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pocketfluff
Joined: 30 May 2006
Location: Washington, DC (school) and Los Angeles, CA (home)
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 Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:56 pm Post subject: Re: A Korea Free Zone??? |
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| drumpounder wrote: |
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I spend enough time in school. I don't want to talk about it on my free time.
How do you all feel about this?  |
It seems as if you do not enjoy your line of work.
I've observed this type of sentiment in a lot of people who don't enjoy what they do -- be it work, school, raising children (yes, I've met parents who do not like their children  ).
I'm grad-school age; all my peers not seeking higher education are employed, and boy do they hate talking about their jobs. The few who absolutely love what they do for a living can't sing its praises enough.
Not only am I of grad-school age, I'm in grad school - law school, to be exact. In my experience, the miserable ones are the ones most likely to shoot down conversation about what they spend most of their time doing.
It's natural to talk about what you do during most of the day; those who repress such conversation are usually the ones who simply don't like doing it. |
I agree with your statement there. I do like teaching, but not at my school. I'm not sure anyone would. Certainly none of the other 8 foreigners I know and associate with around here. |
'Kay, fair enough.
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| I don't think 22 hours a week constitutes 'most of my time'. |
I said either "spend most of their time doing," or "what you do [for a living]" -- doesn't matter if you spend 22 hours a week teaching; if that's what you do for a living at this moment, my statement still stands.
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| In your experience miserable people crap on their livelihoods. How much experience is that? You are of grad school age and in grad school. How old is that. 25? When I was your age you were sitting on your mommy's floor in a diaper full of crap. |
My life experiences aren't worth anything simply because I'm younger than you? Here I was, answering your initial question "how do you feel about this?" -- totally unaware that it actually meant "how do you people over the age of 25 feel about this?" A thousand apologies, harabuhgee.
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Just what the world needs...another lawyer  |
Oh my, and here I was thinking that I'd give a bit of my background to illustrate where I was coming from to sincerely answer your question. Had no idea that future lawyers were not welcome to this post. But as they say, people will have a hate-on for lawyers until they need one.
P.S. <--this guy needs to be shot in the head. |
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pegpig
Joined: 10 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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| pocketfluff wrote: |
| P.S. <--this guy needs to be shot in the head. |
There ya go. Hope that works for you. |
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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: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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not talking about school... work... yeah that's understandable and cool
but not talking about Korea? about the world around us everyday?
sounds a bit oppressive, easy to do only for bubble boy
topics of conversation often have to do with what we see, where we go, who we meet, etc.
but I guess people who know you quickly learn to avoid talking about subjects that just make you roll your eyes |
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drumpounder
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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| I didn't expect such venom. I was born in Canada, grew up in Europe, travelled through 36 countries thus far and speak 4 languages. Perhaps the world around me is just a wee bit bigger eh! |
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