Might have been. He had a picture of Sean Connery in Zardoz as his icon. Seemed like a nice chap, just couldn’t land a teaching gig for some reason. Far Flung Scot?
If i offered to work at a school for 400, the school wouldn’t take it. They would assume i was a paedo who didn’t care about money and just wanted to be close to kids. Or a drug dealer on the run from the FBI.
There was an ABC guy on the run from America years ago. Something to do with an underage girl in the US. Well it turns out years earlier, after he had run away from the law in America, but before he was in the news here, he was working as an English teacher under his Taiwanese name. My wife worked with him and he even asked her out. She said she didn’t go on a date with him, but she had a weird look on her face. He was working for 30000 a month instead of using his US passport/US identity and making double that at least. He lasted a couple of months but got sacked because his Chinese wasn’t good enough to deal with parents. I asked my wife why no one thought it was weird that he didn’t just use his Taiwanese passport officially, but teach as a NES like a lot of dual citizens i know. She was like we didn’t think too much.
In which case that’s a generous pay rate. Usually with teaching young learners that’s the top level, foreign owned hard core buxiban type of places. That’s the highest I’ve ever earned teaching young learners other than private classes. Good luck!