Korean Job Discussion Forums

jodemas2 · Joined: 06 Dec 2006

I have been looking around for awhile now and it seems almost all the teaching gigs are from the afternoon into late evening. I have seen very few early morning jobs except for some split shifts so that one still ends up teaching well into the evening.

I am a morning person and would prefer to start and finish early but that keeps looking more and more like a longshot.

Doesn't anyone study in the morning, or is English not taught in the mornings? What is going on here?

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Do you like kindergarten? There are a lot of morning kindergarten jobs.

excitinghead · Joined: 18 Jul 2005

I can't help you with getting a job just in the mornings sorry, but I'm just suprised that you want that if you are a morning person. I am too, but I don't find teaching very difficult mentally (physically sure, but not mentally), so I prefer to work in the afternoons and evenings, giving me mornings, when I'm bright-eyed and bushy tailed, to do my lesson prep, study Korean, do my onine MA etc. etc. If I only worked mornings I'd never get anything done, as I'm pretty much brain-dead after 2pm.

You know yourself and your body better of course, I'm just suprised that a morning person would want to work in the mornings! If the job was more challenging I'd understand, but I pretty much teach on autopilot myself!

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Seoul Women's University. 7:15 start.

Son Deureo! · Joined: 30 Apr 2003

Hogwons are basically after school programs, so it's only natural that those jobs take place later in the day.

Public school jobs are basically 9 to 5 hours.

yingwenlaoshi · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!

I'm a morning person, too. 12 am to 6 am. Can't get any more morning person than that. Surprised

VanIslander · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:06 am Post subject:

yingwenlaoshi, you're a night person then.

yingwenlaoshi · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!

Hanson · Joined: 20 Oct 2004

You guys are wacky. Working evenings makes me feel like I'm waiting to go to work. Much better to get the workday out of the way to enjoy the afternoon/evening.

Wacky, I tell you.

yingwenlaoshi · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!

It's true, night owl or not, that afternoon and evening starts usually suck the life out of you.

My last job in Canada was a 2-week rotation of 8-4, 4-12, and 12-8 shifts. Couldn't do a damn thing.

hubba bubba · Joined: 24 Oct 2006

Most people work or go to school in the mornings. Try a public school gig.

yingwenlaoshi · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!

Public school:

plokiju · Joined: 15 Mar 2005

You could get a really early start and teach adults at 630 in the morning. I've heard you can get a morning block shift at some adult places but you have to teach on Saturdays also. At least at YBM/ELS, they don't advertise it but you can ask about it.

jaderedux · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Lurking outside Seoul

I am a morning person. I function best when I wake up about 6 in the morning. By 6 p.m. I am winding down and am in bed usually at 10 no later than 11.

I hate staying up late. I was never much of party girl but did now and again but my bio-rhythms are very set so I just live with it. Jet lag would have killed me but I flew at night and was able to keep my schedule. I stayed up a bit and when it started to feel late I popped a melatonin and when I wokeup it was almost time to land. 7 A.M. or so. I have been here so long I flew into Gimpo. Yikes.

When I taught my first job all the guys pissed and moaned about the early classes. Me I loved them. So I took alot of morning classes. I love the kindys and had very few afternoon classes. So 3 days a week my day ended 3:30 and two days a week I was 6. I liked it. They guys were ususally there till 8:30 or 9 till the last class. (first class wasn't till 10 a.m. so it wasn't breaking rocks.) Personally I thought they were pussies cuz they moaned so much about having early classes but I guess I would have been dead if I had to stay till 9.

When I wake up I am up. One cup of coffee brekkie and I am raring to go. By 10 I just want to go to bed.

Jade

yingwenlaoshi · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!

Pretty soon, I'll be teaching Mon to Fri, 6:30 - 8 am. I hate it, but the money is too good to pass up (75,000/day). I can hardly get to sleep after my 9:30 pm finish time at the hagwon. Forgot about that. Saturday is sleep day. Geez, Sunday, too.

I do two-month stints of these. 4 times a year. Can't decide whether I'm happy or not about this.