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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse
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Lemme put it this way....
I'm oooooold! And I'm not happy! And I don't like things now compared to the way they used to be. All this progress -- phooey! In my day, we didn't have these fancy computers and high speed internet There was only one internet cafe in all of Korea -- it was open only one hour a year. And you'd get in line, seventeen miles long, and the line became an angry mob of people -- fornicators and thieves, mutant children and circus freaks -- and you waited for years and by the time you got to the computer, you were senile and arthritic and you couldn't remember your own user id and password. You were born, got in line, and ya died! And that's the way it was and we liked it!
*sung to the tune of Dana Carvey grumpy old man
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vox
Joined: 13 Feb 2005
Location: Jeollabukdo
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
| Green Tea wrote: |
| SuperHero wrote: |
| you really must be FOB. |
FOB ? |
Fresh off the boat. But you haven't even gotten on the boat yet, have you?
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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. |
It seems that you're still working up to being a failure and working at a crap job in a foreign country... |
LOL! Yeah I think I smell a troll too. And from right outta the gate! Not even time for a smokescreen pretense or anything.
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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.  |
This sentiment has been expressed many times in different ways, but this was particularly elegant. Well done. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:39 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. |
Since when is teaching a "young" type of job? |
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vox
Joined: 13 Feb 2005
Location: Jeollabukdo
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| Green Tea wrote: |
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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. |
Since when is teaching a "young" type of job? |
When the speaker is too young himself to have outgrown that insecurity phase where everything is stoopid and nothing is cool.
I think Green Tea is actually an ESL teacher's angry teen kid who logged on his dad's account. |
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Sod_em_and_begorrah
Joined: 20 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Green Tea wrote: |
| 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. |
27? Older? Speak for yourself pal.
I'm 27 as well. 28 next month. I know people here in their 40s teaching. |
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munji
Joined: 08 Sep 2006
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:17 pm Post subject: Re: How old are you? |
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| Just curious about the age of people who teach in K-Land. |
Sorry, aint no teach myself. |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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Green Tea's logic:
Green Tea is an English teacher in Korea
Green Tea has a crap job
Therefore, all English teachers in Korea have crap jobs.
Way to go, Aristotle. |
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mnhnhyouh
Joined: 21 Nov 2006
Location: The Middle Kingdom
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:15 am Post subject: |
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rockstarsmooth
Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Location: anyang, baybee!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:03 am Post subject: |
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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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Hey boss! Can you fire Green Tea? Can you slap him around before you let him go?  |
if he was working for me he wouldn't be ******** about having a crap job!
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 right now i'm listening to: editors - dust in the sunlight
Mod Edit: Edited for language. |
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rockstarsmooth
Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Location: anyang, baybee!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:08 am 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. |
dude, i hope you read my next post in which i demonstrated that i was being totally sarcastic.
please don't be too earnest in trying to lift my spirits, they really don't need lifting...
i've never seen mtv cribs. i don't know what that is...
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right now i'm listening to: kinnie starr - alright |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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What's with the new trend of moving crap threads into the Off-Topic?
I mean you guys, I'm seriously. |
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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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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Better yet, shoot Green Tea! |
Good call. |
Tahks, but I was bit off
Green Tea, look inside yourself, consider your lot in life outside of your bitterness in this thread, you know what to do... |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Other than the grumpy old man bit, a pretty dismal thread. |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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The OP has to be Korean who would ask such an ageist question.
Yes, I am over qualified.
cbc |
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