Teaching online

Well, it was good reading along here though I admit it was really an eyesore at times. I have started teaching Koreans here in the Philippines 16 years ago and the pay was Php150 per hour then. It was lower then the starting pay of 180 per hour to teach in a college as an instructor. Lower since in a college we taught greater number of students compared to a 1 on 1 instruction or SM for an ohakwon. That time, there were not so many Pinoy teaching English to Koreans or less than 10 ohakwon in Quezon City. The requirement then was not only that you could speak English very well but also you could teach well. I stopped for two years in 1997 (Korean economic depression) and when I came back, I was so surprised that teachers are being paid Php 70 per hour at the most in the academy (mostly Php 50 per hour). When I took a look at it, I saw the differences. Before, we were competing with those ESL teachers from the Vietnamese refugee camp and we do have a distinctive difference and most of the teachers were A1 English teachers that were either been frustrated in schools or were looking for more challenging teaching elsewhere. We were not thinking of the economic side of thing but more on the passion to improve the students to satisfy our profession. It was the problem of our office managers to check on the how much and we trust them. Now, so many teachers but the quality of instruction deteriorated so much (sorry for saying so). During our time, students were thinking that it was better to study here than the US, AUS, Can and Britain because Pinoy English teachers got the ESL acquistion experiences plus competence to teach. They would go back speaking English after less than 5 months of staying here.
Now, the fashion is teaching English online. I was teaching online since 2003 and I am getting $100 for 10 sessions of 50 mins each. But recently I found out that some Pinoy teachers online get $1 for 20 minutes of teaching privately.
I was a curriculum developer of English institutes and phone English services in Ortigas and I know that the Korean businessmen will not invest into the business if they would just get a penny. Unfortunately, we Pinoy keep on pulling it down. Instead of English getting our good resource, without thinking, dried up the dough. I really cannot really point figure but only to sigh that instead of making it better, we deteriorated it.
There is money in English. But, we should be wise on how to deal with it.