Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Debito says "I want my country back"! Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 09:03:01 -0600 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <41B32325.8050505@yahoo.com> References: <0im2r0t0gfu91ghms039s5oft5ef6oe132@4ax.com> <1goajdh.1r3tp62360ngxN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> <0fi3r0p4qjbha1j2dfi3hn3jmj0piktr5i@4ax.com> <41B1D309.2010409@yahoo.com> <41B25BAC.9020604@yahoo.com> <31fdrkF3a85jrU1@individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net BDxDteca9V/KRfdAvtNU0Ayzr5dqHsmV9KscKSFs3/D64ieioe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: ja,en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:23183 Kevin Gowen wrote: > John W. wrote: > >> Michael Cash wrote: >> >>> >>> Nope, they were clearly talking about people who were in the >>> trenches. >>> >>> Something to do with longevity pay raises. >>> >> How can a person have so little ambition? I could probably teach >> corporate classes, the only eikaiwa job I truly enjoyed (and that >> was the bulk of my work, thankfully), for a few years at most. > > > How much was it paying when you did it? I did it for about a year in > 2000-2001 and I think I was starting at 4,100 yen/hour. I only > taught a few 2-3 hour classes a week, but I think there were some > instructors that did it as their only job. > I was salaried at 234,000 per month, with a bonus at the end of the year. But I only worked 20 hours a week, and my travel wasn't too bad. Most people had at least one other job; one guy taught public school by day and taught corporate classes at night and made a killing. This was 1993-95. John W.