This is the first of [Little People·Big Workplace]84Period character：A key junior high school Chinese teacher who failed to pass the preparation exam for 4 consecutive years, angrily changed his career to become an online class teacher, and now he is in 20w+ this year.

Age: 30+ Character: Online class teacher

Coordinates: Zhejiang Annual revenue: 20w+

Some time ago, an educational institution put out a super eye-catching job advertisement: “The annual salary is 2 million, and there is no cap.” For a while, the circle of friends was fried.

Even some relatives called and asked me: “You can earn an annual salary of 2 million in your business now. Can you introduce my family xxx to work in your company?" ”

Of course, some people asked me in a skeptical tone: “This year is 2 million, that is, 170,000 a month, is it true or not?" Brag about it! ”

Facing all kinds of voices, I can only smile bitterly. Yes, I am the one who wears the aura of “2 million salary” but has no holidays to force online class teachers.

 

The income difference between non-editing and editing teachers is 3 times, but I have overturned the exam for editing for 4 consecutive years, and my future is bleak.

I was born in a small third-tier town. I didn't have any grand ambitions since I was a child. I just wanted to be able to find a stable job after graduation, and I was satisfied after a short time.

I volunteered for the college entrance examination and filled out the normal school.

Because in my eyes, teachers are synonymous with ”stability, face, and high income".

 

On the day of my senior year, my dad hurriedly called to tell me that some teachers in the city were recruiting for the exam, and there were only the last two days left. In a panic, I applied for the exam, but I also found that there were only two months left before the exam, but I was not prepared at all.I don't even have a clue how to review it.

Fortunately, with the help of the school teacher, I finally bought relevant review materials, but there are only more than 40 days left before the exam.

Moreover, only 25 people are recruited from more than 200 people. I don't think there is much chance of being admitted. I will practice this time.

Of course, even if I practice my hands, I have to go all out.

For the next more than 40 days, apart from eating, sleeping, reading, and even dreaming, I was brushing questions.

Just when I didn't have any hope for the exam, I unexpectedly passed the written exam and still ranked in the top 25.

This is so lucky!

For the next interview, I prepared seriously for a week, and I also specifically asked my teacher about interview skills. Thinking that as long as you are well prepared for the interview, you can get it safely.

The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. In the end, I was ruthlessly brushed!

Although I am very depressed in my heart, I am helpless. What can I do?

Can only fight again in the coming year.

So, with the help of my parents, I entered a key junior high school not far from home and became a non-English language teacher.

Soon, the difference between non-editing and editing teachers became apparent.

Although there are express regulations that stipulate that teachers who edit and non-edit must be paid equally for equal work, this is not the case in the real situation.

For example, my monthly salary in the first year was about 1800, without year-end performance and subsidies, and 200 to 300 shopping cards will be issued during the New Year and the holidays.

The teacher in the main class who came in with me has a monthly salary of 3500+, not only a monthly subsidy of 2000+, but also a performance award at the end of the year. The only thing that is the same is the shopping card.

In other words, in a year, the income of teachers who are editing and not editing will be more than three times the income of teachers who are not editing.

Fortunately, I live at home and have no rent, but after a month, I basically don't have much money left in my pocket.

Of course, the income gap did not hit me, but it stimulated my motivation to be admitted to the university.

In the second year, I went to the examination room with the confidence that I would enter. I have passed the written exam, probably because the number of places prepared is almost half less than last year, and the competition is fierce. I overturned the car again during the interview.

In the third year, it was because of the interview that the car overturned.

 

I almost lost confidence and even thought of giving up, but my parents felt that a teacher is a worthwhile job. As long as I don't give up, I will always be able to pass the exam.

I'm right when I think about it. The most important thing is to get the work done well, and the exam editor still has to persevere.

In fact, I didn't get admitted to the exam, and I was still a little bit unwilling in my heart.

