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Yaya
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| Just know that China comes with its own problems. For example, you can expect to shave off five years of life expectancy if you live in pollution-infested Beijing. |
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happyinhenan
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Yaya wrote: |
| Just know that China comes with its own problems. For example, you can expect to shave off five years of life expectancy if you live in pollution-infested Beijing. |
Don't start this again. 
Have you any research that states living in Beijing temporarily (lets say up to 10 years) will shave five years off your life? |
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Qonny
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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| happyinhenan wrote: |
| Yaya wrote: |
| Just know that China comes with its own problems. For example, you can expect to shave off five years of life expectancy if you live in pollution-infested Beijing. |
Don't start this again.
Have you any research that states living in Beijing temporarily (lets say up to 10 years) will shave five years off your life? |
You are the Chinese Steelrails. Honestly, are you one of those people the CCP pays to go online and defend China? |
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happyinhenan
Joined: 01 Feb 2015
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Qonny wrote: |
| happyinhenan wrote: |
| Yaya wrote: |
| Just know that China comes with its own problems. For example, you can expect to shave off five years of life expectancy if you live in pollution-infested Beijing. |
Don't start this again.
Have you any research that states living in Beijing temporarily (lets say up to 10 years) will shave five years off your life? |
You are the Chinese Steelrails. Honestly, are you one of those people the CCP pays to go online and defend China? |
Not quite, I don't believe that people should take 'facts' out of their backside and present it as fact - for example a short stay in Beijing of one or three years will take five years off your life? It is complete and utter nonsense. |
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Smithington
Joined: 14 Dec 2011
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 5:20 pm Post subject: Re: US finally recovering? Maybe less teachers coming over |
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"less" teachers.  |
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Chaparrastique
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| My position and getting in at the right time sheilds me as I said before. |
You're a dinosaur teetering on the verge of extinction, your toehold is precarious.
All it takes is for a new manager to come along- an ajosshi who is scared of foreign men- and you'll be replaced by a blonde. Fired over some trumped up excuse or not renewed for reasons he can't quite bring himself to explain. |
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happyinhenan
Joined: 01 Feb 2015
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Chaparrastique wrote: |
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| My position and getting in at the right time sheilds me as I said before. |
You're a dinosaur teetering on the verge of extinction, your toehold is precarious.
All it takes is for a new manager to come along- an ajosshi who is scared of foreign men- and you'll be replaced by a blonde. Fired over some trumped up excuse or not renewed for reasons he can't quite bring himself to explain. |
Strange weigookin74 is holding on for dear life to his life in Korea. It will end soon wherever he wants it to or not. Best off getting his arse to China while he still can. I am sure Creeper1 will get him a job at his place.  |
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jazzmaster
Joined: 30 Sep 2013
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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| happyinhenan wrote: |
| Chaparrastique wrote: |
| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| My position and getting in at the right time sheilds me as I said before. |
You're a dinosaur teetering on the verge of extinction, your toehold is precarious.
All it takes is for a new manager to come along- an ajosshi who is scared of foreign men- and you'll be replaced by a blonde. Fired over some trumped up excuse or not renewed for reasons he can't quite bring himself to explain. |
Strange weigookin74 is holding on for dear life to his life in Korea. It will end soon wherever he wants it to or not. Best off getting his arse to China while he still can. I am sure Creeper1 will get him a job at his place. |
I'm in the same situation. I'm pretty sure the stress of having low job security is shaving five years off my life.  |
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happyinhenan
Joined: 01 Feb 2015
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| jazzmaster wrote: |
| happyinhenan wrote: |
| Chaparrastique wrote: |
| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| My position and getting in at the right time sheilds me as I said before. |
You're a dinosaur teetering on the verge of extinction, your toehold is precarious.
All it takes is for a new manager to come along- an ajosshi who is scared of foreign men- and you'll be replaced by a blonde. Fired over some trumped up excuse or not renewed for reasons he can't quite bring himself to explain. |
Strange weigookin74 is holding on for dear life to his life in Korea. It will end soon wherever he wants it to or not. Best off getting his arse to China while he still can. I am sure Creeper1 will get him a job at his place. |
I'm in the same situation. I'm pretty sure the stress of having low job security is shaving five years off my life. |
Marry your lovely lady and you can be at the trough for life! Open your own place and cut out the adjosshi waste of space middleman |
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Chaparrastique
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Marry your lovely lady and you can be at the trough for life! Open your own place and cut out the adjosshi waste of space middleman |
Not sure how much longer the golden trough will still be providing for the remaining few esl husbands.
