Korean Job Discussion Forums

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

I'm thinking I may get out by the end this year. It has been a good few years since I made it all the way back home. But not sure how things will go, job-wise and all. Not a lot of cash in my bank either, so may try to increase that here or elsewhere. Not really enjoying this country though. Thinking elsewhere if not back in Canada. Tried Taiwan. Not sure where else could work? Vietnam? Anyway I'm sort of thinking towards a day when Korea will be just a memory../..

How about you?

Crois · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 1:55 pm Post subject:

Six and a half months of this S H I T. Then i'm gonna try and get a job with less hours, longer holidays and more pay if possible. Am I dreaming?

Gollum · Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Location: Japan

Crois, you ain't dreamin. Many never end up saving what we'd hope making around 1.8 to 2.2 a month. It's the people doing other jobs in addition that make the cash flow to the go. There was chat about this somewhere else on daves. Get a job not working as long hours, then do other partime jobs in the off time. Ya could do privates at others' houses, but thats a lotta runnin' around. Wouldn't do that unless it was for big money per hour, like my female friend. She won't do a private unless it's for at least 50,000 an hour. Otherwise, she works at other schools or companies part time...

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

Yeah, Koreas getting pretty old...barring something outstandingly intereting happening, I reckon I'll try out Japan next time round. The teaching might be similar but the new environment would be quite refreshing I think.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

8 weeks and 2 days left.

Can't wait to go.

Monty_ · Joined: 16 Aug 2003

I leave at the end of April for the backpacker's trail in SE Asia.
Then it's back to blighty (and London town) to try my hand at being the managing director of a small business (a very small business).

kangnamdragon · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

I have no plans to leave.........sorry

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Leave? Are you mad?

Blue Flower · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 12:35 am Post subject:

i have 4 months to go. Then I am gone, and the only way i'm coming back is if I wanna get some cash behind me after I've finished travelling.

Mr. Pink · Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: China

Why the hurry on leaving?

IF your job sucks, find a better one Smile

weatherman · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea

Never leaving. Korea can be a great place if you let it.

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

Leaving end of October... one and done.

Undoubtedly, Korea can be a great place... I have higher aspirations than teaching English to little kids or socialite adults for the rest of my life.

waterbaby · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie

18 days until I finish my contract! Then I'm going back to Melbourne and going back to university. Yay me! Very Happy

kangnamdragon · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

really? That's too bad! good for you , but too bad too

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

Weatherman and other veterans: I occasionally get a glimmer of an idea that korea can indeed be a great place to live. I think this feeling comes after a long time, 3 years maybe, when you actually start to positively enjoy the foibles of Koreans and the environment here.

There's definitely something, a feeling here not found anywhere else- I'm not sure what it is exactly, but I get it occasionally:- staying in a love motel in a new place, drinking with korean girls, or eating in a family restaurant off the beaten track in some rural part of the country.. i think you can feel like you're travelling/on a new adventure here relatively easily.
for example, just taking the ferry to an island 50km offshore, and meeting people that've hardly ever seen a foreigner before, still gives me a kind of buzz...or occasionally finding that warm and attractive person...