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| What do you want to do? |
| I want to keep teaching English, it's easy and fun. |
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| I want to go home as soon as the contract is over. |
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| Maybe stay for a few more years, we'll see. |
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| I want to be a celebrity in Korea. |
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| I want to start my own hagwon. |
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| I want to get a job in a company that has nothing to do with English teaching. |
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| I want to go to university in Korea and study for a long time. |
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| Something else. |
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krats1976

Joined: 14 May 2003
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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You didn't list foreign schools!!
That's where it's at folks. A few years here and I'll have the student loans paid off and valuable experience that'll get me a job just about anywhere I want to go.
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katydid

Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| weatherman wrote: |
Being a realist, I would like to move out of teaching in the next few years, yet stay in Korea. Have been teaching in Korea for a long time and I don't think I can do it very much longer. I give myself 3 years maxium as working as a teacher, (but that is what I say..... ). |
Um...then what?  |
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mithridates

Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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I wouldn't mind being an 'imbedded' interpreter in a company somewhere. The worst kind of interpreter to be (in my opinion) is the on-call kind, that has to brush up on whatever subject is going to come up next a few days before the event and doesn't know what to expect. Sometimes they expect you to be a human calculator as well.
So the product in question was valued at 950 baht...
Baht?!?! How many won to a baht?!?!?
Come on, why aren't you interpreting for me?
I might like it but I'd be careful about just accepting anything willy-nilly. |
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katydid

Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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Save money.
Escape with my sanity. |
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Mashimaro

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: location, location
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
I wouldn't mind being an 'imbedded' interpreter in a company somewhere. The worst kind of interpreter to be (in my opinion) is the on-call kind, that has to brush up on whatever subject is going to come up next a few days before the event and doesn't know what to expect. Sometimes they expect you to be a human calculator as well.
So the product in question was valued at 950 baht...
Baht?!?! How many won to a baht?!?!?
Come on, why aren't you interpreting for me?
I might like it but I'd be careful about just accepting anything willy-nilly. |
lol at "willy nilly". that is such a good term to sum up korea. I think any job here by law demands a good portion of willy-nillism
Just an aside on interpretation it was interesting to read an interview with the recently passed guy who did interpretation during the armistace talks during the korean war. Now that must have a been a pressure packed job! say the wrong word here or there and the repercussions could have been huge I'd imagine. The interview was in Richard Hariss' latest book. The interviewee was from the family that founded Yonsei univ. name escapes me.[/b] |
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little mixed girl
Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Location: shin hyesung's bed~
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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i wanna be a celeb!!
aja aja!! fighting!!!  |
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kiwiboy_nz_99

Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Location: ...Enlightenment...
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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I want to make as much money as I possibly can, by whatever means are at my disposal.
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My thoughts exactly ... |
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peppermint

Joined: 13 May 2003 Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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I guess the fact that I read the thread title as
"What do you want to do TO Korea?" is telling.  |
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Ody

Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: over here
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| you should have included a general question like make art/music/babies! |
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Ody

Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: over here
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| seriously though, what i'd like to do in Korea really isn't that different than in the states. yes, it involves further study, not language oriented though and certainly not for (as you put it) a long time. |
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Wisco Kid

Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Location: Changwon
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| "Leave as soon as possible" was not included as an option. |
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