Korean Job Discussion Forums

[morrisonhotel]

I signed for a second year. I doubt I'll sign for a third year as I have an internship offer in Seoul for when my contract ends - I may pick up a hagwon job or an afterschool job to fund my living expenses and just intern in the morning. I'm already planning my exit from Korea. I have offers at 6 universities for 2012 entry. I have three more places that I'm going to apply to later in the year when they open up for applications for 2012. One way or another, I'll be out of Korea by the summer of next year (or probably this November when my contract ends).

[cyui]

Stay for 2 years and then come back finish up the State Certified Board Tests then maybe do school psychology?

Btw, has anyone done the CA tests'?

[Died By Bear]

OP: you'll find as you get older, assuming you're under 27-28, that you must continue to develop and educate yourself as you move through your chosen professional career. I'd say get as much education as you possibly can afford before you're 35 so you don't have to do it later or regret you didn't do it when you were still young.

[rumdiary]

[chrisinkorea2011]

well to me, im going to stay a couple more years, i started my 2nd year in march, and met someone who i may very well spend my life with. Like the other person said, i did blow my money my first year a lot, i think when you first get here almost everyone gets sucked into that have fun period to go out and just party, drink, have fun.

now i will save up and also pave way for my masters degree, and possibly after move onto a PH.D. i really want to be a professor, either that or doctor. i still have plenty of time, this is simply a stepping stone in life! lol

[English Matt]

I think the question is not really what do you do after Korea, rather what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

The answer to the latter will tell you what you need to do after leaving Korea and will most likely be different for almost everybody.

I stayed in Korea for two years, saved up lots of money and then moved to Germany. I spent some months studying the language and then looked for a job. I recently found a job here and will now work at this job, save some more money, keep on improving my German and work on my other languages. Then next year or the year after I will return to university to study a Masters degree and after that hopefully find work either here or elsewhere in Europe (not the UK or Ireland) in the NGO sector.

Just work out what you want to do with your life and then figure out a route plan to get you there.....then you will know what to do after Korea.

[Auslegung]

I intended to stay in Korea for 18-24 months my first time, but a few months in to my first contract and terrible loneliness filling my time, I knew I'd leave after the contract. I've been back in America for 13 months, and have thought about Korea nearly every single day. I plan to be teaching in Gangnam by June, pay off all my credit cards in a year, then either continue amassing wealth in Korea to fund my master's in education, or bounce between America for 3 months and Korea for 12 months a couple times. With my master's I'll either teach at private schools or a crappy university in America, or at a uni in another country. God willing, that is.

[West Coast Tatterdemalion]

I really don't care what I do after Korea. I've got some money in the bank and am debt free. I will be moving to a coastal area(with nice warm beaches) and that is the only thing I care about regarding my post-Korea plans.

[Louis VI]

[cyui]

How useful has that German been :wink: ?

[murmanjake]

[Died By Bear]

[silkhighway]

[cyui]

I am sure you do. :shock:

Lucky for us, you don't know the exact wheareabouts of cyui.

[robinsoncrusoe]