Korean Job Discussion Forums

[peter07]

Let's all be positive and give each other suggestions on how to make life better in Korea.

1) Reduce drinking

2) Avoid fast or processed foods

3) Exercise more

4) Take up a hobby that doesn't require too much dough

5) Get closer with family or relatives

6) Beef up skills or credentials

7) Laugh more

[Bibbitybop]

I've decided to get a real degree, stop doing drugs everyday as well as stop forcing Korean girls to do them and I'm going to start protecting other people, men and women, from the AIDS I have by wearing a condom from now on.

[Roch]

[IncognitoHFX]

1) Find a new contract. Significantly less hours and better students. I'm talking 15-20 teaching hours a week at a large hagwon.

2) Get comfortable. I seriously haven't been comfortable since I've been here. I've been to busy exploring, trying new things and I haven't had my feet firmly planted anywhere. I want to be able to do a little thing called "relaxing" this year, which strongly depends on achieving #1.

3) Rise above. I have a good peer group here: we don't drink, don't club and don't generally act like idiots. I want more mature people around me and I want to continue avoiding alcoholic frat boy foreigners.

4) Exercise. I went from 140lbs to 155lbs since I've been here, so when it starts getting warmer I want to start running / walking to work everyday. Also contingent on #1.

5) Move to a better area. Also contingent on #1.

6) Send more money home. I have megaloans to pay off and haven't been doing as much as I should have. I forget what a good opportunity I have here to make more money than anyone my age ever could back home with way less strings attached.

7) Settle down and start planning long term. I'm getting old, it's about time to do this. I'm not going to be one of those people who is eternally 19.

8) Learn Korean. I want to be fluent by my third contract.

9) Learn grammar and how to teach English effectively. Seriously. I don't know anything about grammar. I teach Social Studies so I've been able to avoid this dire subject since my contract began, but I realize that next year I may work at a hagwon that actually requires me to teach English in a cold, hard effective manner. I don't know what a verb is, I don't know what an adjective, noun or anything connected to the above is, and my brain is set up in such a way that I seem to be unable to retain such knowledge even after I have studied it.

10) Once I have enough time freed up I might consider working on my Master's Degree via distance education. Haven't really began to investigate it, but I know it is something I want to do eventually.

[New Luck Toy]

Mad Libs taught me verbs, nouns, adverbs, adjectives, etc.

[stevieg4ever]

most of these go for any developed country though dont they?

here are a few more relevant ones

1) make more of an effort with your co teachers
2) make more of an effort to learn Korean
3) spend less time on Daves

[xCustomx]

[IncognitoHFX]

[shetan]

[stevieg4ever]

dont forget the rice

[Hanson]