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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2016 12:20:21 GMT 7
Met this Irish bloke in Korea years ago at Samsung, long haired freaky people. Our agency had me at Samsung and sent him to Hyundai. We were getting about 25usd an hour, the agency was charging 40. This lad is a master of language, has an advanced degree in French. He was fluent in Korean before I met him.
Anyway, his boss' liked him, Ss too. He played them like a fiddle. He told them he wanted to stay on but the money wasn't right. So they offered him that 40 bucks an hour if he'd quit the agency .. quite unethical, even in Korea.
So we've been in touch for 25 years or so. He's coming here to GDL to live soon.
Get this: He has been working 30-40 hrs a week for 25 years, takes regular paid holidays. They pay his rent. They pick him up and drive him home in a large black sedan. He eats breakfast and lunch on campus, free of course. The only expenses he has are supper, ciggies and Jameson.
Lets do the math, as they say: @35 hrs a week as an average is what .. 1400, times 52 is .. 72800 X 25 is .. 1,820,000usd. Not bad!
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Post by pathumseb on Oct 31, 2016 12:40:42 GMT 7
That's some decent saving for sure, but was he happy for those 25 years in Korea? Heard few good things about working for some language mill there to be honest. What's the ideal teaching gig? For me I want a decent curriculum to work with- and not just some tosh cobbled together by some berk who now considers himself and expert after reading a Scrivner book or two- my school uses PYP and it gets results. I want to be sent on quality seminars and other professional development courses rather than being made to come to work on the weekend for some BS show or dance. I'm happy to attend meetings and have been running once since arriving here in Myanmar- just make it in English or provide a translator- I'm not going to sit like a vegetable of over an hour of something I don't understand
For me salary is secondary to arriving at work with a smile everyday- I wasn't just born to save money and pay bills. Life is for living and enjoying.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2016 12:51:34 GMT 7
Did he like it? Fvck no, he's mad from it. That's why I invited him here. He sounds like a broken man on the phone. He has this strong work ethic, something I can't get my head around. His students, as were mine, were engineers and such. In fact some of my Ss were credited for the development of the touch screen. They were good people.
For me salary is secondary to arriving at work with a smile everyday- I wasn't just born to save money and pay bills. Life is for living and enjoying.
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Post by siampolee on Oct 31, 2016 13:23:39 GMT 7
Funnily enough I am back in harness tomorrow.Even we old farts of 71 still have our uses
I am the coordinator for a Thai charity that funds students in a number of schools said students being of a varied range of abilities.
They are in a state schools so at times I have to stress education as opposed to indoctrination and I see some good results coming.
If but one student breaks out of the poverty treadmill via education it's one great step forward. However I want more ''breakouts.''
Having spent the majority of my years here in the International and top end E.P's I have found the last three years possibly the most satisfying years of all in my 25 years here.
As said in two previous posts.
Money is not paramount for me/us, years of pension pot payments and other investments keep us happy.
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Post by me on Oct 31, 2016 13:46:56 GMT 7
Funnily enough I am back in harness tomorrow.Even we old farts of 71 still have our uses I am the coordinator for a Thai charity that funds students in a number of schools said students being of a varied range of abilities. They are in a state schools so at times I have to stress education as opposed to indoctrination and I see some good results coming. If but one student breaks out of the poverty treadmill via education it's one great step forward. However I want more ''breakouts.'' Having spent the majority of my years here in the International and top end E.P's I have found the last three years possibly the most satisfying years of all in my 25 years here. As said in two previous posts. Money is not paramount for me/us, years of pension pot payments and other investments keep us happy. Good thing you are not actually teaching. You mistook f for t in your avatar description.
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Post by siampolee on Oct 31, 2016 13:54:31 GMT 7
'Twas not me that changed my avatar title. I think it was someone associated with banking and we all know what they are like.
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Post by smokie36 on Nov 4, 2016 2:13:46 GMT 7
I have a surprisingly strong work ethic.
I'm working hard at modifying my behaviour however....part of my Thai education I suppose.
Anyway I gave up teaching in 1999...too many backhanders for an upright guy like me back then.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2016 2:25:46 GMT 7
The subject will arrive soon. Given our phone conversations and email exchanges what I'm likely to receive at the airport is a very troubled needy p**shead. No, never will I be anyone's codependent. I keep telling him, "I'll be good for your drinking habit, I don't drink." I doubt he sees that as a positive. We'll see.
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Post by smokie36 on Nov 4, 2016 2:36:18 GMT 7
Keep him busy mate...idle hands and all that.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2016 2:55:37 GMT 7
Good advice. I fear his nightly routine is too ingrained. And then having his daily routine of teaching suddenly nonexistent doubles the problem. What can I do, how can I offer activities to replace all of that? I got it, a good woman could save the day.
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Post by stfranalum on Nov 4, 2016 9:25:40 GMT 7
the OP reads like he wants us to sell powdered shakes or some at-home business.
...you too can earn this while at home, in your underpants!
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Post by Mérovingien on Nov 4, 2016 16:48:39 GMT 7
the OP reads like he wants us to sell powdered shakes or some at-home business. ...you too can earn this while at home, in your underpants! Well that's a step up from earning your money in other people's underpants
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2016 4:23:57 GMT 7
The more I talk to him the more obvious the fact he's a train wreck. I'm stuck with the choice, do I want to be a codependent of a needy alkie who couldn't get to a liquor store on his own, who'd need me to count his change for him, who'd significantly lower my quality of my life?
On his arrival to the USA he'd planed on staying with his sister in San Francisco. She doesn't want him. I can only guess why. He also has a brother there in SF, he can't stay there either. He's hold up in a hotel at the mo, whining of his depression.
So here we have what an "ideal teaching gig" amounts to: More cash than I'll ever see, with a damaged psychic as a result. Can his 25 years of devotion be classified as a strong work ethic? I'll pass.
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Post by curtaintwitcher on Nov 5, 2016 6:00:01 GMT 7
...send your friend to AlAnon and walk away...they're particularly helpful with damaged psychics...
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Post by Soutpeel on Nov 5, 2016 9:36:41 GMT 7
Met this Irish bloke in Korea years ago at Samsung, long haired freaky people. Our agency had me at Samsung and sent him to Hyundai. We were getting about 25usd an hour, the agency was charging 40. This lad is a master of language, has an advanced degree in French. He was fluent in Korean before I met him. Anyway, his boss' liked him, Ss too. He played them like a fiddle. He told them he wanted to stay on but the money wasn't right. So they offered him that 40 bucks an hour if he'd quit the agency .. quite unethical, even in Korea. So we've been in touch for 25 years or so. He's coming here to GDL to live soon. Get this: He has been working 30-40 hrs a week for 25 years, takes regular paid holidays. They pay his rent. They pick him up and drive him home in a large black sedan. He eats breakfast and lunch on campus, free of course. The only expenses he has are supper, ciggies and Jameson. Lets do the math, as they say: @35 hrs a week as an average is what .. 1400, times 52 is .. 72800 X 25 is .. 1,820,000usd. Not bad! Problem with your calculation...you need to take off the circa 21% income tax he would be paying in Korea so that would net him 1.4 over 25 years, ie USD 56k/yr and he hasnt been on USD 40/hr for the last 25 years so annual amount stated would be less Assume you dont teach business or financial accounting anywhere ?
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