Korean Job Discussion Forums

[jajdude]

Ever feel like you are just wasting time? Or counting time? A lot of the time I feel this way. Sometimes it is at work, sometimes not.

[just because]

I usually am on here or other places on the net if I'm killing time.

[kangnamdragon]

read a book

[mindmetoo]

Time wasters: Visit a new Starbucks. Visit a subway station you've never seen the outside of and exit and walk around.

[Son Deureo!]

You mean do I ever feel like I'm stuck in a dead end job in a country with limited career prospects, doing great in the short-term but screwing myself over in the long-term? Sure, I think a lot of ESL teachers here feel that way.

I guess the questions to ask yourself is "What are my long-term goals? Am I achieving them in Korea?"

It may sound a bit trite, but I feel like I have to have some kind of answers to these questions in order to go on here. How about you?

[jajdude]

Long term goals? Something to think about.

Sometimes it feels like the job itself is a waste of time. Ah well, some kids learn some English. Somehow.

Other than reading, TV, internet, drinking, and wandering around, boredom seeps in.

[nev]

If you're wasting time at work, at least you're making money from it. Do the best with what you have.

If you're wasting time in your spare time, it's time to change lifestyle. There are hundreds of things to do that will make you enjoy your time and feel as though your time is productive. Here are some:

Learn Korean.
Learn some other language.
Go to the gym.
Read a book.
Write a book.
Learn to cook.
Meet a friend.
Learn to draw well.
Learn to play a musical instrument.
Take up dancing.
Swim.
Buy a catapult and pelt passers-by with stones.


I would also recommend getting rid of your TV and perhaps internet connection too. They are instruments of wasted time. After a week without, and with a couple of pastimes to replace them with, you'll never want them in your home again.

[captain kirk]

People thought I was a little nuts (but who gives a rip what Koreans think, severely conformist they are, right?), but ya gotta do what makes time fly, and the year flew by studying how to, and making loads of varieties of different boomerangs. Never had a year whip by like that in Korea.
Re; pelting things, the last suggestion of the previous poster. Look at these guys, they're using a trebouchet!

http://windward.org/notes/notes63/wal63_a.htm

So I'm on solo retreat for a month during a two month break from Korea studying/doing 'remote viewing' with a correspondence course pack, right? (speaking of stuff to get interested in!). And near the monastery is its sports center, which has two handball courts, a weight room, hockey rink, and arena for stuff like indoor soccer.

On the way to the weight room and there's a guy, sitting on a bench outside the handball courts, fixing his armour. Yes, that's right. He had a steel helmet and was using a small anvil and a steel hammer to do some riveting. He was waiting for two other members of a 'society for creative anachronism' meeting, where they'd, wearing their armour, whack each other with replicas of broadswords. He is totally into this. His breastplate a reproduction of one in a museum in Italy. Up to his eyeballs in this stuff.
His fellow club members didn't show up. He was disappointed. This was an hour drive from his city, he's so keen. The other guys were from the neighbouring small town, 300 people.
Maybe their wives wouldn't let them out to play?

This guy is unemployed in Canada, by the way, he said. Sure didn't put a dent in his passion for making Medieval armour and weapons and 'going to battle'. Unemployed one ought to be depressed, right? Not him, not this knight, no way.
Sure he's 'crazy' and 'wasting his time'. Haha, but he's having a blast obviously.

[peemil]