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[brandonviera]

Being in Korea is the sum of bad choices for me. It's where I've ended up out of failure...pure and simple. I never finished my Masters degree. I never got married. I never quite believed in the cult of making money. I never finished the novel. I never asserted myself and single-mindedly achieved the life I wanted. I've been weak, indulgent and lazy. Korea is what I deserve....

How about you? What brings you here? Seriously...

[nicholas_chiasson]

are you jewish? cause this thread has a lot of self-loathing!

[brandonviera]

Are you Aryan because that's a demeaning generalization...

[bogey666]

[IncognitoHFX]

This thread is an equation with both the question and the answer written in. Korea is the Sum of Good Choices for some.

[thatwhitegirl]

None of the above...
Here cause I'm married to a Brit (I'm a Yank), and it is far easier for us to work overseas then try to sort out the green-card bull in either of our respective countries. I grew up overseas, and my parents are still in Asia... so no home-town to go to.
England is too expensive, and we don't want to get saddled with mortgages and what not...yet.

So we're here cause it's convenient and easy. E-2 visas were easier to get than green-cards. We get to work together, live in a rent-free place, and save lots for when we do decide on a place/country to settle down.

[No_hite_pls]

[captain kirk]

[numazawa]

[OnTheOtherSide]

Sitting around and regretting past mistakes is something that only total losers do.

We've all made mistakes. Every single one if us. Why dwell?

Compared to a high school drop out who is working at McDonalds or KFC, we're all doing pretty good. It's all relative. Personally, I wouldn't consider this gig a failure in any way. A lot of my friends back home are looking at me like i'm doing something completely amazing and awesome. To a lot of people, even getting a bachelor degree is pretty good.

The OP was probably raised with a silver spoon in his mouth by perfectionist parents who pressured him to be a millionare lawyer all the way. So to him this is failure maybe? This dude needs to chill out, or better yet, kill himself. haha

I hate people who think like that......

[ryouga013]

I came here for cash so that I could go back and get some more education and teach somewhere else for less money but enjoy myself more. I took the job here because I couldn't find a job in Japan with the various visa crap they had and problems with my school crushing the few chances I had to get a job there.

I am here. Are there regrets? why not. Do I want to say "stupid me" more than I have to? nope, not really. I will make it through, even if it comes tooth and nail.

[nolegirl]

I would think most people are running away from something.

Personally, I am running away. The one thing that scares me more than anything is to be barefoot and pregnant on a front lawn in suburban America in a cement house that looks exactly the same as every other house within a 5 mile radius with 2 kids, 2 bedrooms, 2 � bath with a Subaru minivan wearing mom jeans. This scares the shit out of me and as god as my witness that will never happen to me. I will never get to that low point.

At least in Korea you are walking out of your apt not knowing what will happen, its like an adventure everyday on some crazy reality show or so I heard

I had an interview with proctor and gamble about 6 months ago where I would be asst brand manger, of you guessed it, tampons! I am sure the job pays out of this world but do I really want to say my life's accomplishments were marketing tampons to females ages 13-50. Wow, what a sad, sad life that would have been. Wow, I would get one nice vacation a year where I go to Sandals resort and drink Pina Colodas with little umbrellas like all the other tourists and go to an exotic waterfall where there are 10 other bus loads of people. I would make good money but nothing really to show for it except a useless existence.

OP, If your sick of Korea go somewhere else.
Maybe you need to re-evaluate what you really want out of life. If you want to get your masters, do it, if you want to finish your novel, do it� what is stopping you. You should consider yourself lucky that you don�t have mortgages, car payments, health, home and car insurance, kids, wife/husband weighing you down. You will get married one day but don�t make it the basis of your existence. If that doesn�t work try Zoloft! Self-pity gets you nowhere, snap out of it. Lifes a bitch filled with ups and downs, how you handle these bumps in the road is going to determine how happy you are in life. As my mom likes to say when a door shuts a window opens. Start looking fo rthat window quickly as you sound very depressed.

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[numazawa]

[Ya-ta Boy]

I think the OP can add starting this thread to his list of bad choices.