Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Mashimaro]

[Zyzyfer]

We're not talking retirement, are we...

The big problem for a lot of people is indeed the hakwon issue. Being American in particular is a biatch here. 1 month to find work or play...and then you've gotta get out of Dodge. Quit a job, you're on a plane somewhere. It makes it difficult to stay static here in Korea, which isn't exactly known for being static and lacking of energy.

The ideal life would be working in the same city/neighborhood as the Chica, so that I could loosen up weekends, and we could either do something cool out of town together, or I could go attend to whatever weekend mischief suits me at the time. A uni job this time around, and try my hand at teaching the adults, which seems to be where I do my best as a teacher. Have plenty of free time, and shut the internet frenzy down. Continue using the TV as background noise, for the most part. Get a keyboard for my laptop with a nice, long cord, so that I can lean back against the wall and type away tonight's bit of story. Hunching over a laptop or a notebook and dishing out words is a physically painful process.

I'd actually prefer to live in an even smaller city here in Korea, but I don't think that that would be possible so long as I'm seeing the Chica. I really want to work on some tiny little island and let Korea wash all over me, and wage my jihad against the mosquitoes.

Retiring is a whole new bag of chips.

[Universalis]

I'm living my ideal life in Korea right now. Own my own business doing something I love... set my own hours... don't have to wear a tie... life is good.

For perhaps the first time in my adult life, I look forward to the start of everyday and regret the end of it. Like Gary Rector wrote in a column a few years back, I found my own little American dream.... in Korea.

Brian

[katydid]

[OiGirl]