Think about it. As the main subject of Chinese, I have a lot more workload, pressure and responsibilities than the editing teacher, but my income is only one-third of the editing teacher. No matter what the evaluation is, I will go around me first, and whoever I change to will be psychologically unbalanced.

It's like having the same experience of colleagues' complaints, and I feel so aggrieved in my heart. When I think of it, I don't pay less than my editing colleagues, and even my grades are a lot better than some editing teachers, but because of identity issues, the treatment is pitiful. Just think about it that way, what are you trying to do? It's not as useful as an identity. What else do you think about it?What about work.

Every time I hear this, I have a terrifying thought. If I can't pass the exam, will I have to spend my whole life on the exam paper? If, with this idea in mind, can I still teach and educate people like I used to?

 

Pursuing an annual salary of 200,000, I resigned and became an online class teacher, but as a result, I became an emotionless class machine.

Just when I failed the exam in the fourth year and was extremely discouraged, I saw the recruitment information of the online tutor.

“The annual salary is set by myself, starting at 200,000 yuan, flexible class hours, and high recognition." I was very excited by these words, especially the income, which is really attractive. With the same or even better labor, I can get the same or even higher income as my teacher, no.Is it the goal I have been pursuing?

And as an emerging profession, I think this job will definitely have greater room for development in the future.

I wanted to resign as an online class teacher, but my parents strongly opposed it and my colleagues didn't understand it. They thought I was crazy about money. But I still insisted on leaving school. And my excellent performance in school in the past four years has allowed me to successfully join an online education institution and become an online tutor.

 

However, the work did not go well at the beginning.

Online class teachers are not like teachers in traditional schools. Students take the initiative to learn. As a new tutor, I don't have any students. In order to obtain a source of students, I started frantically taking open classes and free audition classes.

My previous solid foundation in class allowed me to quickly gain the recognition of many students and parents. With the help of colleagues in the team, my student base began to gradually increase.

Although I only got a salary of more than 4,000 in the first month, which is much less than that of my colleagues, it has also doubled from the original.

If I have money, I have motivation. I saw my potential, so I started a crazy class mode. Especially on weekends, I need to stay up from the afternoon to the evening, and I almost don't even have time to breathe.

I even went to the toilet less in order to go to class, and I didn't dare to drink water when it came to smoke in my throat.

After a few years in this way, my income rose from 4,000 to 20,000+.

However, I realized that something was beginning to go wrong.

The continuous rotation of the class made me feel that I was no longer a teacher, but a class machine.

Moreover, as the volume of classes has increased, I have faced more and more problems.

The first is that there are no holidays.

Although when signing the contract, the personnel reminded me that there are no holidays except for the Spring Festival. This means that I will say goodbye to the enviable winter and summer vacations every year.

At first, I really didn't feel that there was much difference between whether there were holidays or not, but then I found out that there were no holidays, which was really heartbreaking.

"May 1st" and "Eleventh" do not exist, and classes have to be held as usual on Saturdays and Sundays. The most relaxing winter and summer vacations in the past have now become my busiest days.

In the past few years at work, I have hardly let go of my vacation. Even on New Year's Eve, I spent it in class.

If the intensive class is in addition to the pit I dug for myself, the extra overtime is a bit beyond my expectation.

I used to think that online classes were very simple. As long as I read the prepared class in front of the camera, the students can answer questions, but in fact this is not the case.

There is still no shortage of class preparation and class grinding before each class.

The assigned homework cannot be watched by parents as usual. They can only correct them one by one after class, and then give feedback and guidance one by one through the app. This is more time-consuming and energy-consuming than in school.

 

And the one thing that gives me the most headache and “abomination” is “course renewal".

That is, after a stage is over, are there still students who are willing to continue studying in this class, and are there still new students who can come in to study?

When I first went to work, as soon as the free open class was held, it was easy to attract a wave of parents and students to enroll in the class. However, with the influx of more and more online training institutions, the competition between the industry and even teachers is also getting hotter and hotter. And parents are becoming more and more picky about the requirements of online tutoring classes.

