During the interview, the boss will paint an incredibly rosy picture, making it sound as though the company has great prospects and excellent benefits. However, after actually joining, you will find that the boss deliberately glosses over the important details and only talks about things that are advantageous to the company. The only thing stated directly is that “there is no overtime pay.”

Although the company’s introduction says that the starting salary is NT$25,000, NT$5,000 will be deducted during the first three-month probationary period and then paid back all at once after the fourth month. As a result, the salary during the first three months is less than NT$19,000, because an inexplicable NT$5,000 is deducted in addition to labor and health insurance contributions. If this is still acceptable so far, then when you sign a contract with the company in the fourth month, the NT$15,000 will become a signing bonus. This means that if you have other plans in life and want to change career paths, NT$15,000 will be deducted from you.

During the probationary period, there are also many tasks the company requires employees to do outside working hours, such as handing out flyers at schools. Since these tasks do not take much time, the company provides no compensation whatsoever. There is also some strange new-hire training. Although it is called training, it consists only of listening to the boss brag about how impressive they used to be. You learn nothing, and this time does not count as working hours either; because it is supposedly employee training, there is not even compensatory time off.

If you are genuinely passionate about teaching, please think twice as well. You do not need to let businesspeople sell your passion for teaching.