Korean Job Discussion Forums

[whytelight]

So, I teach for 12 months in Korea. Then I go home to no job, no place to live, and no income. What do you people do to deal with that?

Lane

[caniff]

Pimp out a sister.

[SuperFly]

[wings]

crash at a friends place until you get your stuff together.

[bellum99]

Be like most ESL teachers who go home...crash at mom and dads place until you get things going.
--ESL teaching is not a career..it is like a job in fast food, you can't do it when you get older. I pity the old guys out here selling English like street walkers.

[jeffkim1972]

If you bothered to study any Korean, then you can find a job that might require being bilingual.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[itaewonguy]

simple like 90% of the guys who think NA man another year for me here is not happening..
so they go home and then about after 2 weeks start looking for a job here again.. and after being gone 2- 4 weeks, you are back in a hakwon saying just more year!! then one day you wake up and realise you have been here 5 years!!!

[eamo]

[crsandus]

I always planned on leaving my job, teaching english for 2-3 years, apply to grad school around a year before I leave and then go back to the states and get my masters in engineering, settle, get married (if I haven't already), raise a family, grow a garden, and live a simple but happy life.

If I find out that ESL is the thing for me, I'd go back to the states in 2-3 years anyway, get my masters in ESL or teaching, go back to Korea and settle, get married (if I haven't already), raise a family, grow a garden, and live a simple but happy life.

[VanIslander]

One's final paycheque alone, with the year-end bonus, is four million won or more, which is $ 5,000 CDN. So even if you didn't save a penny in your time in Korea - which most people would - you'd still have PLENTY of funds to rent a place for six months while looking for work in whatever city or community one wishes to.

So don't fret if you don't have a relative's couch to crash on.

And worst case scenario, after months and months of applying for work to no avail: there's always a free airline ticket and relocation allowance of a few hundred dollars waiting for you here, in the land of the morning calm before the fruit trucks get going.

[plutodog18]

[indytrucks]

[Demophobe]

The insecurity of youth.

One thing great about being a bit older; you just don't care what people think about you anymore. It's quite liberating to get past that sort of thing...hard to explain clearly, but it really is a turning point in one's life to be free from those feelings.

[eamo]