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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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rockstarsmooth
Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Location: anyang, baybee!
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oh wait a minute!
i'm actually a real teacher, both in korea and in canada! i get paid quite well, i am in a position of authority at my school and i enjoy teaching and view it as a profession.
not to mention that nobody believes me when i say i'm 32, more like 25...
hehehe...
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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| y'know, for the past few years i've had to do some subtraction to figure out my age. ... |
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ChuckECheese
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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| rockstarsmooth wrote: |
oh wait a minute!
i'm actually a real teacher, both in korea and in canada! i get paid quite well, i am in a position of authority at my school and i enjoy teaching and view it as a profession.
not to mention that nobody believes me when i say i'm 32, more like 25...
hehehe...
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Hey boss! Can you fire Green Tea? Can you slap him around before you let him go?  |
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choc-ice
Joined: 20 Nov 2006
Location: bally mac boghole
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| im 21, doin this so i can go back to college at 23(FREE FEE'S) with a bit of money, few storys, and hopefully to curb my addiction to guinness. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Why does the poll stop at 35? |
My mistake. I figured nobody in their right mind would still be doing such a "young" type of job that pays so little. |
what makes teaching a young job? This is a profession and I consider myself a professional. I work hard and continually develop my skills and knowledge. If you don't see any value in this "job" then why not go back home and get yourself a McJob |
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Green Tea
Joined: 04 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| im 21, doin this so i can go back to college at 23(FREE FEE'S) with a bit of money, few storys, and hopefully to curb my addiction to guinness. |
How did you get a visa without a degree? |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds like Green tea has already got an inferiority complex about being an ESL teacher.
Get over it. It's a teaching job.
Some people take it seriously and are confident and happy about their career choice. Some don't take it seriously and spend their time in Korea feeling like they're killing time. Take your choice. |
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Ginormousaurus
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Green Tea wrote: |
| choc-ice wrote: |
| im 21, doin this so i can go back to college at 23(FREE FEE'S) with a bit of money, few storys, and hopefully to curb my addiction to guinness. |
How did you get a visa without a degree? |
I'm 24 now. I got here when I was 21. It is possible to have a degree at that age. |
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choc-ice
Joined: 20 Nov 2006
Location: bally mac boghole
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| oh sorry didnt know ye were talkin to me. i graduated this year-i was 17 when i went to college! |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, at least I don't feel so bad anymore. I'm 27 and I was starting to think that I was falling behind in life. But now I see that there are lots of older people who still do crap jobs like teaching in Korea. |
Well, let's see - I could borrow money from my parents to spend a year getting 'certified' by the PC Brigade in a department of eduction to be a teacher back home and work as a substitute teacher for three or four years before landing a permanent position, getting verbally abused by students and harranged by idiot parents. I could spent all day in a classroom with arrogant, lazy punks with the grandest sense of entitlement the world has ever known. After the government and union take half my paycheque and I pay the rent, utilities, and car payments I might have enough left over for the odd six pack.
Or I can be a high school teacher here, whose students start and finish each lesson by bowing to me, where most days disciplinary problems consist of confiscating hand mirrors, living in a town where my social status jumps way up the social totem pole whenever people find out who I am. And I can spend money on whatever I feeling like buying, go on great holidays, and still have plenty left over.
I'll take my crap job in Korea, thank-you very much. Perhaps you should stick to putting your uni degree and eight years of adult life experience to work making expresso instead.  |
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Oreovictim
Joined: 23 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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32.
i am such a total loser for being here in korea working at my crap job, for crap wages, and crap benefits. especially at my age.
i should just shoot myself in the head and be done with it.
man my life sucks.
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I hope that this is a joke. I'm 33, and I don't consider myself a loser. My only debt in life is a $4,000 student loan; I have a job; I have a kick-butt boss and coworkers, and most of my kids are cool, too.
Are you comparing yourself to the losers on MTV Cribs because you don't have their material possesions? "Yo-yo I gots a solid gold picture frame for my favorite piece of art in da house. Scarface! You gots to see it!"
Years from now, you'll have this adventure to talk about. I've known people who have lived in their same boring town for their whole life.
Think of the good things you've got. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| Sounds like Green tea has already got an inferiority complex about being an ESL teacher.... Some don't take it seriously and spend their time in Korea feeling like they're killing time.... |
Yeah that kind of person is so boring. There's so much more to teaching in Korea than the dosh.
Even for those of us who only do a small amount of time here (I'll do 4 years) I think there are so many things that are highly beneficial to teaching in Korea. I learned a new language, learned how to survive in a culture very different for mine and a lot about a country that is one of my home country's largest trading partners.
Not to mention in Korea there are plenty of ways to forge contacts with some high-flying business and government types if you know where to look because they are more accessable here that would be home. I've met a bunch of people (teachers and otherwise) that will continue to offer advice and support to me from around the world once I'm done here, and that sort of stuff is going to be golden as my move done my chosen career path.
But for those who choose to make teaching a career, I know of some people in some really sweet gigs who are having a great life here. Good on them. As you get older you stop worrying about what people think and more about doing what makes you happy. Life's too short to do anything else.
Teaching in Korea, like everything in life, is what you make of it. Smart people know that just about every experience can be used to your advantage later.
People like Green Tea who think it's just about the money miss out on a whole bunch of stuff because they are too small minded to see the oppourtunties. Oh well maybe they'll grow up. Either way I don't care, I'm having a great time here and know the experience will be of great use to me in the future. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| The Man known as The Man wrote: |
| Better yet, shoot Green Tea! |
Good call. |
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CabbageTownRoyals
Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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I arrived almost 4 years ago...
I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.....  |
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