Tuesday, December 08, 2009 - Future Planning

Bella and I visited the university’s foreign exchange office today to talk about our contract for next year.

There was a whole lot of talking about pay. Basically, universities usually pay for only ten months. There is no teaching in the summer months.

We were hired in March, however, so we were paid for eleven months this year. The university would like to see this go back to ten months, which we didn’t like because it would mean us earning less the coming year than this one. So we wanted a bigger raise than the one we were originally getting.

There was a whole lot of talking and the lady we did the talking to is now going to ask her boss for permission to give us a higher raise. We’ll see.