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After my travels this winter break, I have decided I need to get a new job next year. other cites in China are just a lot more fun than Xin Xiang. The novelty is starting to wear off and I realise that it’s just a dirty little city in the middle of Henan. Not that I regret coming here, it’s been a good experiance, just time to move on. I also realised that pretty much everywhere you go, you gonna get a “real” chinese experiance, even Shang Hai was much less westernised than I thought it would be. My school has also giving me no end of troubles, fomr a contract descrepency between the contract I saw in america and the one I signed in china (note to self, get better at reading contrarcts), to them stealing my money from my private lessons, to them giving me class at fucking 8:00 on Saturday morning, it’s time to go.
So the question is where to go. ShangHai shines the brightest, with the promise of being able to tell my awed grand children stories about up and coming ShangHai in the ’00’s (how do you say that out loud? double O, ‘aught’s?), My visit to john made hangzhou another attractive baubel, life’s a little slower there, the women were cute, and there is a strong chinese blog presence in the area. Then there is Beijing, which seemed to me slightly more cultured, if not more cosmopolitan, than Shanghai. Then there are places I havn;t even visited, Dalian and Qingdao with their promises of crystal clear water and beer, I’ve heard good things about xiamen, but I can’t find it on a map, and hey it’d be cool to work in Yunnan.
So, to start looking for a job I headed over to daves esl cafe to check out the job postings, some useful stuff, but I havn’t made my mind up about anything. Then I go over to the bulliten board and I have two things to say. Most people there are whinny bitches.
One common comment: “China isn’t cheap” What the fuck are they talking about? Even if I lived in shanghai and went out every night there is no way I would be paying as much as would in the states. If anyone tells you china isn’t cheap he is a whining pussy who wouldn’t be happy if we was bill gate’s trophy wife and shouldn’t have come to china if he dosn’t like eating Chinese food.
Second common comment: “Don’t be satisfied for anything under 5000 rmb and even if you get that you are still getting screwed” Well if getting screwed is getting 5000 a month, then my current salary situation can only be described by what happens in certain japanese underground animated porn. Is this true? Is it easy to find 5000 kaui jobs with housing, 14 hours of teaching and airfare? i hope so that’d be good enough for me. I’d rather have less hours, a low salary and a good living condition.
Why not use my china blog gaunxi, any of you out there have any suggestions for me? I’m open to anything, I don’t got to teach, though I don’t want to work 9-5. II’m also looking for something to do this summer, anybody know anygood summer prgrams? Any help id greatly appreciated.
update I’ve been reading more of the china jobs thread at eslcafe and there are all these horror stories, is this common or are these people just the slightly insane anal retentive types who seem to be the ajority on most message borads on the internet? it’s getting me down on teachin gin china in general…