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Post by Raoul Duke on Apr 24, 2005 14:30:34 GMT 7
<I've posted this in a few Shanghai and ESL sites. You will indeed be working for me. It's really meant for people already in this area...there's no relocation or moving assistance at all and will likely begin as a decent-paying freelance/part-time gig. If you have hotel, restaurant, or related experience, I may have one pretty sweet 1-year-contract job that would be 12 hours a week and pay like a full-time job. PM me if interested...>
We are an American company specializing in training and assessment for business, industry, IT, banks, and hotels. We are expanding rapidly and expect to have openings coming soon. All students are adults and the teaching experiences are fantastic! We're currently seeking part-time teachers in the Suzhou area- Shanghai may be OK if you are willing to travel. You must have a university degree, teaching experience with references, and be a native speaker of English from the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland, or South Africa. Education and/or experience in business, industry, technology, or hospitality strongly preferred. May lead to full-time work- the more versatile and flexible you are, the more hours we can give you! We pay a competitive hourly rate; some travel compensation possible. Please send resume for more details.
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Post by Dragonsaver on Jun 9, 2005 11:16:41 GMT 7
Raoul
Exactly where are you located? Tried to find Suzhou on a map but was unsuccessful. I am interested in the position we discussed, but would like to find a university or technical school close to you so I can work at both.
Mary
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jun 9, 2005 11:38:53 GMT 7
Suzhou is in southern Jiangsu province. It's a little west of Shanghai.
Nice town (see the Party Pictures!) and a number of unis here. Suzhou University seems to be pretty well regarded...
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Post by acjade on Jun 9, 2005 12:33:06 GMT 7
Raoul,
can you tell me more? Sounds like a good gig.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jun 10, 2005 0:38:00 GMT 7
Sure. But not sure what you want to know. I prefer to confine specifics on my company to private messages... The hotel gig is taken. It got cut down to part-time and I'm teaching the bastard myself. I'm having a GREAT time with it and I like hotels a lot. As I pointed out elsewhere, hotels are where all the prettiest girls and the western-trained pastry chefs are working.  I will have more part-time gigs coming soon and could eventually lead to one or more full-time slots. Near-term, the jobs will be in high-tech manufacturing and office environments but every 5-star hotel chain in the world is coming to Suzhou... For the tech jobs, some demonstrable knowledge/education/experience with electronics, semiconductors, computers, mechanical systems, manufacturing, etc. will be most useful although there may be a bit for chops in Business Communications or Finance/Accounting/Management. There may also be all kinds of openings in Shanghai, and elsewhere coming soon. I can connect you to these. |
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Post by Lager on Jun 10, 2005 17:02:04 GMT 7
I may be crazy (almost certainly in fact) but I find the job market tight.
Be that as it may my (perhaps) present school hires anyone available to do English corners at 100 a pop. Some are apparently doing several a week. Almost doubling their public school salary.
And as Raoul does I don't like to say where I work so PM me if you want this valuable info. Quite honestly I wish I had known this a bit sooner.
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Post by con's fly is open on Jun 10, 2005 18:11:10 GMT 7
Congrats on the superbarfly milestone, lager! I'd buy ya one, but I think the bar can pony up this once.
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Post by Hamish on Jun 10, 2005 18:31:48 GMT 7
SCREW THAT!
Dis is a strickly fo' profit deal.
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Post by con's fly is open on Jun 10, 2005 20:43:22 GMT 7
SCREW THAT! Dis is a strickly fo' profit deal. Reckless words, Mr. 982  |
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jun 10, 2005 21:36:17 GMT 7
100 for an EC (or an hour of anything else, for that matter) is an insult in Shanghai. Especially if you're spending 40 of it on a taxi. That's where I parted ways with this company...I wanted 150 (a lot cheaper than my usual rate) so they hired me until they found someone to do it for 100. Then they dumped me.
The pathetic fools. I am the KING of English Corner.
Nice perk of my company now. 2 of the 3 5-star hotels in Suzhou are my clients...we're in hot pursuit of the third. One approached me about doing an EC for them. They wanted Friday afternoons which are a pretty dead time for me anyway. When they asked how much, I told them I'd do it for cab fare and dinner.
Every other week I go there and sit in the bar with a group mostly comprised of rather fetching young ladies. We talk for 1-1.5 hours about their choice of topics, usually love and romance and the closely-related concept of apartments. Afterwards I enjoy a smoke and finish my drink, then go up to the western buffet.
Buffet dinners in 5-star Chinese hotels run up to 200 RMB per person. China has only one real school of Western cuisine, and it's just up the road in Nanjing. The western food here is up to western standards.
