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GambateBingBangBOOM
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So just to clarify:
You have two months experience in Vietnam.
You have a three month summer vacation during what is winter for the northern hemisphere.
You want to get a job telling your employer that you will stay for a year (because otherwise it would be very difficult to get a job around January in the Northern Hemisphere), and then quit when you need to go back to Australia to continue your degree.
Is one reason why you don't want to just go back to Vietnam because you're worried that potential employers may call your former employer and discover that this is exactly what you did then, too?
And so a negative reference doesn't matter to you because you'll just log up two months here and two months there in countries that you won't return to, and then be able to claim that you've worked in X number of countries when you graduate? (if that IS your plan, then you might want to rethink it- a stream of two month jobs screams "Don't trust this guy! He's just going to quit!" to people doing the interviewing, and it would be more than a little bit suspicious sounding to say that they were short term contracts that you completed- during the middle of winter when school has started and final exams are approaching). |
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naturegirl321
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Location: home sweet home
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is it possible to find much private tuition in South Korea, maybe that wouldn't require a degree?
It ususally takes some time to build up a base of private students. You are talking about staying very short-term - I doubt this would be a viable option. |
Teaching privates is illegal in Korea unless you have a visa that allows you to do so. Getting cuaght can mean deportation. BUt I think that if you're interested in Korea, you should go to the separate Korean forum. |
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JZer
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Location: Pittsburgh
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I agree that you're likely to get more/better info on the Korea forum.
For what it's worth, I, too, have friends who worked in Korea and say teaching privately is illegal in most cases... |
Yes, unless you have a visa through marriage or a visa as overseas born Korean teaching privates is illegal. Not to mention that I believe private tutoring is highly regulated in Korean and Koreans have even faced fines and jail time for what the government considered tutoring improprieties.
You can search the internet and find out more about that. There was a Korean teacher who made over $100,000 a month tutoring two Korean students privately. |
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JZer
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Would you legally be able to teach English in a hogwon(cram school) on that working holiday visa? |
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Chancellor
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Location: Ji'an, China - if you're willing to send me cigars, I accept donations :)
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mgs2
Joined: 07 Dec 2008
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| GambateBingBangBOOM wrote: |
So just to clarify:
You have two months experience in Vietnam.
You have a three month summer vacation during what is winter for the northern hemisphere.
You want to get a job telling your employer that you will stay for a year (because otherwise it would be very difficult to get a job around January in the Northern Hemisphere), and then quit when you need to go back to Australia to continue your degree.
Is one reason why you don't want to just go back to Vietnam because you're worried that potential employers may call your former employer and discover that this is exactly what you did then, too?
And so a negative reference doesn't matter to you because you'll just log up two months here and two months there in countries that you won't return to, and then be able to claim that you've worked in X number of countries when you graduate? (if that IS your plan, then you might want to rethink it- a stream of two month jobs screams "Don't trust this guy! He's just going to quit!" to people doing the interviewing, and it would be more than a little bit suspicious sounding to say that they were short term contracts that you completed- during the middle of winter when school has started and final exams are approaching). |
Some interesting points, but not always accurate. When I worked in Vietnam, I left on very good terms with the company I worked for, even though I did only work for a couple of months, so I know I could easily get a job with them again if I wanted, but the point is to get some experience elsewhere.
In terms of when I graduate, I would simply logically explain that this work I did was for only a few months because it was confined to our summer break, this is common sense. |
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