This is great -- thanks for posting it. Can you further explain it? What are the three pay rates in each row?
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| I think "paying so well" is relating to where you are. In Montreal, like i said, you can earn up to 32000 pounds but cost of life is a joke compare to London. You can have a decent appartement in a very nice area for around 300 pounds a month. You can eat at restaurant for 4-5 pounds and not junk food but very nice healty ones. London it's a so expensive city, you need a good salary to make your leaving over there. |
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I agree, Yves. I'm fortunate to be going to a smaller city only an hour outside of London, and I'll be able to live quite well on my salary. I've already found a flat (another teacher owns one she'll be renting to me) -- a 2 BR a a VERY decent price.
So, are you going to apply to the UK or not? If money is the most important thing, you should stay where you, but if you're willing to bring home a bit less and enjoy the UK and Europe on weekends and breaks, you should apply.
For me, salary has never been the number one thing to think about, or I never would have become a teacher. I'll be able to live quite well, and travel almost every school break (6 a year!). There will always be variations in pay, cost of living etc. (My sister-in-law is a teacher, and she moves from one school district to the next, always searching out another thousand or two a year. Wherever she hears that they pay better, she starts applying. That woman is driven by the almighty dollar! And she's also one of those who, between her and her husband, brings home $100K, and they are literally penniless 3 days after payday.)
So, I don't focus on money only -- as long as I make a decent wage, happiness is a whole lot more than money. I'll bring home close to 2,000 pounds a month, pay 500 in rent, most people say groceries cost another 100 a month, a bit for utilities and buses, and hopefully have somewhere around 1,000 pounds left each month.
Ah, two more months and the fun begins!
Best to all!
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Well, i have registred with Blueware last sunday. They wake me up monday morning asking me over the phone what i would do if a student through me a chair. Reading others messages, British students seems pretty rough no?
That sound amazing, taching for 6 weeks and 2 weeks off. I could visit Europe all over . This is the kind of school where i would like to teach.
Talking again about money, like i said, i won't go there for money but i still have to pay my rent here in Montreal so if i can get like 25000 pounds and over that would be fine for me.
Have a nice weekend
Yves
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So you're going to keep your apartment in Montreal? I'm giving up my house here -- selling most stuff, storing a bit of it . . . Housing is not so difficult to come by that if I decided to return in a year or two, I'd have no problem finding something. I don't want to spend money on a vacant house. I'm hoping, though, that I'll be satisfied and stay there permanently. I'll have to work on QTS to stay more than 4 years. ( you sub-let yours?)
No, they didn't ask me what I'd do if a student threw a chair at me. We have discussed student discipline, though, and my classroom management style. I've had a few rough kids (including one with a gun) -- I worked in an alternative school where the kids were pretty rough. And I still have my combat boots from my military years, so I suppose I could wear those if needed, to make an impression? LOL! |
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