Topic: news How to Successfully Switch ESL Jobs in China

No it's not easy at all to be a teacher in China. You learn to love it, but it's hard at the beginning. This beginning to some teachers, including myself it make take from 6 months to 1 year to adapt to Culture, to a different sort of understanding Education, teaching, values and priorities in life. If a teacher looks down on you, and brags about his salary, he must be a miserable person. You can simply pity him. No way to brag about money at all. Why? Because, for dedicated teachers, the first satisfaction comes out of their own job. Seeing students how they learn and enjoy English....that, money can't buy. Likewise, for a same teacher, if the students don't learn, for many reasons, the unhappiness is this much that there is no money to compensate the frustration. If you are a teacher, and I believe you are you know happiness in your job as well as bitterness. There is much more bitterness in a life a teacher than happiness. So, how would money pay back for all the struggle and burden a teacher bears in his heart when he is responsible with what he does? I repeat, the only satisfaction comes out of the simple fact that kids learn what they are taught. Period. Do you really want to be a teacher? Are you happy being a teacher? I hope you do, otherwise there is no reason to keep teaching. Sometime, working in the McDonald or else where you have less doubt it provides more happiness than as a teacher. I believe from my heart that being a teacher is a call, an inner call and once you follow this path, you assume the risk because you love teaching. There are few people who are born to be teachers, there are many who are working hard to be a best teacher, and generally, there are teachers because they don't know what else to do in life. I am a foreigner, teaching English in China and I struggle to be a best teacher. It is not the fault of the foreign teacher that he is paid more than his fellow ones. I wish any Chinese teacher to get the double or triple or the same salary as a foreigner does. Maybe that in time will change. Maybe you Chinese people should do something about it, not complain about how much we are paid.