Will you be ok in 2020 surviving on your cardboard collection, dance troupe and museum appearances? |
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happyinhenan
Joined: 01 Feb 2015
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Chaparrastique wrote: |
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| Marry your lovely lady and you can be at the trough for life! Open your own place and cut out the adjosshi waste of space middleman |
You think the golden trough will still be providing in 3,4 years from now? |
I think there will always be opportunities for Gyopos and people on permanent residency visas, it won't be like the 'good ol' days' but if one entrenches themselves here and is proactive about sticking it out long term - they will be cleaning up when they get rid of all the E-2 layabouts who stayed around 10 years or more with their thumb up their arse and their brains in neutral (like Weigookin).
If one wants a long term life in Korea, they need to sort something out in regards marrying a local, upgrading their quals or learning the language - will Korea turn into Taiwan regarding opportunities? I don't think it will get that bad but it will never return to 2002. |
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happyinhenan
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Chaparrastique wrote: |
Will you be ok in 2020 surviving on your cardboard collection, dance troupe and museum appearances? |
If you get a decent TOPIK score, an MA in TESOL from Ehwa and have an anchor within the country (permanent residence, marriage, citizenship) you'll never starve in Korea teaching English. It isn't going down the pan in the next 5 years.
However, if you can't manage basic Korean, have just a poli-sci degree from Pheonix University and have just been in the country long term on subsequent E-2 visas then get ready to say '안녕히 계세요' . That dog is certainly barking and now is the time to be proactive if they want to stay on. |
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Chaparrastique
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 1:29 am Post subject: |
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| happyinhenan wrote: |
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Will you be ok in 2020 surviving on your cardboard collection, dance troupe and museum appearances? |
If you get a decent TOPIK score, an MA in TESOL from Ehwa and have an anchor within the country (permanent residence, marriage, citizenship) you'll never starve in Korea teaching English. It isn't going down the pan in the next 5 years.
However, if you can't manage basic Korean, have just a poli-sci degree from Pheonix University and have just been in the country long term on subsequent E-2 visas then get ready to say '안녕히 계세요' . That dog is certainly barking and now is the time to be proactive if they want to stay on. |
You got married for a visa? How romantic. |
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happyinhenan
Joined: 01 Feb 2015
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Will you be ok in 2020 surviving on your cardboard collection, dance troupe and museum appearances? |
If you get a decent TOPIK score, an MA in TESOL from Ehwa and have an anchor within the country (permanent residence, marriage, citizenship) you'll never starve in Korea teaching English. It isn't going down the pan in the next 5 years.
However, if you can't manage basic Korean, have just a poli-sci degree from Pheonix University and have just been in the country long term on subsequent E-2 visas then get ready to say '안녕히 계세요' . That dog is certainly barking and now is the time to be proactive if they want to stay on.
You got married for a visa? How romantic.[/quote]
Now, now - be nice, don't be a *beep* and save the bile for Steelrails. 
No-one, not me anyway, is saying marry for a visa, but that offers more long term security that fartarsing around with basic qualifications, hoping that the Koreans need barely qualified native speakers to teach their citizens English over the long term is fanciful thinking at best. That is obviously going to end pretty soon. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| happyinhenan wrote: |
| Chaparrastique wrote: |
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| My position and getting in at the right time sheilds me as I said before. |
You're a dinosaur teetering on the verge of extinction, your toehold is precarious.
All it takes is for a new manager to come along- an ajosshi who is scared of foreign men- and you'll be replaced by a blonde. Fired over some trumped up excuse or not renewed for reasons he can't quite bring himself to explain. |
Strange weigookin74 is holding on for dear life to his life in Korea. It will end soon wherever he wants it to or not. Best off getting his arse to China while he still can. I am sure Creeper1 will get him a job at his place. |
Don't worry about me sonny boy. I'll have reached many of my targets soon enough. If it crashes and burns after that, it won't affect me. The flames are burning in Korea, but it's the low hanging fruit burning now. Eventualy those flames will spead and reach up here unless the fire brigade shows (ie changein circumstances). But at this point, I'd just as soon either go home, go to China, or marry a local and start an academy somewhere debt free and with a small amount of savings in bank account. |
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