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Youngben88
Joined: 19 Jul 2013
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 Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 12:05 pm Post subject: Teacher's ages... |
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What do you reckon is the average age of a NET?
How common/unusual is it for a teacher to be 23? |
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fustiancorduroy
Joined: 12 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| 23 is on the younger end of the spectrum but I'd imagine there are a fair number of teachers here that age. I came to Korea at the ripe old age of 22 myself. |
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alongway
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| Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| 24-26 I'd say. There is 50% turnover each year and I suspect that most of the new teachers who come in are on the younger end, usually fresh out of school, so come over 22-23, stick around a couple years, mixed in with all the new fresh off the boats, and yeah you've got a pretty young crowd. There are plenty of long termers here, but they tend to get married and move on to other stuff, so your hagwon/public school teacher is trending very young. Mainly because it won't support a long termer who gets a family. |
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Rockhard
Joined: 11 Dec 2013
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| Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 12:23 am Post subject: |
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| All ages, my son. Hagwons are bottom level so lots of young twenty-somethings. In the circles I run in the average age is 35. It's not unusual to see 40+ guys doing corporates. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:09 am Post subject: |
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| alongway wrote: |
| 24-26 I'd say. There is 50% turnover each year and I suspect that most of the new teachers who come in are on the younger end, usually fresh out of school, so come over 22-23, stick around a couple years, mixed in with all the new fresh off the boats, and yeah you've got a pretty young crowd. There are plenty of long termers here, but they tend to get married and move on to other stuff, so your hagwon/public school teacher is trending very young. Mainly because it won't support a long termer who gets a family. |
A lot of older teachers say this, but I came over at 23 and was the youngest teacher at my school for two years, while most of the folks I encountered out and about were late twenties. I think most who come to Korea have been stuck in dead-end jobs for quite some time first. |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:48 am Post subject: |
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| I'm meeting more hot blonde twenty year olds these days. (Yes, twenty years old.) They come over through the TALK program. |
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Ginormousaurus
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:02 am Post subject: |
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| I was 21 when I arrived. |
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J Rock
Joined: 17 Jan 2009
Location: The center of the Earth, Suji
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| Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:09 am Post subject: |
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| I was 25 almost 26 when I first landed in the land of the morning kimchi diarrhea. I just turned 33 last month and now I feel old. Definitely too old to be teaching screaming kindy kids. |
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Youngben88
Joined: 19 Jul 2013
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| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:54 am Post subject: |
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So I was pretty young to have just turned 23 I guess?
Hmm... Wish I had stuck it out now... |
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