Korean Job Discussion Forums

michi gnome · Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Location: Dokdo

How many plan to continue teaching ESL in public schools or community colleges in their home countries (or other countries) in the future?

Or after 1 or 2 years, or you planning to call it quits, hang up your chalk & eraser for good, and start selling insurance somewhere?

PimpofKorea · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:58 am Post subject:

After a few more years of the won extraction business. I will retire my handy Let's go series books and trademark waygook teacher hippie sandals.

The Bobster · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

I'm here. This is where I live now.

Cerebroden · Joined: 27 Dec 2006

11 months from yesterday and I'm out.

bellum99 · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: don't need to know

There is no long term future without going insane. I am counting the days until I am finished teaching. I never want to fake nice to Korean mothers again.

jaganath69 · Joined: 17 Jul 2003

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

I've been here for three years and have less then three months on my current contract. Only counting down the days until I leave.

I have applied for ESL jobs in the states though. If you check out the colleges and universities, quite a few of them have ESL staff.

Alyallen · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:42 pm Post subject:

My plan is to finish out this year and then go home to study either TESOL or Special Education or both.

Maybe I'll come back...Maybe I won't.

hubba bubba · Joined: 24 Oct 2006

As a teacher, no. Maybe evil hagwon director. Twisted Evil

Although selling insurance sounds nice somedays.

xingyiman · Joined: 12 Jan 2006

I'll be in Asia probably for the remainder of my life. I just can't justify going back to the States and spending 9/10 of my income on a crappy place to live and a car that doesn't run half the time. In a few years I will head to Thailand and open a restaurant hopefully. Nothing waiting for me back home other than a family that could care less whether I am there or not.

Zoidberg · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:54 pm Post subject:

michi gnome · Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Location: Dokdo

i hear ya--i don't want any of that crap either...a car note, paying most of yr income for an apt. in some crappy neighborhood (Chicago), not much fun

& i could go off on a long tangent on the things that piss me off about the States: the endless urging to be a good consumer, the non-stop militarism, 24 hr in your face celebrity worship, the religious freaks...but there are probably a lot of threads already on that topic, so I'll shut up here.

done a lot of crap jobs in my day, and I have to say--teaching ESL takes a lot of energy, & there are tough days as in any job, but it has its rewards...

corroonb · Joined: 04 Aug 2006

I have a five year plan, then I'm off to France. I'm never going back to Ireland to work, its such a miserable, dank hole. I'm only 22 so lots of time to get some qualifications and cash so I can afford a European lifestyle.

oneofthesarahs · Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Location: Sacheon City

Maybe. I've found that I enjoy teaching, and there's something really tangible about the results of teaching a second language. I think it's a pretty exhausting yet rewarding job. I could see myself falling into this for the long haul, but I would definitely go back to the States for a few years to go to grad school (financed by sweet, sweet hagwon funds).

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun