Jobs at Last!

Well, after much stress, and a near move to Poland, we’ve finally done it! We were both hired today at a school. This is actually a school that we applied and interviewed with way back during our TEFL course. We probably would have been working already and saved ourselves an enormous amount of stress had we just given the guy a call at the beginning of the month like he told us to. What can I say; we’re slow learners.

And on to the fine print. To start with Charles will be working twenty hours a week, and Allie will be working 10 hours (still waiting to hear from another school on Monday, if no word there are more hours to come at the school we are current working for). We’re being paid twelve euros an hour (one of the highest in Rome) after tax, plus a travel bonus of five euros per day. The travel bonus is because the school doesn’t do much teaching in house but generally in the company’s office, so we’ll be commuting quite a bit. So combined we’ll be just a little under two thousand euros per month, which is quite good, and definitely enough to keep us here.

Now we’re relieved and finally feeling optimistic about our chances here in Rome. Now, as long as we can avoid being deported…