Therefore, as long as there is a “renewal period”, my team is highly nervous and the pressure is so great that it collapses. After all, this is one of the most important criteria for evaluating performance.

What's even more terrifying is that every time there is a renewal period, the leader will publish the renewal status of each team in the work group every hour or even half an hour. Looking at the constantly flipping leaderboard, it is simply killing people.

Only those teachers who are already very well-known offline don't need to worry about renewing their applications. Their names are golden signs, and the company also actively posts money to them, so they are eligible for an annual income of 2 million.

Fortunately, I started early and won the recognition of many parents and students. And some new teachers are not so lucky. In addition to class every day, they have to spend extra time communicating with parents who have taken audition classes, and they have to constantly organize their parents' information. Anyway, as long as they can get parents to report for class, the eighteen martial arts have their own magical powers, but because of the poor performance of the renewal report, they have to spend more time communicating with parents who have taken audition classes.And there are many teachers who have left.

However, working overtime until the early hours of the morning to renew my report has gradually become my norm.

Slowly, I found that my original beliefs began to change. In the past, I just wanted to teach all my students what I had learned, and then get the same or higher remuneration as the other teachers.

And now, in order to keep my income and promotion, I have been forced to make changes. Everything I do revolves around making money. In order to maintain more than 2w of income, it is necessary to do many things against your will that did not belong to the profession of teacher.

I started to be a little scared and confused, not knowing where my future would be.

 

A student's thank you call helped me get out of the fog. I found something more important than 200,000.

Just when I was confused and didn't know where the future direction was, I received a special call.

It was a student I once tutored who was on the phone. She had been admitted to the ideal high school. She told me on the phone that she was very grateful to me for being able to get my help at this special time in the third grade.

She felt that I was not so much a stern teacher as a caring big sister who helped her through that particularly difficult day.

Yes, I think of it. It was the first time I tutored a junior high school student. Both the responsibility and the psychological pressure were great.

Because as an online teacher, it is impossible to pay attention to students' every move face-to-face as in school before, let alone receive students' feedback on classroom content in time.

And across a small screen, really, sometimes you don't even know what the students outside the screen are doing.

 

Therefore, the requirements for online classes are higher than offline. It is necessary not only to pay attention to students' attention, but also to mobilize the classroom atmosphere through one's own efforts to continuously strengthen students' attention. Therefore, it is no easier to be a real and popular online teacher than an offline teacher.

In addition to paying attention to their changes in scores from time to time, I also pay attention to their changes in attitude towards learning.

Usually, I will reply to students' messages as soon as possible, but I find that there is too little information from such feedback, so I switch to voice to actively communicate with them.

Sometimes, when I meet students who are in a bad mood, I even spend one to two hours communicating with them.

After a long time, they began to trust me, and many things they didn't want to say to their parents would be quietly told to me.

This student had a disagreement with his parents on filling out the volunteers and developed a sense of resistance. After I communicated over and over again, I finally passed my own efforts and was admitted to a high school where both my parents and myself were satisfied.

Her call suddenly made me realize that as a teacher, making money is of course a very important thing, but if you can become a teacher who affects students for a lifetime, it is even more important.

It's not so much that this call is the student's gratitude to me, it's better to say that this is a reminder she gave me, which made me suddenly realize. I know what I should do in the future.

 

Some time ago, my former colleague and friend asked me, is the online class teacher easy and profitable?

I told him that whether offline or online, if you want to earn more, you have to be a good teacher.

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All the time, there has been an idea to tell the workplace and entrepreneurial stories of ordinary people around them. They may not be successful in the secular sense, they are not rich, and they are even working hard for their lives and houses, but everyone is unique, and their stories are unique. They must be in their stories.There is sadness, there is temperature, there is power, there are certain things that touch you, little people, there is also great power.