Got the go-ahead from Junior Mint to start advertising my private boxercise class – very cool!
Arranged private cooking lessons for Snickers and they start tomorrow – yup, that’s how we roll as a fusion couple… hahaha.
Overheard a conversation I wasn’t intended to hear and after piecing together the few words I did hear I figured it all out – Snickers got into YET ANOTHER car crash. Some lady doing an illegal U-turn YESTERDAY hit him and our car, being the beast of a tank it’s proving to be, sent her car spinning and came out with only scratches to the front bumper’s paint. He tried to calm my frustrations with the discovery by telling me how much money the lady’s insurance company is throwing us.
Am almost 100% convinced that acquiring a job in Korea that will satisfy me, put my skills to work and give me the sense of challenge I’m very much craving means creating my own job.
I thought that having a F2 visa would advantage me because it dismisses the legal hassles employers go through with visa sponsoring – wrong. Employers know it means I can simply step down from a job if I’m unhappy.Having said all this, I’m looking into other options and means of making work for myself. I don’t want a job I can just clock in, put my hours in and then go home after what feels like another no-brainer day. I want to put my passions to work, test and challenge myself, and feed off the energy and enthusiasm of what doing something I love brings to my life. I think we all want this but too often I feel like we as foreigners really have no choice but to settle. Korea is English-crazy and let’s face it, we have something they want – English, obviously. I like teaching English but admit that I’d love it if I didn’t feel it was my only option here.
I thought being somewhat bilingual (English and Korean) would advantaged me but I was wrong about that too. Employers seem to want their foreign workers to be very foreign and English-only.
I thought for sure that my 7 years of work experience in Korea would definitely advantage me but, yup you guessed it, I seem to be wrong on that too. It’s cheaper for employers to hire fresh-off-the-plane workers than have to offer me a salary that credits my experience. Moreover, the typical jobs designated for foreign workers offer very little room for advancement and I’m not particularly interested in working the same job and getting paid the same amount as a newcomer.
Found out why the small group of East Asians girls who work at the nursery school run by nuns next door are always watching Snickers and I and stay somewhat secluded in the school; they're run aways. They came to Korea to marry Korean men then for whatever reason they ran away and found their way to this one particular organization that houses them and gives them work. I felt terrible when I heard this because all the girls are very young and I think it's so sad to hear of such unhappy mariages. I for one love, love, LOVE being married. Anyways, they’re not a particularly friendly group of girls but I guess it's understandable. I wave to them a lot but they never wave back. They just watch. Come to think of it, I've never seen them really venture outside beyond the opening day ceremony they had.
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