Work / Advice on WHEN to go to Poland to teach English [30]

Yeah, i'm sure a lot of people are advertising for private lessons, i have seen a lot on Gumtree. Maybe i'll make some professional looking leaflets with a company and print off about 2500 of them! Even making a quick website with 'past students' of mine on there haha.

The nightlife is a bit different to England I think, here we have huge superclubs, in Krakow it seemed it was mainly bars. The best place I ever went to was when I lived in Nottingham.

Work / Advice on WHEN to go to Poland to teach English [30]

Yeah I thought it was nice when I visited, nightlife weren't too bad either. Plenty of students around to try give private lessons to!

Work / Advice on WHEN to go to Poland to teach English [30]

Hmmm, Krakow doesn't sound so nice to work in, but it has to be done! Yeah that would be great if I could speak to someone who taught there.

Work / Advice on WHEN to go to Poland to teach English [30]

So, if all goes to plan I will go to Krakow and visit every single Callan School in the city and hopefully get a job. If not lets assume I go somewhere like Gliwice and get a job there. This would mean I have to pay rent, which I think is cheaper than in Krakow, yet the wages are about the same?

From what I read the Katowice area has very cheap housing yet people have about the same wages as Krakow, my girlfriend says its cheap there because no-one likes it and its ugly. But if they pay well and the accommodation is cheap then thats all fine with me! I was even looking at Kielce, but apparently the average wage there is little over 1000z a month compared to about 3000z in Krakow. Does the average wage in an area even affect how much a Callan Teacher would make?

Work / Advice on WHEN to go to Poland to teach English [30]

Luckily I do not have to pay any rent in Krakow, my girlfriend has a flat on Al. Pokoju all paid for. I have been talking to her today about what if I cannot get a job in Krakow etc, and we decided that if I could get a job somewhere relatively close then I should. I read on one of these forums that it is hard to get a teaching job in Krakow if you are inexperienced, whereas smaller towns would be easier as they are less popular. Somewhere like Gliwice maybe!

We predicted I would spend about 1000z a month living there, thats 400z for food, about 200z for the flats bills and 400z on 'other'. That would mean I could stay there for 4 months unemployed. So, its pretty tight! Our main worry is that fact I have not got much money and am inexperienced, though I guess that doesn't matter too much with the Callan.

Work / Advice on WHEN to go to Poland to teach English [30]

Thanks for the information, its pretty much what I needed to know. However, a change of circumstance may be happening. My girlfriend will have enough money to go to Poland at the end of January and really wants to get away from here (I live in Luton, a s-hole).

With this recession happening its very hard for me to get a job here, so I don't mind leaving for Poland whenever. So will it be hard for me to get a job as a Callan teacher between the end of January and lets say the end of May? That will be the only teaching job I could apply for seeing as I was going to take CELTA in July.

Work / Advice on WHEN to go to Poland to teach English [30]

So by your calculations, on 120,000 a year umowa zlecenie contracts would earn somone 5100 a month, whereas umowa o dzieło would earn someone 8907 a month. How about the standard umowa o pracę contract, how much would someone earn on that one?

Work / Advice on WHEN to go to Poland to teach English [30]

Thanks for the information. I think I will go in August then if there's nothing in April. I have read that most teachers get around 50z an hour, but have read different things about tax. after all deductions are made some people claim they only see about half their gross wage, then others say they only get 1/7th of their wages deducted. Can you clear up with me exactly how much is deducted from wages?

Callan teachers get paid around 30z an hour I have found. Not a bad wage I guess, but if they are only offering 20 hours a week it isn't that much.