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Shaman
Joined: 06 Apr 2003
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Location: Hammertown
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| Many moons ago I ''acted" in videos which were supposedly designed to teach English in various situations. I cringe now thinking of them. One day when I'm rich and famous I'll be dreading them coming out into the open. It would be the end of a career.(not an acting career. And NO they weren't those type of videos) |
I hear you loud and clear, dmb. When I was in Japan, I had to "perform" in trial lessons that involved children as young as 2-3 years old. There was nothing I loved so much as their parents capturing my singing and dancing on tape. 
Shaman
P.S. Canuck2112: maybe try Circle K.  |
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Capergirl
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 10:34 am Post subject: |
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| You mean this thread isn't about Bruce Willis and Cybil Sheppard? |
Uh oh, now we are revealing our age 
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My age was never a secret.  I used to love that show. I'm sure if I were to watch reruns of it now, I'd wonder why.
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| Many moons ago I ''acted" in videos which were supposedly designed to teach English in various situations. I cringe now thinking of them. One day when I'm rich and famous I'll be dreading them coming out into the open. It would be the end of a career.(not an acting career. And NO they weren't those type of videos) |
I was solicited to do this but I refused. The school I was working for (well, one of the many schools I was working for) tried to trick me into it and it caused a lot of unpleasantness. Initially, I was asked if I would read some dialogues "on tape". I asked what kind of tape and the principal said, "Cassette tape", which I took to mean audio. Sure, why not? But when I got down to the room where I was supposed to record this tape, the place was set up like a movie studio! It was freaky...they must have spent a fortune, it was like Hollywood! I didn't like being tricked into doing a video and I am not an actress, so I declined. I called my bosses (I had two) to complain and instead of supporting me, they told me that they were embarrassed by my behaviour.  Then they offered me "overtime pay" (15,000 won) to do the video. Uh, no.
After that day, the Korean teachers (all of whom were male) sneaked around with hand-held videocameras trying to videotape me when I wasn't looking. Eventually, I told my bosses that I would not be returning to that school because I was being harrassed. |
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Lanza-Armonia
Joined: 04 Jan 2004
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Location: London, UK. Soon to be in Hamburg, Germany
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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After that day, the Korean teachers (all of whom were male) sneaked around with hand-held videocameras trying to videotape me when I wasn't looking. Eventually, I told my bosses that I would not be returning to that school because I was being harrassed. |
I heard one or two things about Koreans doing this to Korean gals and they normally don't care; like the attention!
True or False? |
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Capergirl
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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After that day, the Korean teachers (all of whom were male) sneaked around with hand-held videocameras trying to videotape me when I wasn't looking. Eventually, I told my bosses that I would not be returning to that school because I was being harrassed. |
I heard one or two things about Koreans doing this to Korean gals and they normally don't care; like the attention!
True or False? |
I'm not a "Korean gal" so I can't answer that. However, I imagine that a Korean woman would go along with the request to play Hollywood, whereas this 'difficult' Western female would not. |
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guest of Japan
Joined: 28 Feb 2003
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 4:56 am Post subject: |
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| I had a once a week English lesson radio show for while. I was also the in house English language utility guy at the station. The pay was amazing. I got about $200 for every hours work. |
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sidjameson
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
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Location: osaka
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Here in Japan I have a second job. I lend out my personality. My students sometimes, well maybe once in their lifetime, have an important social event and they need a personality. I rent mine out. Quite a high demand. Pays quite good too.  |
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Stephen Jones
Joined: 21 Feb 2003
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Dear sidjameson,
I hope you took out liability insurance. |
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PatS
Joined: 17 Oct 2003
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Location: Northern California
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| Quite a high demand. Pays quite good too. |
So THAT'S how you were able to save $200,000 in five years! Wish I had a personality like yours! |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
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Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Dear sidjameson,
Hmm, if your personality was out on hire a number of times when you've posted here on Dave's, well, that might explain a lot. 
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John |
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misterkodak
Joined: 04 Apr 2003
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Location: Neither Here Nor There
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| I dunno if this would be considered moonlighting but I did some "schwarzarbeit" on a few building sites when I was working for Inlingua in Halle, Germany and they laid me off for no real good reason. I also did some translation work on the side. I think I enjoyed redoing houses more than teaching the Inlingua method *barf* |
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khmerhit
Joined: 31 May 2003
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Location: Reverse Culture Shock Unit
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I worked as a copyeditor on a newspaper. Very interesting. Then they fired me when they brought in a real editor. Life's like that. 
kh |
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James_T_Kirk
Joined: 20 Sep 2003
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Location: Ten Forward
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| I had lunch with a friend today, and she told me that she knew a guy that is teaching English in Japan. He took some kind of online class that ordained him as a Christian Minister, which allows him to marry people. Apparently, getting married by a Christian Minister is the "in" thing to do in Japan, and he is making a ton of money charging people for weddings. Has anyone else heard of this? Sounded kind of strange and bogus to me! |
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Gordon
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Japan
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| No that is true. You don't need anything special to be a "minister" here. I'd use that word rather loosely. |
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