Thank You TEFL Websites
Why do people take a lower salary than they should? I think about this all the time. It seems that teachers are notorious for this. They will accept a lower pay for some private for profit institution and think they are doing the students some kind of favor. Yeah right.
In reality what happens is that is your lower salary allows the school owner to take on a mistress or get a new BMW. You think you are doing well by your students, but just because you are accepting a lower salary doesn’t mean that they are paying less. Your school is in business and that means they are going to charge as much as they can and still keep students in desks.
That means they’re also going to pay you as little as they can get away. With a huge supply of teachers getting off the banana boat each day, your salary is never going to increase to what it should.
If you like your low, depressed salaries than say thank you to the plethora of TEFL websites that are encouraging untrained and inexperienced teachers to join in a TEFL adventure. I am glad that I am not battling for a cowboy job at some low wage language institute.