That's the spirit.

Seems the common thing for schools here to hold at least a couple weeks of your money, but it's completely illegal.

Not that it bothers them.

I do recall seeing them advertising here with the offer of an above reasonable wage. I tagged it as too good to be true.

This is complete BS! how can they get away with it? we must stand strong against them. My company waits to pay until the 10th of each month so if you ever want to quit they can just not pay you for those 10 days if they want. Totally illegal, these schools can fire you any day they want but if we want to leave we owe them money? ? This contract crap is ridiculous, whatever happend to just working, getting paid for your work, and if you quit you quit, no hard feelings on either side.

My company pays its Chinese employees on the last day of the month for the previous month's work--in other words there's a month's lag.

That's actually pretty common here.

Beijing is easy. Too many agents and work.

Smaller centers is cool once you get out there.

I think u will be OK. Just find an effective way to meet students or parents.

Oh, I don't think it's right.

But it is common here, and I'm pretty sure it's legal.

I once set about changing the policy, but management complained like hell. Meanwhile, very few employees seem to have a problem with it.

Unless you want to be regarded as a whore for hire, there are just 2 simple responses (and a few more crude ones!):
1. That's not acceptable
2. There's no such thing as a free lunch!

Either the seller or the buyer is in control. Choose which one you want to be.

Yeah sure you can put an ad in.

But you might find you get more attention than you bargained for. Maybe just put your email address not ur ph number and screen the replies.

I've been interested in doing this. I know of a couple of people who would want me tutoring them but they're just old students of mine when I was teaching.

I don't really know how to go about finding people who need and English tutor, just many many people saying "u teach me english i teach u chinese k?"

There are so many ads for it online (and stupidly low prices too) so that can't be the way. Perhaps knowing one person and asking if they know anyone else who needs... I don't know...

tl;dr How do you find your students? Also, how much do you charge?

PM me please, I rarely check this forum. You don't accept PM's

The Guy who moderates on here Huang Chu, is Johnson Zhang, alias **EDITED - Once again, show proof, before you show names. HuanChu**. I have been to the office, its located in an FAO office of a public school just 5 minutes from the Beijing South station, south west ring where they operate out of.
He has everyone fooled on here that he is fighting this battle against zhang and his crew, when he is the one who is behind it....he had you all fooled. Says he graduated fro m Glasgow University, they have never heard of him. They have this hair brained idea of bringing nurses from sichuan to Beijing to study for the NYCLEX American Nursing exam....dream on, dream on..this english guy, disguised as whoever he is, gets the teachers for Johnson, and this guy is actually Johnson himself, and works with a woman called angela. As for Danny Liu, he does send abusive mails and makes abusive obscene calls, as well as his girl friend, I was receiving anything from up to 50 in one day, just non stop abuse.
Many posters have said never to send zhang anything as he uses/misuses the information.
Have you never ever thought it strange how johnson zhang has direct contact with Huang chu on here? its because they are one and the same person, and hes not chinese, but hes from the UK, AND HE HAS HAD YOU ALL FOOLED, THEY ARE ALL INVOLVED IN ONE VERY BIG ELEABORATE SCAM...............If they were genuine and bonified, they would never need to use a whole variety of telephone numbers and email addresses, this guy wants to make money, and then disappear, vaporize and not get caught.

The editor, J white, the beijinger editor will be sought for questioning on this scam, and how one of his staff was using this very forum to do it in....very clever, very well sought out device and scam....but its over.
j.white@truerun.com

Why would you work for a company (Hampson) that say they will pay you 200rmb an hour....a 100 min hour... I said wait a minute that's more than 2 teaching hours so you mean 100/hr!

Response from Hampson: I don't think you are suitable!

My reply: yes I'm white and not fresh off the boat!

Really any company that advertises the same position so often for so long and pays that ; there has to be a message.

I didn't get as far as a deposit!
The last time a company mentioned a deposit I told them 10,000 to me for their good behaviour. I didn't start there either.

Deposit/payment retention= You can guarantee I am going to screw you sooner or later.

WISE UP IF THEY PAY PEANUTS THEY ARE GOING TO TREAT YOU LIKE A MONKEY!

The best advice so far Jack.