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Grotto
Joined: 21 Mar 2004
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First year I started counting at about the 9 month mark....90 days and counting.
The following year I started counting at 180 days...crap hogwan, crap boss and crappy location REI Taebaek Gangwon-do.
My last year I started counting about 60 days but that was more to motivate me to go out and do things, buy some things that I had planned on buying and get together with friends before I left. That last 60 days flies by when you're having fun |
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Hobophobic
Joined: 16 Aug 2004
Location: Sinjeong negorie mokdong oh ga ri samgyup sal fighting
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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| 5 months left of 5 years in....I'm counting....I need a break, and I am outta here come Fall...I think I hear the pension fairy knocking on my door....gonna have a real beer with her real soon... |
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Snowkr
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
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I like my school a lot and I am not discontented here.
I am here doing field work for my masters in TESOL. I was only required to be here 6 months for the course but I couldn't find a contract for under a year. I debated trying an "amicable break" of my contract and pay for airfare both ways but that wasn't advised.
My 6 months finished in January. That's when I started counting. I've already recieved the credit points for my class and now I guess I'm feeling counterproductive at times... like I could be working at home in a more multi lingual setting instead of here teaching English to kids.
Once again, I REALLY admire those of you who continue to stay here for more than a year. Is it for the culture, the money, the experience... or what? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Snowkr wrote: |
| here 6 months for the course but I couldn't find a contract for under a year. |
Too bad.
There's a hagwon near THIS beach, Hyeopjae on Jeju, that likes six month contracts:
From April to October... oh, it's so tempting... |
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deessell
Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Counting....you bet! The money and the days.....Outta here in 6 weeks. Me and my booty are off to pimp it around Latin America. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Nope, only counting the days til contract renewal. |
Same here, I get a free ticket home and back when I renew. |
Same boat.
More money next contract too - 300k more to be precise!
So I'm gonna have a vacation on a Phucket beach and then come back to Sar-ool, happy as pig in s**t.
It's a hard life.  |
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CaptainConjunction
Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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New school, 10 days into my contract and I'm counting the days till I leave. 
The school is better than most, but still a distant second to going back home and starting up my own business. Wish I could leave earlier, but I need to save some cash first. |
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