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jazzmaster
Joined: 30 Sep 2013
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I would head back home to see my family and friends. Then I'd take a couple of weeks rest at the family home in Spain (whereabouts in Spain are you located?).
During this time I'd think about what my next step would be.
It'd break my heart to leave my girlfriend though.  |
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robbie_davies
Joined: 16 Jun 2013
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| jazzmaster wrote: |
I would head back home to see my family and friends. Then I'd take a couple of weeks rest at the family home in Spain (whereabouts in Spain are you located?).
During this time I'd think about what my next step would be.
It'd break my heart to leave my girlfriend though. |
My place is in Zaragoza, in the Universidad barrio. I am not there personally at this moment in time though I like to spend as much time as there as possible. |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 3:22 am Post subject: Re: absurd thread |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| I always thought it was Japan that was the cat's meow, then Korea took over, then maybe in the next several years, it'll be China. |
In the mid nineties and prior, Japan, Taiwan, AND Korea all paid a ton of money. I just got done reading a story about a hagwon worker in 1988 in Korea (teaching adults and not working that many hours) who made 2,000 dollars a month (plus free flights and free housing). You know how much that is in today's money? Roughly $4,000. How much do hagwon workers make in 2013? It's nowhere near $4,000, and in fact is less then half of that. There has been a LONG and steady overall decline of wages in ESL, and not just in Asia. The same happened in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. Expect the decline to continue. |
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misher
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
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The decline has happened in N America too. Actually it is probably the worst.
It used to be an actual career. Now you can barely live on it. |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 5:29 am Post subject: |
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| My best recommendation is to master Korean ASAP if you want to keep working here. It's the best way to ensure one's stay and career here. |
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Popocatepetl
Joined: 14 Oct 2013
Location: Winter in Korea: One Perfect day after another
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| robbie_davies wrote: |
My place is in Zaragoza, in the Universidad barrio. I am not there personally at this moment in time though I like to spend as much time as there as possible. |
Why did you pick spain I wonder. Is your family Spanish? If not I assume you learned Spanish fluently? |
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robbie_davies
Joined: 16 Jun 2013
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| Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:11 am Post subject: |
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| Popocatepetl wrote: |
| robbie_davies wrote: |
My place is in Zaragoza, in the Universidad barrio. I am not there personally at this moment in time though I like to spend as much time as there as possible. |
Why did you pick spain I wonder. Is your family Spanish? If not I assume you learned Spanish fluently? |
Mum's side is Finnish! Dad's side is Welsh but he is 'dark Welsh' so could have.  I am from the West Midlands in England.
I love Spain though and there is loads of work. One thing is that there is the balance of living well or living hand to mouth if you have rent or mortgage to pay, once that is out of the way then you are laughing basically. |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 11:22 am Post subject: |
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Why did you pick spain I wonder. Is your family Spanish? If not I assume you learned Spanish fluently? |
Ha ha, there are about a million Brits living in Spain and I'd guesstimate around one percent of them speak Spanish fluently. |
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ilikekimchi
Joined: 11 Sep 2012
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| Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 6:37 am Post subject: |
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Luckily for me I have a DREAM JOB in Korea where I make more than a uni professor and I work less on top. My designer custom 3 piece suits, VIP clientele and office adored with accolades and achievements of my success speaks for itself.
I work for a huge company with branches in all corners of the globe. I've already been offered job transfers to exotic locations but have always refused them--mainly due to my smoking hot girlfriend.
Too bad you scrubs that never worked your way up in this country will be fending for 1.5 kindy hagwons, cleaning toilets to avoid getting an 11th month firing, working 9-7, throwing on a hanbok and bowing to your superiors for a measly envelope with 10k won inside, and being forced to teach ajummas pro bono on the weekends by your boss. Suckers. |
You constantly build your situation up and tear people down in your posts. You have an inferiority complex because you are inferior. |
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Ginormousaurus
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit
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| Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 6:45 am Post subject: |
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| I think you mean the character IPIC has an inferiority complex. You know he is just a troll, right? |
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I'm With You
Joined: 01 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:04 am Post subject: Re: If working in Korea became untenable. |
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| If it became so bad, it just turned into Taiwan with the only jobs being offered were the 8-6 in a kindy hagwon offering 1.8 million - that kind of bad - with 10 people and more applying for every vacancy. |
Davies,
You lost me with this sentence.
Are you saying that it got so bad for you that you shoved off to Taiwan for 1.8 Million a month at a buxiban?
I'm not following you here. |
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I'm With You
Joined: 01 Sep 2011
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| edwardcatflap wrote: |
| Ha ha, there are about a million Brits living in Spain |
I posted this tonight, I am amazed at the number of British TEFL'ers who love Spain and want to either move to Spain or who already have an apartment in Spain.
Why is Spain so popular with the British? |
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Ginormousaurus
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit
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| Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:14 am Post subject: Re: If working in Korea became untenable. |
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| I'm With You wrote: |
| robbie_davies wrote: |
| If it became so bad, it just turned into Taiwan with the only jobs being offered were the 8-6 in a kindy hagwon offering 1.8 million - that kind of bad - with 10 people and more applying for every vacancy. |
Davies,
You lost me with this sentence.
Are you saying that it got so bad for you that you shoved off to Taiwan for 1.8 Million a month at a buxiban?
I'm not following you here. |
 Are you serious? |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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I posted this tonight, I am amazed at the number of British TEFL'ers
Why is Spain so popular with the British? |
Sun, prices, proximity to the UK, relaxed lifestyle, food. It also used to be the extradition laws but I think they changed those recently. |
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aecd
Joined: 24 Mar 2013
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| Myanmar. |
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