Korean Job Discussion Forums

shawner88 · Joined: 01 Feb 2003

Is Korea making you l...

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

Yes, but I can't be bothered to tell you why.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

yes...........

*sob* I'm lucky if I can accomplish one personal goal a week.. *sob*

*sob*sob*

*sniff*

shawner88 · Joined: 01 Feb 2003

Hehe. I was just trying to be funny with the original post by not finishing the sentence, yeah I know so clever...

Really though it worries me. I work 4-5 hours a day and I find myself sometimes thinking even that's too much. Then again, it may be because that 4-5 hours if stressful, whereas if I had my own office and a desk somewhere else and no kids around me I'd be able to handle much more.

Still I find myself wondering how did I ever work 40 hours/week back in the states and can I do it again?

Howard Roark · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Location: Canada

Korea itself definitely has made me more active. At home I always had a car, here I have to walk everywhere.
It's made me more self-reliant as well. At home dear old Mom did everything for me. Here I've had to become more responsible. If I don't pay the bills, buy the groceries, and clean the house, who will?
The only aspect in which I have become "spoiled" is my job this year. Last year I taught seven 40-minute classes in a row, every day, for 1.8, at a kid's hagwan. I didn't think it was so bad at the time. But now I have the easiest job in the world! Which is good, if I plan to stay, but bad when I have to find a new job. Could I get this lucky twice? I wonder.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I don't think Korea is to blame. I think I was already lazy, and Korea (like any good drug) brings that part of my personality out so I can fine-tune it.

Plastic B · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Daejeon no more

Oh yeah! I put on fourteen kilos in seven months while here. That's five pounds a month for those who haven't switched to metric. Mind you, the lack of amphetamines may well have had something to do with that...

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

The more free time, the lazier you are....

justagirl · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Cheonan/Portland

Rapier, you are right on! The more free time, the less I actually get done. If I have expectations and requirement put upon me, I can meet and rise above. If I'm working 5 hours a day, 4 days a week (like I do at my hakwon now) it's really hard for me to do anything constructive.

Just this month I decided to get off my duff and get something going. Now I'm up by 9 am (before it was 11 or 12), I do stuff in the morning, and after work I go to the gym for 40-60 minutes.

I really feel proud of myself (patting self on the back), cause it was difficult to break the laziness habits. Wish me luck--I have 20 more days to make it a habit.

justagirl

wylde · Joined: 14 Apr 2003

judging by my man boobs and my massive beer gut... yes

the more free time i get, the less i do..

hence my membership to the health club starting in april

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

When I did my CELTA I was limited to 6 hours sleep a night..super busy... yet I had more energy, felt better, and accomplished more than ever.

First job here I only taught 4 hours a day, but spent the rest of my time sleeping or drinking. Really lazy.

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

I feel a lot more productive here then I did back home. I up and moving rather than sitting around at the bar and cramming. Also the lack of car has made me far more active.

Crois · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 5:49 am Post subject:

Sneh...,,,,!!!!

VanIslander · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 5:57 am Post subject:

I have busy weeks and lazy weeks.

After working 70-hour weeks in Canada (yes, that much - the life of a small-town newspaper editor), I find the 25-30 hour weeks now excruciatingly slow.

I chose this lifestyle to give me time to do the sort of writing I want to do, and am now in a 15-20 hours-a-week groove; but for my first six months I did nothing much in the mornings but recover from the previous day's exhausting session with all those young pinballs some called "students".

I felt really lazy but I didn't put much expectations on myself at the time, other to adjust, adapt to the culture, go out whenever asked to (almost nightly), prepare for classes an hour earlier than expected.

Now that I'm busier I feel lazier, oddly enough, because I'm posting on Dave's when there is so much I'm trying to do these days.

Like right this moment, I should be going for my evening jog, finishing reading "Tale of Two Cities" or writing a friend in Germany.

But nooo, lazybone me is here, with you anonymous guys.

Don't you feel you're being lazy posting at Dave's? (especially the off-topic forum)

wylde · Joined: 14 Apr 2003