I’m Worried I will Lose My Job. I Am Not Worried I Will Be Unemployed.

China is changing the rules and upping their game or just making it more difficult. My boss won't let me go but he will make me work when I don;t want to.

The other day my manager sat me down for a little impromptu meeting. He told me that the Education Bureau of Dalian is changing the rules for expat teachers. Normally a company needs special permission to hire foreigners, so getting such a permit is difficult enough in its self, at this point in China’s development not even bribes or guan xi will get you the required permits.

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He told me they will no longer allow one company to sends teachers to many public schools. See I work for a private company but they send me to several public schools weekly. No single public school can afford a monthly salary of foreign teachers, well, only a couple. So they share us. I go to different schools daily, teaching one lesson one class per week per school.

Now the rule is one teacher per school!

This really puts my job in limbo unless the few companies can convince the Dalian School Board to keep things as they are. My manager says the school board doesn’t want to organize this anymore and will allow individual schools to hire their own teachers, which 99% could not afford to do that solo.

Honestly when I am teaching in the school I am probably the highest paid person in the school, above the head master probably. No Joke, anyone teaching ESL in China will agree to this.

This is not a private school or training centre where teachers make a lot more. To be honest, I don’t make as much as most other teachers because I chose a public school salary. BUT I have the schedule in this city, 8am to 2:30pm Mon – Fri all holidays paid and weekends off. Any other work I do outside of those hours is sweet overtime VIP type shyte gold.

I am not worried I will be out of a job. I worry I will be out of my Sweet Kick Ass Schedule!!! The freedoms I have in China outweigh the freedoms I had in Canada, but I am not Chinese, the money I make here is great, as long as it stays here. I have more financial freedom in China then I ever did in Canada for a comparable workload. Why do you think we English teachers come with one year in mind and stay several years or even more than a decade? THE MONEY AND THE LIFE. I keep offering it to ya’ll but you’re too skeptical. I understand.

If I have to change jobs; I’m changing cities.
I love Dalian, it’s an amazing city. I have met so many wonderful people here and I would miss it.