Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Dharma_Blue]

[Dharma_Blue]

[ldh2222]

[DorkothyParker]

[Dharma_Blue]

So what bullshit face-saving responses do you people who listed easy job, free ride, laziness, girls, etc. give to the locals when they ask why you choose Korea?

[pavement burns]

Hi Vegemite,

Choices are possibly the only freedoms we get in this life. On the wagon trail near the Big Muddy is a pioneer grave stone. There is one word carved in it: NOBLE. I only rode with one drunk truck driver on that hike.

That first year, the challenge of keeping a job for a year kept me here. That was a hard thing to do at age 24 following God knows how many jobs in Vancouver. By the second year I had made a comfortable little nest for myself. Third and fourth years were university teaching experience and saved up enough to buy some land back home. I camp out on my holidays in Canada next to the ocean under a sea of stars. There were few enough expatriates here in Korea then and everyone appeared to be a lot more friendly.

Then a three year stint in the Middle East followed by graduate school to build up a savings plan. Wandering, I actually came back HERE however Singapore beckoned (continues to beckon) to make the masters pay for itself. It has. The last three years I have had the best job, studies and learning experience of my life (anywhere) and will only leave when a)they tell me to get out b) consult my way out or c) wheedle a PhD scholarship out of some university somewhere.

The Korean balcony can be a comfortable place for those approaching mid-life. A full time job with holidays is a blessing anywhere. And all of a sudden a pro-lifer and creeping to forty! Unbelievable! I am not sure it has been easy however I wouldn't trade my path with anyone. That first year taught me I had the skills to make Korea and just about anywhere work for me if I developed my patience, listening skills and sense of empathy with a willingness to continue learning. I have a hard time relating to newbies who do not yet understand, "the world is your oyster/reach for the stars." But your work has just begun. You are also your own clay and the work of your own efforts.

[gregoriomills]

[LURKER]

Ain't nothin wrong with an easy job, free housing, and girls!

[jkelly80]

I usually say money when a local asks me, and the ease of learning the script. I'm beyond doing PR.

[Scotticus]

I love that there are people who have been in Korea for years who still ist "free" housing as an incentive.

1) As many have said, the housing is part of your contract, it's not free.
2) If you've been in Korea for years and are still at a job that supplies an apartment with your contract, you need to get yourself some qualifications and get your ass OUT of that fucking hagwon.

[mysterious700]

[TheUrbanMyth]

[lithium]

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