Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Homer]

Great job here RR...but thanks for asking you are just one kind soul for caring about others that way....

[GaryCooper]

Somebody disagrees about occasionally coming in on weekends? It's not so horrible, really. This is not to say one should teach on the weekends or anything so organized as a full day's work. Uh-uh. However, my classroom can get pretty messy, and if I plan only during the regular work week, I don't necessarily get as much done as I'd like. Using part of a Sunday to organize my room or grade a few papers makes life as a whole better. I think at some point any teacher with regular classes must come in and do something on a weekend, though maybe it is for a couple of hours or so. There's no hard-and-fast rule about this. If any of you are able to do what the job requires in a typical Monday-through-Friday workweek (which, in my case, is Tuesday through Saturday), then my hat's off to you. I'd like to have your organizational skills! I can procrastinate and fall behind enormously, so using some of the weekend to catch up or to hone my skills helps me do what needs to be done in a way I can appreciate. And I know other teachers in Korea and back in the USA who do the same.

[TECO]

[livinginkorea]

I've always been able to do my work during the week. If I have to stay late then so be it but never on the weekends. I finish at 4.40 everyday so staying late is always an option. And besides I work in a public school. They are only opened on Saturday twice a month and soon that will get less and less I think.

Again as I said that's just me.

[Grotto]

Yeah I have no problem coming in on a weekend to prep for the week ahead...I just have a problem with them demanding it and not paying for it

[periwinkle]

I'd say I have a decent job, but there's no job security- just contract renewal once a year. If there was job security, I'd say I have a great job.

[JongnoGuru]

I got all the job security I could want, but my retirement pension plan blows, my boss is a world-class jerk who has cheated me out of vacation time nearly ever year, and he treats everyone else like his own personal servant. I tell you, I have no compunction about stealing from the office, and I know I'd go straight to prison if he ever peeked in my garage, tool shed or den. Company property piled high & deep. It's the only way I can think of to get back at that hard-assed slave-driver.

[Homer]

I'd say I have a decent job, but there's no job security- just contract renewal once a year. If there was job security, I'd say I have a great job.

Actually you have great job security....due to the high demand for teachers that will simply continue. That means there are more jobs than teachers...how much more of a favorable employment market do you want?

I see that as a form of job security.