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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| The OP is not earning enough income to qualify for that visa. The F299 is not as easy to get as one would initially suspect. |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| Chaparrastique wrote: |
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| Not to toot my horn overtly, but the sales staff compliment me because my classes continue to bring them commissions. |
You're what happens when someone likes their job and stays in it for a few years. It is a shame Korea does not usually value or appreciate people like you. Most employers would happily trade in an experienced teacher for a younger clueless one. |
Hagwon owners don't care if you're black or white, young or old, male or female. All they care about is whether you're going to make them a profit or not. If they already have a teacher who's keeping students enrolled then they aren't likely to replace him just to have some eye candy. The only reason that they prefer to hire young attractive teachers is so that they can get more students. BUT they know that no matter how many new students a teacher attracts, it's worthless if they can't hold onto those students.
Since the OP is teaching university students, it's probably less of a priority for the school to hire a young blond girl. They like to hire women for little kids because parents consider them more kind and motherly. They like to hire young women for business English classes because middle aged men like to look to have something nice to look at. But even with BE classes, most schools would take someone with business training/experience over a teacher with a hot body because they know that they can advertise the teacher with business experience better. |
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noumenalself
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| World Traveler wrote: |
| The OP is not earning enough income to qualify for that visa. The F299 is not as easy to get as one would initially suspect. |
How much do you have to make? Have you applied? |
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kingplaya4
Joined: 14 May 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:14 am Post subject: |
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| Ask for more money or at least a better schedule. If this to both would be know: I would proceed like this "I appreciated working under you and the kids here were great to teach and I'll miss them, but I need to look towards my future. Again thanks for offering me the job and being willing to resign me, but I think I need to move on at this point. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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| BackRow wrote: |
9 yeas, making 2.3...
Time to bail |
Seriously.
If sales staff are happy because the topic creator is increasing enrollment, it should be a walk in the park to negotiate a more tolerable salary. |
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chaz47
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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My neighbors are noisy as hell sometimes, I live 10 minutes walk from a university, and I only got 4 hours of sleep last night. I've moved once already and this new room was a condition of me signing on again for the present year. Unfortunately I now have two ass-tards living in the tiny 8pyeong room next to me. I've complained several times but there's only marginal improvement and they always start up again eventually. Usually by the time I finish my first block they are just waking up from their stupors and shouting it up again so sleep between classes is also problematic.
I attempted to begin new contract negotiations early so they could find a new room while uni classes are out of session but my manager (who is at another branch) seemed to be ignoring me... until I told him that they either gotta find me a new room or change my schedule or I'll quit.
Right now my first class is at 6:50AM and it's mostly workers at the nearby industrial area who claim that they need the early class but also come to the evening classes if they are too tired to come to the morning classes. If they allowed me to start at 9AM (as the other branch does), I'd still probably have enough sleep time even with my ass-tard neighbors, or better yet I could live far enough way from the university that noisy student soju swillers should be a non-issue. He said he'd look into it but I doubt they'll agree to my terms.
Perhaps some time in Saudi to pad my savings is in order. |
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chaz47
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Yay! So, they've agreed to change the start time for my first block. I'll be starting at the rather tolerable time of 9am. In my experience, this will be very awesome and very rare. Now I just need to make it through the next few weeks without taking a claw hammer to the jackasses who live next door. |
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Chaparrastique
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 6:22 am Post subject: |
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| Troglodyte wrote: |
Hagwon owners don't care if you're black or white, young or old, male or female. All they care about is whether you're going to make them a profit or not. If they already have a teacher who's keeping students enrolled then they aren't likely to replace him. |
Good theory but in practise the Korean way is to have a boss who is totally out of touch making all the decisions.
If managers and supervisors were the ones running the show things would be different. But too often they live in abject fear of some distant all-powerful old ajosshi- who does nothing but read the newspaper all day and rarely leaves his armchair.
I've worked at several schools in korea and all that ever mattered was wether the headmaster/ boss liked me or not- usually based on very superficial brief impressions.
I was very popular at my High school but was let go because the head master wanted a blonde woman (so my spies told me).
At another school I also pulled in students but was let go because after two years simply because they wanted a new face.
At a hakwon I got shunted on because I was not deferential enough to the boss apparently (despite being the students favourite teacher).
If there's one thing I've learned about Korea: work performance is irrelevant, creating the right impression with whoever is at the top is all that matters. |
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