Korean Job Discussion Forums

[kreitler7]

Well, most of your family and friends back home won't give a ratsass about your interests and activities here anyway. You may think that everybody cares about what you are doing since you are so far away in a different place, but they don't. People live their own lives and you are quickly forgotten. But don't sever all ties. A great way to keep in touch is with a program called Skype. Just buy some credits and you can talk for hours on your computer.

Oh yeah, forget about keeping a blog. Nobody reads it.

[Rock]

My main concern is the fact I feel a purpose being here. Family and friends think it's better to follow the American Dream. A lot of these concerns have to do with my ideologies about life, some of which have been contrary to theirs but which I don't want to mention here. But a lot of their doubts are of my own making: I've told them some of the negativities of living in Asia, some of the hype you may hear on this forum.

It's just that you need someone to talk to sometimes, and family is your best outlet. Yet there's a biasness that comes with it, since the upsides sometimes exceed the downsides, ie., your own apartment, good pay, cheap living, a relatively good standard of living; and a sort of acceptance verses their ideals of slaving it out back in the states.

My division with family is that they feel their humdrum existence and me starting at the bottom, is the way to live, that living in Asia is a pipe dream, an easy way out.

So to sever all contacts seems to keep me from being even more discouraged, since this dream, too, is frought with pitfalls and little do they know the ups and downs here.

[sojourner1]

My relatives perfectly accept my decision to go on this sojourn, but the time difference keeps me from calling as much as I would like to. Though I do call home once a week, I sometimes go several weeks without checking in when time just runs it's course out of control as it almost always does for me.

I want to call home during lunch or after work, but people are sleeping at those times so I have to wait until around midnight to 3AM Korean time phone home which often prevents me from doing so due to being too tired at said times.