Forums > Living in Kunming > Re: "Looking for highly professional teacher" ad @Tonyaod
First I am happy that I could make you happy. That is very important.
It's sad that you don't even know the school or me but already have a strong opinion about how exactly everything looks like, over there.
I would recommend to read the ad again, to all posters. Would be nice, I mean it.
-First it's a preschool, and it seems like so far the posters have not much experience with preschool environment and teaching, or may just be bashing.
-23 years of age is a requirement to apply for a work visa.
-professional behavior and work ethics have absolutely nothing to do with work experience or education level. One is gifted with professionalism or not [or trained at]. But we also give inexperienced but professional, skilled and gifted teachers a chance.
-"The Pay" you should maybe read the ad again. compare working hours/contact hours and pay. I think you misunderstood.
-Please if you know any preschool that pays more than 8000RMB/month for those working conditions, let me know I am interested. lol
8000RMB is more than a preschool educator gets in Europe.
-Usually professional development means consistent training 'AND' career chances.
Also I am not quite sure why more or less working hours equals no career chances or limited retirement happiness.
-The retirement plan, I have not met one person that used China for a retirement strategy. Unless you work for a foreign entity. Plus it's regulated by the government...work hard...climb up...more retirement funds. Same everywhere.
-I will not go into details about why the school chose those schedule but professional teachers and especially 'highly professional' ones will understand and appreciate it, a lot.
Plus we had a teacher who wanted more work, so he worked more hours and got more pay.
It's not that there isn't enough work.
-All preschool jobs are high stress environments and mentioning it in the ad, is better than teachers being surprised how exhausting it can be, working with preschool kids.
If I was looking for 'hardworking suckers to take advantage' of I would have written an ad looking for a professional sucker.
But no! I am in charge of the foreign staff, including Professional Development etc. and I am trying my best to be professional and demand professionalism, coz everything else can be achieved through PD.
So I am still looking for exactly the person I posted before "Highly Professional Teachers [Educators in some countries]".
Please before you are bashing my ad or the school please [sincerely], do some research on how preschools are internationally paid and structured.
You can P.M. me if you have questions.
@Yankee
You couldn't be more wrong.
As [so far] all the other posters....sadly!
@Liumingke
I think you have a little calculation error there. A month has an average of 20-22working days, the pay is 8000RMB/month.
Please check again.
Look guys I am just trying to get good and professional staff and I am also known for trying hard to put my a** on the line to get what teachers deserve and protect them from all the chaos that schools in China can produce.
I chose to be honest rather than hand out fake promises.
So please if you have questions I am happy to answer them via P.M.
What you wrote is pretty much all wrong besides your personal perception and it's unfair.
Please, rather than just bashing, why don't you help me find a great teacher.
A look back at April's Spirit Tribe Trance celebration
发布者@ASG91 @Macky
I don't know, if you were involved in the planning.
I have done event-planning at the East coast for 5 years and there are no; 'no-profit', events.
I don't want to sound rude but you should thank Kiara for her comments and in case you were in the team.
Because, she went to the festival.
She is a paying customer, being condescending or defending, is not helpful.
Do you want people to feel sorry for the staff, or not having the perfect event?
Then I can only recommend,....don't do gigs like that.
If you need your customers to feel sorry for the volunteers, that's not very good.
Next time give 'em a sticker 'Volunteer', if you need them to get more sympathy.
Or just invest and pay them, most volunteers are happy to be there and have a few free drinks and their entrance fee covered.
I think you should actually ask Kiara what the exact problems were.
We all know planning gigs isn't easy, but as customers, we have the privilege, to not wanting to hear about it.
If you want to get your festival more famous (and please don't tell me that you don't want it to grow bigger) that would be helpful.
So, I can't let that that stand -what you wrote.
Events in rural China are cheaper than in the city, usually permission is easier to get, especially if the region is not on the grid.
Looking at the pictures I can't see that you did spend loads of money on location, i.e. security.
A few basics;
Usual planning of an event is 6 month to 8 month and that is Beijing-time, including, fire-code, security planning and briefing, harmony-background check of the artist, etc.
And I am sure you guys got a little bit of [well deserved] money. And that is O.K.
What seems to be the issue of Kiara and customers telling about the event, has nothing, to do with money but with planning and managing.
I don't know the prices you charged but I am sure it wasn't cheap and giving people no other choices but all of them these eating [three meals a day] and drinking at your food stall only....I guess there was something falling off the table, financially.
My little advice, split the bar[s] up next time, and away from the food.
It diverts the event-goers, and naturally shortens waiting lines.
So are little snack shops, which you can run or rent and make even more money.
They also divert event-goers.
Separating the booze from beer and soft drinks is a must, especially when understaffed.
People know what they want to buy, they go by the beer, booze, or beverage instinct
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That way it is less stress for the volunteers.
An old saying in the field; the bar is more important than the stage.
From what I see and hear, it hasn't been planned very well. Which is alright, I mean it's the second open air festival, so it takes time. But planning is the key, and being overly cost-efficient is not helping.
Let other F&B's in, you make much more and easier money, by renting out stalls and asking for profit share. And you have far less work.
And thus, allow people to get more variety and chose prices and items they like.
The bar only stacks, what is easiest for you to produce, -quickly!
People are very generous when it comes to drink choices at concerts. That way, you don't have to worry about an angry beer mob.
Make it easy for you, to offer mixed and ready-to-go drinks.
Well, even beer you can be put out on the counter for a few minutes.
The gig looks awesome though, and I will go for sure next time, problems fixed, or not. I just really like small gigs.
For me it looks like a great and worthy event to go to, but it suffered the usual, make it cheap and sell it with profit, China-gig.
Throw some money out of the window, you will lose money either way, if you run those festivals like that.
But in the long run, you will only make real profit, and achieve success when the festival grows.
The faster you accept that thought, the sooner you will have success.
P.M. me if you want help, for the next gig. If you guys are really, absolutely non-profit, I will help you for free.
P.S. I know it's difficult to plan events in China, but please, if there is even the tiniest negative comment, take it and live it. It is the result of your planning, so accept it and make it perfect next time.
In the end, congratulations and Good Luck for next year.
China's national meat scandal hits Yunnan
发布者@tiger
i still don't get why anyone would keep bad meat for that long, cooling it storage rent, transportation, blocked storage space etc.
i mean most meats or fish, even deepfrozen store about a year or two,maybe a little more, if you are crazy enough to try.
somebody must have had a long and intimate relation with that meat, to hold onto it for that long.
China's national meat scandal hits Yunnan
发布者what i can't wrap my head around is, why would anyone, in his right mind, store rotten meat for half a century?
Book Review: Great Leaps
发布者I am honored that Colin let me (test)read it a few month back. And it was a wonderful read. I actually enjoyed the pace and structure in the beginning, which i think is very helpful, if you don't know him or the other Sal's guys.
the book is witty and very funny at the right spots. I can only recommend it.
If you just want a nice afternoon read, if you want to open a business and get an inside view on how to change and better employment standards and motivation in China, knowing Sal's and Colin better, or reading on how to handle massive tradegy in a rough place....it's a long list.
the onlycrticism it gets from me is, that it is two short. So, Colin i am waiting for the sequel!