Where I am, most FEs get 50 per hour. I won't get out of bed for less than 100, and going to bump it up next offer, which makes me pretty outrageous in this area,in the deep dark south. I'm upping it to 150, but will probably take 120. That's per class, not a real hour.For other things, like advertising I'm asking for 1000 per day or 400 for an hour because they spend most of the time at dinner, or talking, or showing me around factories etc that I don't give a toss about, wasting time. So an hour is actually half a day, and a day is more than eight hours. How these people waste time.And I hate trying to do work stuffed to the gills. Why not eat AFTER work, and then can have a beer too?
What I won't do for work, well, lots of you got most of it, but the one thing not mentioned that I really won't do is dance, sing a song or otherwise leap about like a goose. I keep telling them I am an educator, not an entertainer, you got the wrong one of my mother's sons.
Twice so far, I have got up to walk off, after explaining several times that I find it insulting and demeaning and pointless. One place I went to, I went for free to just talk to high school kids who hadn't met a foreigner, and wanted me to talk to the kids, with the understanding it is like an English Corner. My wife's colleague's friend ran it so I said OK. Then I get there there is a stage, and the headmistress introduced me by microphone and said I was going to sing a song. I went no, sorry, explained again it my position. So she said, how about a dance? So I started walking away, up to my wife and her colleague, and said, "Let's go". In the end to save their various faces, I did an English corner type thingy, and refused all offers including good money to go there ever again. For any reason.
I ask you, do the Chinese teachers to that? I think not.I noticed it was just students on the stage, the teachers maintaining a quiet dignity ....
A pity, the kids were nice.
Had similar issues at another place grrrrrr.
Dancing Monkey Syndrome, and I for one won't peel bananas with my feet for the entertainment of the peasant masses.