Tonight we had (mostly in small 2-3 bite samples) a big green salad topped with bacon bits, roasted peppers, anchovies, and big sheets of parmesan cheese shaved fresh from a huge wheel of the stuff. On the side were oysters Rockefeller, roast potato salad, pasta salad, cold roast chicken breast with marinated morel mushrooms. From the charcoal grill outside, filet steak slices the color and texture of strawberry ice cream, spicy italian sausages, and prawns longer than my hand. Then a sampling of terribly fresh tuna and salmon sashimi, including the tuna that's coated with marmelade and cajun spices and blackened on the very outside, served with soy sauce and pickled ginger and tubes of real wasabi from Japan that will cure your sinuses for a week. Main course bites included sauteed grouper in lemon butter, rare roast beef, lasagna, salami pizza, spiced chicken mousse patties, marinated asparagus. All comes with an assortment of fresh European breads of every description. Dessert was bites of chocolate swirl cheesecake, tiramisu, apfelstrudel, 12-layer tortes, flan, other things I can't name, and fresh yellow watermelon and lychees.
This menu is significantly different every time. And I sampled less than half of the choices.
As I ate I sat in a nice dining room and watched the rain pound up a mist on JingJi Lake. The very flower of Suzhou womanhood attended my every need save one, unfortunately. The chefs, most of whom have been my students, kept bringing me cans of cold Qingdao and Heineken. If I looked up I saw a glass-fronted balcony to the floor above, where carefully chosen beauties in qi pao strolled along in front of the hotel's gourmet Chinese restaurant. (It may take a minute for the implications of "upstairs", "glass-fronted balcony", and "qi pao" to settle in... On a clear day you can see Alcatraz!)
So, am I getting paid for an English Corner, or what?
Only trouble is that the hotel wants me to go from every two weeks to every week. Meanwhile our other 5-star hotel client is talking to me about the same deal. So whoever hires on for my classes as they open may find themselves having to take on this onorous burden once or twice a month.
Life is tough.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jun 10, 2005 21:51:00 GMT 7
Lager, congrats. The next drinks are on me. Not the bar and ol' skinflint up there, but me.
Mr. N, Hamish is a Brain. Plus he owns a share of the whole bar. Post count never even enters his mind, if he has one.
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jun 10, 2005 22:00:36 GMT 7
What did I say? I don't remember anything about criticising Hamish's post count?
It doesn't seem the sort of thing I would say. Except about George's padding, I mean.
Just checked, think you mean Con, my friend.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jun 10, 2005 22:06:56 GMT 7
Sorry! Chiding intended for Con. And George's post padding certainly sucks ass. |
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Post by con's fly is open on Jun 10, 2005 22:08:15 GMT 7
Nobby, I have no idea what you're talking about. Let's get back to the subject, you lousy hijacker.  |
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Post by con's fly is open on Jun 10, 2005 22:10:14 GMT 7
I believe we were discussing some plum jobs for which I have no qualifications, no experience and no skills. We were NOT discussing who said what, or padding posts.  |
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jun 10, 2005 22:20:20 GMT 7
Ahem. SCREW THAT! Dis is a strickly fo' profit deal. Reckless words, Mr. 982 |
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Post by con's fly is open on Jun 10, 2005 22:23:40 GMT 7
Prick.
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jun 10, 2005 22:30:35 GMT 7
Sorry, Con, just a reality check. Nothing that need bother you .......
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Post by con's fly is open on Jun 10, 2005 22:49:22 GMT 7
Aw, reality this, the pair of you.  |
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jun 10, 2005 22:55:52 GMT 7
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jun 10, 2005 22:59:45 GMT 7
Don't move, or this here pair of safety scissors will be used to...... um don't move or the ..... m'kay it, let them jump out, it is only 10,000 feet
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Post by Dragonsaver on Jun 11, 2005 3:37:15 GMT 7
Raoul That menu you listed could be a total disaster, if one was trying to maintain or achieve a 'figure'.  I was hoping to lose weight in China.  I was speaking with an acupuncturist today about coming to China. She is phoning one of her friends in Shanghai for me. This looks like the fun is about to begin. I spoke with a former tenant (he is a new Canadian from southern China). He is going to write a letter of reference for me since I helped him with his english during his 1st year in Canada. I will also get a letter from a young gentleman from Pakistan who I also helped. |
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Post by George61 on Jun 11, 2005 6:12:36 GMT 7
Now, there's food for thought!
What's all this rubbish about post-padding? I thought we had moved on!
Congrats, Lager. You are now among the elite!!
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gengrant
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Hao, Bu Hao?
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Post by gengrant on Jun 11, 2005 9:17:01 GMT 7
I second that emotion... (another reason to pad my postings too)...  |
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jun 11, 2005 13:26:09 GMT 7
DS, if you cook at home you can lose weight pretty easily. If you eat in restaurants you will most likely gain.
Unfortunately I've been eating in restaurants pretty exclusively for nearly a year now.
I'm glad the western buffet only happens twice a month. But after a couple weeks of eating neighborhood Chinese every day, an encounter with some comfort food is a marvellous thing.
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I was hoping to lose weight in China. 
