Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Steelrails]

If one had to grow their own food and produce their own clothing and make their own shelter, then 40 hours a week for a life of comfort is not a lot of work.

[Slowmotion]

People need to stop taking these jobs so that these types of jobs will go away! But some jerk always has to take these crappy jobs

[LL Moonmanhead]

I leave the house at 730am and arrive home at 10pm every weekday.

I make a lot of money, so it is a trade off I'm willing to take. I helps that I love my job.

It does makes you live for the weekend though!

Going down to 40 hours a week would feel like going part-time.....

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[Steelrails]

[Slowmotion]

[Steelrails]

From an industry standpoint, let the open market decide things. If people will take the job, then fine. I don't see why I should be angry that someone takes that job. Good for them. If the pay is worth it, then do the work.

That said, I agree that the terms seem less than desirable, to put it mildly.

[Summer Wine]

I dont visit Seoul or Itaewon that often so I have always considered myself working a 24hr/7 day a week job. I live in Korea and so with the classes, the people who seem to think that you are a free language teacher, the bosses who ring you up at odd hrs to come drinking with the other teacher etc.

It never feels that you have two complete and separate lives. The work life and the personal life get muddled. There are also the language issues that remind you constantly that you are no longer in Kansas. The fact that your job can be affected by people outside the school or simply another hate fest from the society you live in.

The only times I truly feel I have left work is when that plane takes off from the airport. Thus for me, 40 hrs class time is too long as it doesn't take into account the rest of the time that you are at work.

It was explained to me once that worst part of living onsite, is that even during your free time, you are still not truly free from work responsibilities. Thats how Korea is.

Its also probably the reason that so many foriegners flock to Itaewon, so that even for a few hrs they can drink and forget (surrounded by all the foriegners) that they are actually still in Korea.

[smee18]

2.4mil won for 22 X 40mins ... public school is the bomb!

My advice, become a wall street bank, then the government will pay you trillions of dollars to commit fraud.

@Steelrails: "without (enforced) labor human beings become all sloth and decadence" ... lighten up Ayn Rand!!