Mental Starvation... Tuesday, February 1

Headed off to Seoul in anticipation of persuing a new job. I won't go into the specific job description just yet but will note that in addition to being asked my body measurements on the phone and being told to send a couple of pictures of myself prior to the interview, I was then bombarded with numerous personal questions at the actual interview. Questions ranged from the obvious, like prior experience and school questions, to the more personal and detailed, like whether or not I had a "baby plan" and what I did on dates when I first met my husband. It felt like a mix between playing 20 questions and being interrogated by the police. Questions centered around me but continuously side tracked and involved other people in my life, like my parents and my in-laws but specifically my husband.

I was told prior to the interview (by the recruiter) to not mention that I speak Korean. I thought it'd be easy enough to go along with until the questions about my husband started building up. I had no other way to explain how Snickers and I as a couple was even a possibility without explaining to them that I was being tutored in Korean when I first met Snickers.

The hours of the job are quite long to what I am use to but who are we kidding?! Any job beyond a couple of hours each day is a longer work day than I am use to... hahaha. So it's long hours and it's somewhat demanding. They want me to quit any side jobs I've got going on during the week but if they offer me a pay that is comparative to the amount I'm expecting than I'm more than willing to step away from my morning tutoring. I'm at the point where I really not looking to step back into a full classroom just yet. I've had a taste of private tutoring at the corporate level and it tastes good. This job involves a bit of this but it is also total spin off of it so that's where the lure is. I want something different to keep me from mental boredom that I feel classroom teaching will throw me back into. I'm hoping this is the different that I am looking for, the different that I need.

The interview was interesting, it had last just a little over an hour and my interviewer had scribbled a full page of notes about me. He told me that I'd have another interview for the job in a week and a half but it'd be hosted by another person.

Snickers had driven me to my interview in Seoul. It took us exactly an hour and four minutes to drive there. It then took us FIVE HOURS AND FIFTEEN MINUTES to drive home (that's not including our dinner pitstop). Tomorrow marks the New Year here in Korea so Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are red days (holidays). Consequently, all of Korea will be on the move either today or tomorrow. Tonight we had the "joy" of running into what felt like all of Korea on the move. There's no one I rather be stuck in traffic with than Snickers but even with him the time spent on the road was brutal. The only kind of ediables we had in the car was rich chocolate, garlic bread, and a pack of gum. Well, we could only stomach a few pieces of chocolate, we finished off what was left of the garlic bread and we ate the whole pack of gum as a result of trying to hold a bubble-blowing contest to kill our boredom on the road.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Does your job push or pull you?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle