Korean Job Discussion Forums

[jweeke]

I probably would, but I wouldn't be [edit] re-signing. What about the rest of you?

[tanklor1]

Yes

[interestedinhanguk]

[itistime]

If you are here because you can't hold your own where ever you came from (and would much rather be there), you're playing yourself.


I like to travel.
Work 6 months or so, and take off. Good plan? Why suffer if you don't have to?

[Radius]

HELL-to-the-NO!!!! If i could have gotten a teaching job back home in the States Id still not know what 안녕 meant and be enjoying a way better standard of living.

[brento1138]

Hellz ya. I think Korea's sparkling.

[toonchoon]

yeah, i would still be here. came here in 2007, and after 6 months decided that I'd like to come back, and eventually find a way to get a job at the university.

i had family a bit ticked off, telling me to stay home and continue the "career" which I had left behind, but I had no interest in doing that. after all, one of the reasons I left my city in the USA.

[veac]

I am strongly against the American Dream of huge debt and an over sized house on mortgage. I hope the economy picks up just so these people leave Korea and it's an english teachers market again.

[comm]

I couldn't find a real job back in the States before deciding to come here. If I'd found one, I wouldn't have come. Now that I'm here there's no job I'd rather have. The only question now is how best to go about getting a masters in English or Education.

[Easy Rider]

In between the busom of a salty and buxom w-h-o-r-e dribbling beer down my chin and going


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah~!

And I would LOVE IT!

Where would YOU be OP?

[Louis VI]

I left a high paying, respected job in 2002 to go teach overseas. So the answer is yes.

No one would should make their decision based on "the economy" imo. You only need one job. If you want to go back home, go back home and get that job. Sure it may mean competition and hard work but you can do it.

[oldfatfarang]

Economic and personal reasons to get here - economic and personal reasons to stay. However, my 5 years is up in 132 days, and then I'm off - never to return. A pocket full of cash, some wonderful memories of teaching some really great kids. However, I'm really looking forward to freedom again.

Personally, I think TEFL/ESL is a trap for younger people. It's great for old guys like me (cruising down to retirement), but younger people who spend more than 1 year (2 max) as a TEFL teacher are wasting their best income earning years. TEFL is fun - but, ultimately, it's a road to nowhere.

Cue Homer.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[mmstyle]

Yes. I arrived, left, and came back before the crisis had fully hit. My husband and I have no plans to move back to my country or his in the foreseeable future. I love traveling, and plan to continue doing this in other countries. We are saving much more here than we would be back home (so in the end, not wasting our high income years) while experiencing things and places that would be much more difficult to from back home. That said, neither of us is geared toward making as much as we can, we are more about work/life balance. And, being here with a spouse really allows me to have that. If I hadn't met him here, I think I would have left for good the first time.

[pipprovis]

As a person who is considering taking the plunge I enjoy threads like this. I have under a year to wait and then I am going to make my move (if I am accepted of course). Like many young people (I'm an older youngin at twenty eight) my max earning potential days are a little ways off. For now its about life experiences and learning. Wish I had this attitude a few years ago...