Korean Job Discussion Forums

kchax · Joined: 01 Dec 2006

am curious on what you guys have in plan after all the teaching/saving/traveling?

im not interested in teaching for a career, here to travel/save and then go back to the good old usa eventually, hopefully soon.. am in my late 20s..

curious what you guys have in mind what to do when you get back to your home base???

Trinidad · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Location: Seoul

Just a tip. Never put "Teaching in Korea" on your resume if you want a
real job back home.

Cleaning up little Billy Kim's puke at snack time ain't gonna get you into
management.

VanIslander · Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 5:59 am Post subject:

The average person has 4 or 5 careers over their lifetime - to think that every one segues into the next is foolhardy.

(My father trained in the old country to be a mechanical engineer but his new country of Canada didn't recognize his education so he became a mechanic and thrived in it for nearly 40 years - that is rare.)

I was a journalist before English language teacher and a Philosophy grad student before that. It was not a course I set out for myself in high school. The next stage of my life, whether next year or five years from now, has yet to be determined despite ideas I have that verge on the sort of certainty I had when I thought I would be a pilot, oceanographer, ad exec, naval officer, small businessman, filmmaker.

Plans are a dime a dozen. The arc of one's life's a constantly changing angle. Or so it seems to me today.

English Matt · Joined: 12 Oct 2008

I want to work in the third sector in Europe - either for a human rights pressure group, a charity working to help refugees and asylum seekers in Europe, or an agency of the EU that works to help integrate disadvantaged minorities (such as the Roma).

I'm leaving Korea at the end of this contract to work on my German language skills in Berlin, and do an internship or two with the sorts of organisations I want to work for in the future, before refocusing my education towards my career goals by getting a Masters degree. After that, I'm going to keep plugging away at my French (which is pitiful at the moment) whilst looking for openings in my chosen field.

I may also, once my German is good enough, look to get certificated as a German-English translator and use that as a fallback to earn money in between times. Who knows, I might even have to end up doing TEFL again at some point in Europe....but hopefully only ever as a sideline whilst I'm waiting for something else. As others have said on this forum, TEFL can be a hell of a good fallback option to have.....although I don't want to return to Asia to teach, it just doesn't suit me very well here.

T-J · Joined: 10 Oct 2008 Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae

Retiring....

Konglishman · Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Location: Nanjing

Perhaps, I will start my own international school.

chickenpie · Joined: 24 Dec 2008

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yingwenlaoshi · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!

The Goalie · Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Location: Chungcheongnamdo

Just to chime in (because loose cannons deserve it),

average
Function: adjective
2b: not out of the ordinary: common <the average person>

What does this have to do with math?

Draz · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Location: Land of Morning Clam

michi gnome · Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Location: Dokdo

i don't give a shite what i do
as long as it's not demeaning, there is not some wankoff boss with a power trip breathing down my neck, and it pays the bills.
all i need is daily food, some clothes, & a roof over my head.

spend all your time planning a big career, then boom, you're given the axe, your job outsourced, etc...then you have to improvise. find yourself with a masters degree & washing dishes to keep from starving.

i have an advantage over most people in that i don't care about having a car, don't care about owning property, parents are dead and am not looking to start a new family.

tefl jobs are fairly easy to get. i will continue to travel and work in different countries. never saw myself staying in one place for 30 years, busting my hump to accumulate alot of monetary wealth, only to croak, but first question why the hell i wasted so many years of my life, as the government or bank takes hold of everything i worked so hard to save. whatever...

all you have is time. when i'm about to kick the bucket, it'll be better to have an interesting story to look back on, than a bunch of money sitting in the bank for nothing...

the key is to find work you half-way enjoy, and keep your soul alive by doing the work that is really yours (art, writing, music, brewing your own beer, or hell even ranting and raving in public with drool coming off your chin if thats what does it for you etc) in your free time.

Wiltern · Joined: 23 Sep 2009

Captain Obvious · Joined: 23 Oct 2009

Retire.