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flash viego
Joined: 20 Jan 2013
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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(not sure how to do the quote thing for 2 quotes.)
Vocational sounds very interesting. That's the first I have heard of that in Korea, and would have never expected they learned English as well. Sounds very interesting.
Thanks for the kind words. I do take everything with a grain of salt. One thing about being older is the realization that with any job, experience makes you better. Your first year, I would imagine, could be tough in many ways, but like anything else, you get better with experience. When you are good at something, you start to really enjoy what you do.
I love making connections with people, and helping them. I can't imagine what that's going to be like in a foreign culture clear across the world. I don't think I've ever been more sure of anything.
Cheers guys. |
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earthquakez
Joined: 10 Nov 2010
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| For those who are thinking of China, www.rong-chang.com has a boatload of jobs tho I don't know how good they really are. I'd say it's time to let the Koreans keep making demands and exit to a growing market where salaries and conditions are going up. |
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postfundie

Joined: 28 May 2004
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 2:53 am Post subject: |
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| I have never lived outside of the USA, and I always wanted to, so I could not think of a better thing for me to do. |
I wish more people back home had this attitude.
Age can be an asset as you have had lots of experience talking with people and presumably real life business experience....unlike someone straight out of college who has never had a real job. |
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BroodingSea
Joined: 21 Oct 2008 Location: North Shields
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| At 42 years old, You should probably go back home and focus on a retirement job and leave the Peter Pan lifestyle behind. Unless you have a family here. |
I wish people like this would be banned; they are usually the sorts of incapable drunks which huge chips on their shoulders and more often than not, fall into the very category of person they purport to criticise. |
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byrddogs

Joined: 19 Jun 2009 Location: Shanghai
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 3:28 am Post subject: |
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| Dodge7 wrote: |
| At 42 years old, You should probably go back home and focus on a retirement job and leave the Peter Pan lifestyle behind. Unless you have a family here. |
I wish people like this would be banned; they are usually the sorts of incapable drunks which huge chips on their shoulders and more often than not, fall into the very category of person they purport to criticise. |
Apparently you aren't very familiar with D7. That is his thing; his calling from above even. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Dodge7 wrote: |
| At 42 years old, You should probably go back home and focus on a retirement job and leave the Peter Pan lifestyle behind. Unless you have a family here. |
At any age, the economy sucks back home. There were a lot more 50 and 60 something teachers here before the recession, especially in the mid sized cities and rural areas. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| earthquakez wrote: |
| For those who are thinking of China, www.rong-chang.com has a boatload of jobs tho I don't know how good they really are. I'd say it's time to let the Koreans keep making demands and exit to a growing market where salaries and conditions are going up. |
You make a good point. I'm still making a higher than average salary. But many employers over there are starting to match Korea. Some are still lower but going up more and more. |
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I-am-me

Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Location: Hermit Kingdom
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I came to Korea when I was 39. Friend came when he was 55. Only reason he finally left Korea was his age at 64. He was way over the retirement age of Koreans. Just comply with the requierments and you can get a job. |
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