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I'm also going to Beijing, albeit for a short trip, this summer -- my business partner is there right now doing a year of study abroad, and I've been thinking a
by donw 18y ago
I'm also going to Beijing, albeit for a short trip, this summer -- my business partner is there right now doing a year of study abroad, and I've been thinking along the same lines as you. Although I don't think you get $60/hr for teaching English, unless you mean the equivalent of that in local wages.
That said, how do you plan on coping with the Great Firewall? We've had nothing but problems with connectivity outside of China...
- garply 18y agoYou can target wealthy families, build relationships so that you get recommended to their friends, and market yourself as an upscale tutor. Re: firewall, I haven't found it to be particularly problematic. Just set up a server in the US and use an SSH tunnel. The speed can be slow, but you should be ok as long as you're not trying to stream video or the like.
- donw 18y agoAaah, 关系. :)
- poutine 18y agoThe bigger problem with the Chinese Internet is that it's just slow. Foreign links to the Internet are often congested and will slow down incredibly at times. It sucks. The Great firewall is mostly just a pain in the ass. However, it's easy to get around. Use FoxyProxy and OpenVPN to a server in the US (or one of the hosted VPN companies). I end up tunneling all my traffic most of the time. Except for this post, let's see if it works... :)