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Red
Joined: 05 Jul 2004
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 Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Gorgias wrote: |
| A lot of us have forgot about "making a living." Many younger folks have been fed so full of high dreams and aspirations that we sometimes forget that some people, myself included, just want to make a living. I don't want to be a Doctor, a Lawyer, or an Indian Chief; or what ever highfalutin dream one might have latched onto. If working in a super market pays the bills, keeps you fed and pays the child support, then great. If teaching in Korea is how you're gonna make a living, super; don't make a simpleton's life seem like some big ol' drama of opportunity and possibilities. Your options are pretty limited, and your goals are not far beyond just having a roof over y'r head. Or maybe I'm the only one who won't be driving a BMW to a posh office in Paris next year. |
Shhh... stop making sense. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| Rock wrote: |
To refute Eamo, I'd like to ask if WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW YOU'RE LOSING BY WASTING YOUR TIME IN ASIA, namely this being your future, career, social opportunity, and lack of recognition and identity, when and if you do return home, has ever crossed your mind?
Are you in the same frame of mind as me, thinking, "I'm just throwing my life away" being in Asia?
"Teenage muck" is exactly what a person endures when they feel the adult-hood the litany above presents and vies with Jame's Joyce's feeling, "You Can Never Return/Go Home(Again.)" |
I think he's doing the opposite of wasting his life away over here. Just a hunch. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:03 am Post subject: |
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| Rock wrote: |
I have to go with what Gorgias said. Thanks Gorgias, I think this applies.
(1)About the "slave mentality" I talked about, I meant the droves of people with dour looks who are expected to be where they're at in life, because those before them(the successful ones,) have succeeded the same way(by hard, grueling labor, ie., menial labor)and this is the only solution. Don't you feel as if you're bucking the system then, in a sense?
(2) I'm not saying menial labor is all I've got, although I look at "the successful ones" and jobs that would require me to be just as financially successful and find the pay just won't pan out for a good time to come yet, unless I slave my way through life. You have to have work experience back home in order to work your way up, so this is what I meant by "wasting your future."
(3) But I'm not asking for anyone to decide for me to stay, or come to Korea either. One thing you have to know is that many an opportunity exists back in your homeland, and your options are unlimited. But I'm pinpointing the practical aspects of life verses the idealistic. Is it that people back home just don't realize this, or people living abroad?
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(numbers are mine)
1. Not really. Because where I am working now is Korea, and I am working in the Korean "system".
2. "Wasting your future". No matter where you are or what you are doing, you are only "wasting your future" if you chose to do that. You can start playing the stock market (first become educated on this topic if you are not already) and building up a solid base of investments for your eventual retirement or return. Or you can learn Korean and branch out into other jobs which require a good command of both languages. There are many possibilities. If you just go to work, collect a paycheck and go to the bar after work hours, then yes that could be called "wasting your future". But if you are doing something productive and something that you enjoy how could anyone call that wasting your time?
3. If you truly feel that many opportunities exist back in your homeland and your options are unlimited, then what are you doing deciding to come here? Particularly if you feel this is "wasting your future'? Which is more important to YOU, the "practical aspects of life" or the "idealistic" ones? |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| Zyzyfer wrote: |
| Rock wrote: |
To refute Eamo, I'd like to ask if WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW YOU'RE LOSING BY WASTING YOUR TIME IN ASIA, namely this being your future, career, social opportunity, and lack of recognition and identity, when and if you do return home, has ever crossed your mind?
Are you in the same frame of mind as me, thinking, "I'm just throwing my life away" being in Asia?
"Teenage muck" is exactly what a person endures when they feel the adult-hood the litany above presents and vies with Jame's Joyce's feeling, "You Can Never Return/Go Home(Again.)" |
I think he's doing the opposite of wasting his life away over here. Just a hunch. |
Hehehe......Nice one Zyzyfer.
Rock might not realise, because it hasn't happened to him, that some of us are living very productive lives in Korea.
Korea has given me a beautiful wife, a good job and a sense of well-being that I never felt at home.
I do bash Korea on occasion but I'm very happy with my life here. Care to differ? Why? You're not me. |
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