is [...], and my skype is Amorber76. Look forward to chatting with you. thank you for contacting me
