soundproject
Joined: 01 Jun 2011
Location: taking the scenic route to Bucaramanga...
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 Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Swampfox10mm wrote: |
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Happened to me with my 2nd job. I even trained a week for free (will never do that again). Finished the training, went on vacation, heard nothing. That was back in the day when you'd get your visa in a different way. Turns out, they were going under (never got enough students). I didn't hear a thing about what was going on until I got ahold of a Canadian teacher there who told me, "We're a sinking ship... the boss is hoping you won't return to Korea."
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With your second job then! I bet you learnt a lesson there..training for free!? The "lovely" YBM and similar companies have free training uh?  Hmmm..it seems visa rules have changed considerably over the past 2 or 3 years? More red tape apparently? If that was a while back, well with times getting hard all over the planet..there might just be an increase in the number of hagwons taking the same direction..rather than an increase in the numbers setting up shop. Did you manage to ride the wave and get another job straight after? |
Could write a book about what happened after that (and probably should). In the end, a recruiter lined me up with a Kindy gig quickly. |
Why not! Others might start following suit Good though you managed to sort something soon after. I guess you've moved on from Kindy by now? |
Yup. I teach university students now. Not a lot different, but I don't get to sing and dance. Also, there aren't any cute and desperate mid/late 20's kindergarten teachers to flirt with. Just 40-something ajumma with Ph.D's who complain about our books. They're very kind, anyway. |
Oh, I see. Lol! Shame about not getting to sing and dance, though it might just be the necessary tonic needed to be brighten the days of the 40 plus Ph.D students. They're books probably take a big chunk of their time! No cute and desperate mid/late 20's kindy teachers to flirt with..lol! Hmm..I'm sure you could attach a similar tag to kindy teachers of both sexes..no!? Although I suspect most of the male teachers in that age bracket are desperately set on acheiving quantity over quality in terms of flirting 
Aside, I'm sure it is all very insightful and hopefully there's some funny moments thrown in for good measure! |
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