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Pay: 20,000 RMB per month.
Hours at work per week: 40.
Teaching hours per work: 18.
Office hours: 22. (M-F 9-5, no leaving w/o permission, even to go to other places on campus.)
Possible extra work assigned with no extra pay.
Nine days off for Chinese New Year.
Eighteen days off in the summer.
Usual two golden week holidays.
Expected to work if sick (unless hospitalized).
If sick, either go to school clinic or hospital 45 minutes away.
School 45 minutes away from city center, about 30 minutes away from nearest suburb.
Either live in student dormitory for 50-100 RMB a night (non-reimbursable), or in an on-campus apartment, stone’s throw (literally) from the boys’ dorm. Rate: 2,400-2,800 a month (non-reimbursable). Third possibility: Rent your own apartment in town, hopefully on the school shuttle line, and have a commute each morning.
Bus from city to school stops at 9:00 each night. Taxi from city center to school: About 100 RMB.
Nearest supermarket: 20 minute bus ride away.
During tour of school, two different employees asked me if I went to church on Sunday (?!?).