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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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Never! You can't ever quit! SimCity is just that addictive! 
Seriuosly, a man has a profession and a business. Profession is the job you have (ESL in this case) and business is your dream (urban planning). You never stop living your dream. Rearranging your furniture is urban planning. Improving garbage pickup in your neighbourhood is urban planning. And yes, playing SimCity is urban planning, too.  |
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Threequalseven
Joined: 08 May 2012
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| Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 2:06 am Post subject: |
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| andrewchon wrote: |
Never! You can't ever quit! SimCity is just that addictive!
Seriuosly, a man has a profession and a business. Profession is the job you have (ESL in this case) and business is your dream (urban planning). You never stop living your dream. Rearranging your furniture is urban planning. Improving garbage pickup in your neighbourhood is urban planning. And yes, playing SimCity is urban planning, too. |
Haha, I wish SimCity was urban planning. Planning is more like being one of those advisers in the game and having most of your good ideas shut down.
But honestly, whatever happens will require sacrifice. I did a quick job search in my state after I wrote this, and found a job I would actually qualify for (without a masters degree). Unfortunately, it's in a city of less than 2,000 people and it would be a 2 1/2 hour drive to the nearest city over 100,000 people. I can't imagine moving from the skyscrapers of Asia to some no-mans-land like that. The difficult thing about moving to a different part of the country is that you have to drive all the way there just for the interview. |
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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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I think you'll eventually tire of teaching ESL.
Maybe you get the job in the 2000 people town, then move to bigger and better things after that. |
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12ax7
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Who's Your Daddy? wrote: |
I think you'll eventually tire of teaching ESL.
Maybe you get the job in the 2000 people town, then move to bigger and better things after that. |
Yes, very wise advice. I know plenty of people who've done it and I kick myself for not trying to do the same. |
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robbie_davies
Joined: 16 Jun 2013
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You don't 'give up' on your dreams as such, you evolve as a person. Between 14-25, I wanted to be world heavyweight boxing champion, because I didn't doesn't mean my life has been ruined as a result. I have mentally evolved and realised that being a world heavyweight boxing champion brings with it its own bucket of shit to carry around. Being world heavyweight boxing champion is no better or worse than being an ESL teacher (shock horror!) it just has a different set of problems.
Like a West Brom player I used to know who spent all his savings on the gee gees - he is still something of a local hero as he played for the Baggies but I wouldn't swap his grim existence now for what I have now.
There is nothing wrong with teaching ESL, do you know how many people back home would saw their right bollock off to live the life of an exapt rather than exist in some grey town with grey skies living with people with grey faces? Living abroad was a dream of mine as a kid because I wanted to escape the grey and now I am doing it. |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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robbie_davies
Joined: 16 Jun 2013
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Yeah, but why limit yourself to staying at the eikaiwa or the hagwon? Why not go and take some more qualifications and get a better paid job, EFL is still a growth industry. Is sitting on a poli-sci degree teaching English into your 50's a daft idea? And I would agree that it is. A 50 year old who has took related postgraduate degrees and partook in personal development isn't going to be short of options - in my opinion. |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| When you wake up... |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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I remember studying her story in TIME for my English lessons in 70's. Well done. 
Now the next challenge: swim the Republican-Democratic divide. |
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Zulethe
Joined: 04 Jul 2008
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What would you be willing to risk if there was no chance of failure?
That's how you must think.
Remember, It's never too late to be what you could've been. |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Zulethe wrote: |
What would you be willing to risk if there was no chance of failure?
That's how you must think.
Remember, It's never too late to be what you could've been. |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QsNXd57Ppw |
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chellovek
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| lol, philosophy is now just a "throw-away" degree. Thousands of years of extremely talented people, some of the best to have ever lived, giving their best thoughts on almost everything, not least what makes a dignified and meaningful life for the short and (presumably) only time we'll ever live, but now it's to be thrown away because it doesn't get some precious dear a job in an office. What *beep* has this species become? hahaha |
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I'm With You
Joined: 01 Sep 2011
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Reminds of what Bukowski said about this sort of thing in his poem titled, Roll the Dice!
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If you’re going to try, go all the way.
otherwise, don’t even start.
if you’re going to try, go all the way.
this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.
go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
it could mean freezing on a
park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.
isolation is the gift,
all others are a test of your
endurance, of
how much you really want to
do it.
and you’ll do it
despite rejection and the worst odds
and it will be better than
anything else
you can imagine.
if you’re going to try,
go all the way.
there is no other feeling like
that.
you will be alone with the gods
and the nights will flame with
fire.
do it, do it, do it.
do it.
all the way.
all the way.
you will ride life straight to
perfect laughter, its
the only good fight
there is. |
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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 8:50 pm Post subject: Re: When is it okay to give up on your dreams? |
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| Threequalseven wrote: |
| When is it okay to give up on your dreams? |
There's no time like the present. |
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