Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Ribena]

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[naturegirl321]

Criminal record checks from the UK may be easy, but my friend had to spend a couple hundred pounds to get hers. Some people don't want to spend that kind of cash.

Anyways, back to the OP: look into uni jobs and public schools, pay and benefits seem to be better.

[robinsoncrusoe]

OP: I personally wouldn't take the 2.1 mil offer because the hours are ridiculous, but I wouldn't keep waiting on the sideline passing up offers. Employers absolutely know the ball's in their court when it comes to hiring right now, but it comes down to where your personal threshold level is. If you had to choose between taking the 2.1 offer and continuing whatever it is you are doing now, how would you choose? What if the offer was 2.0? Are you currently unemployed? It's a case-by-case basis because we each have our own thresholds for what is and isn't acceptable.

i don't have the best offer in the world, but it gets me out of unemployment and living in my parent's basement for a third straight year post-college. It's a pretty low offer for the hours I have, but it was hurting my confidence to continue working free internships and getting paid with pity from my bosses: ("hey robinson, you've been such a fantastic help these last 6 months, i'd totally hire you on the spot...if we had room in our budget. but just know i'd totally hire you right this second if i could.")

also, do you absolutely have to be in Seoul? Would you be willing to expand your search to Daegu, Ulsan, Pohang, Busan, Gwangju, etc?

[decolyon]

[chrisinkorea2011]

[decolyon]

[Ribena]

[sirius black]

Methinks some of you doth protest too much. All this 'you'll be crazy if you took this' or 'desperate' if you take this is often masking a fear that these types of jobs may become the new standard.
Personally, I wouldn't take it but that doesn't mean its a bad job for someone else, just not a good one for you. I wouldn't criticize someone for taking it. If they want to do it for the pay, so be it. There are plenty of worse jobs in our home countries and its often the case that many recent grads in our countries take a job that doesn't pay what they would like, doing something they think is beneath a BS or BA holder as a means to an end. Either just to get a paycheck after not being able to find a job in our field or taking any old job in our field just to get a toe in and experience and hoping to move up or use the experience for the next job.

I couldn't do a kindie job but I find nothing wrong with someone who wants to do it. Its an honest days work.

So, lets be honest about the outrage. Its your fear that the 'party' is over and 'gulp'...may have to go back home and get a 'real' job. And we don't want someone to take those jobs as a passive aggressive form of protest against those types of jobs.

[West Coast Tatterdemalion]

No fear here. I'll be going home and getting a job, might be better than Korea or might be worse. I don't really care. And I don't care about the job market here. If people are dumb enough not to research and take jobs with split shifts and make a paltry 2.1 million per month, then the hagwons should exploit them. All I am telling you is that I would never accept a job that pays such a measly amount for such absurd working hours and having to deal with Kindy. Kindy is a massive money maker here and these hagwon owners are laughing all the way to the bank. This isn't taking a job in Korea in the early 90's when there was no internet or forums like this one. People today have no excuses to take such crap jobs.

[hubbahubba]

[Ribena]

I think this forum is rather unfair, in the UK jobs are hard to come by and it doesn't matter if you've been to university it usually counts for very little. There is no point getting upity and saying someone with a degree should expect a certain amount. Many people that went to uni in this country do minimum wage jobs (working in supermarkets/call centres etc) because they have to. There is no shame in that, less so that those content to live on benefits because they consider certain work beneath them.

I've been to university and I've done plenty of crappy jobs in my time.

[decolyon]

[austrian123]

No one is forcing anyone of you guys to stay and work in Korea. If you don't like the conditions or wages being offered, you do have the option to go back and find work at home. What is very amusing is the sense of entitlement that some of you seem to have being foreigners in Korea. You are not hollywood stars, but rather E2 Visa holders who are in Korea because you're having trouble finding work back home. I'd be a little more grateful if I were you. I'd like to see a little less whining and complaining and instead see a sense of gratitude that your are employed all.

[ZIFA]