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Hmmmf, $500 is a little less than what I get for one month full time as an English teacher :-/

• roel_v 16y ago
  Well I guess that the comparison is meaningless with someone who lives in a 2nd tier Chinese city...
  • dublinclontarf 16y ago
    It's got me thinking on changing professions.
    • roel_v 16y ago
      Do you have any idea of how much a prostitute in a Chinese city would make? Is there any open reporting, human interest reporting or something like that in China? Is prostitution visible at all?
    • csomar 16y ago
      Sorry but you are comparing prostitute to teaching? Even if you get paid higher with the former, will you declare your work publicly? No! Why? You have the answer.
    • crpatino 16y ago
      You do not seem to have got the point at all. It is not about the profession, it is all about decommoditization. The first and most important thing she (unknowingly) did right was to avoid having a pimp in the first place. The second important thing she did was to differentiate her service and offer it to the premium market. You can follow the same strategy as a teacher. Refuse to lecture a class of 50+ students* (where the break even point for the school is 5-10). Seek instead to position yourself as a personal tutor for the children of the wealthy. You will find out that you need to provide a quality of service way beyond what is expected of an average classroom instructor, and also you will have to tolerate your customers idiosyncrasies. But, hey... you would have to do that anyway! * I am going to the outliers here. 50+ students is the low end of a continuous. I am just trying to draw a parallel to the other example in the article (the $18k/yr street hooker).
      • dublinclontarf 16y ago
        Changing professions doesn't mean into prostitution. I'm not too sure of the demand here of balding, slightly overweight pale western men.