Posts made in October 19th, 2008
Job Interview on a Sunday
Hubby went to the Formula1 race today. He did invite me to go with him months ago but I declined. It is not my thing and I refuse to spend that much for a ticket to something which I am not really interested in. So I told to just go with some of his colleagues and make it like a boys’ day out.
He and his colleagues left early this morning because they do not like to be caught up with the crowd. I stayed in bed and tried to enjoy my long Sunday morning sleep but I was not very successful because I got a call at around 9:00 am.
The caller was Mr. Kane.
We agreed to meet at 1:30 pm to talk about a possible teaching job for me. I showed up early and the place was not too far from where I live so I thought that it would be very convenient for me to work there. After a few minutes of small talk, he said that I have a pure accent and he said that that is something which is not very common to Filipinos. He said that he met a lot of Filipino applicants already and most of these applicants disappointed him (raised my eyebrows when he said that). So anyway, he said that the students will certainly like me because I speak good English and I have a face value (ahem!).
Here’s what he offers. 46 hours each month of teaching and 3500RMB of salary. That’s not a very high salary but because I like to teach, the salary doesn’t matter to me that much. I would have really accepted it if the classes were in the morning. Too bad. The classes are scattered between 4:00 to 8:00 pm and the schedule is where the problem is. I simply cannot give my German course up which is, by the way, in a school located on the other side of the city. My German course runs from 1:30 to 5:30 pm from Monday to Friday and after a 4 hour long class, all I want is just to be home.
Sigh* When can I teach?
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