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OnTheOtherSide
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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 Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:10 pm Post subject: Life after Korea |
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| If you left Korea next week. Where would you go? What would you do? Why? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:40 pm Post subject: Re: Life after Korea |
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| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
If you left Korea next week:
1) Where would you go?
2) What would you do?
3) Why? |
1) I would go sit on the beach under the shade of a nipa hut.
2) Watch the waves roll in and the coconuts grow.
3) Because the world economy is in the tank so it is not worth running back home to be old and unemployed or be entrepreneurial and start everything all over again and I can't think of any good reason to stay here working. Time to retire to the beach.
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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| i would love to pack up everything right now and scurry off to one of the thai islands. maybe leave a little note on my apartment door for my co-teacher. |
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ciccone_youth
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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1) Back to my hometown, Montreal
2) See my friends, eat some great food and find a job ASAP
3) I just want to go back to my life there after a fun year here. |
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MrRogers
Joined: 29 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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back to New England, where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and the children are all above average...
and there are always down-to-earth ways of making a living |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Get a job in Japan or Thailand. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Debauch myself in Shanghai. |
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OnTheOtherSide
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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I just ran off back to the US. It's hard to decide what to do next. I have a few choices, they all look good. I could stay in America, or go to another country. The unstable economy makes the decision even harder. The US is nice and comfortable, but a little bit too nice and comfortable.
It mostly depends on our individual situations I guess.
I'm not going back to Korea though. The fact that I basically pulled a runner probably makes it so i'm blacklisted. But I don't care  |
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Bread
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
I just ran off back to the US. It's hard to decide what to do next. I have a few choices, they all look good. I could stay in America, or go to another country. The unstable economy makes the decision even harder. The US is nice and comfortable, but a little bit too nice and comfortable.
It mostly depends on our individual situations I guess.
I'm not going back to Korea though. The fact that I basically pulled a runner probably makes it so i'm blacklisted. But I don't care |
Didn't you keep saying that you had a great job in a great city? |
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okokok
Joined: 27 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
I just ran off back to the US. It's hard to decide what to do next. I have a few choices, they all look good. I could stay in America, or go to another country. The unstable economy makes the decision even harder. The US is nice and comfortable, but a little bit too nice and comfortable.
It mostly depends on our individual situations I guess.
I'm not going back to Korea though. The fact that I basically pulled a runner probably makes it so i'm blacklisted. But I don't care |
Tell us something we don't know. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: Re: Life after Korea |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| I would go sit on the beach under the shade... |
Nah. That's just winter vacation. 
| ciccone_youth wrote: |
| Back to my home town... |
No thanks.
| MrRogers wrote: |
| there are always down-to-earth ways of making a living" |
Now that's just crazy talk!
| nomadish wrote: |
| I would love to pack up everything right now and scurry off to one of the thai islands. maybe leave a little note on my apartment door... |
One place for another. Hmmm.. how long would that last?
| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
| If you left Korea next week. Where would you go? What would you do? Why? |
TRAVEL THE WORLD until my savings run out (about a year or two I suspect, less if much time spent in Europe); GO BACK TO GRAD SCHOOL and enjoy being a student again, the worst that could happen is to get another philosophy degree, any advance degree boosting english language teaching jobs so it's not like there's no going back; or, OPEN A BUSINESS like a bar on a beach, something low pressure, little capital outlay and enjoyable day-to-day relaxing work.
Poll options woulda been nice to pick and choose from. |
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OnTheOtherSide
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Bread wrote: |
| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
I just ran off back to the US. It's hard to decide what to do next. I have a few choices, they all look good. I could stay in America, or go to another country. The unstable economy makes the decision even harder. The US is nice and comfortable, but a little bit too nice and comfortable.
It mostly depends on our individual situations I guess.
I'm not going back to Korea though. The fact that I basically pulled a runner probably makes it so i'm blacklisted. But I don't care |
Didn't you keep saying that you had a great job in a great city? |
I do, and it is a good situation. But I also have the temptation to keep travelling pulling at me. And I've got a great hook up at a school in South America that pays pretty well.
So it's a choice between a stable and predictable American life. Or more travel and adventure. |
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Bread
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
| So it's a choice between a stable and predictable American life. Or more travel and adventure. |
If you choose the former, you are a loser. Go get married and spit out some babies. That is all. |
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OnTheOtherSide
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Bread wrote: |
| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
| So it's a choice between a stable and predictable American life. Or more travel and adventure. |
If you choose the former, you are a loser. Go get married and spit out some babies. That is all. |
A big part of me is thinking that same thing. After travelling around Asia, the US feels very boring and lacking in adventure.
But, I will be living in a new city in a new part of the US, so it will be a fresh experience for sure. Also my cash supply is running a little low right now, so I probably should just ground myself here for a little while.
The key is to just not get tied down I guess. Be ready to shift gears and change your mind if the situation calls for it. |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
| A big part of me is thinking that same thing. After travelling around Asia, the US feels very boring and lacking in adventure. |
I'm curious to know (I've read your other threads): What made you come here in the first place, and if your time here was such a miserable failure, what makes you want to do another stretch abroad? Why should that experience be any different?
OB/OT: If I had to leave today, I'd probably head to Shanghai and room with a buddy for a while until I can get a job and a visa somewhere. I don't see any singular reason to leave Sparkling at the moment. It's a gorgeous day. |
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