"When are you going back to Korea?"

That is the question people have been asking me for the past 3 1/2 months. And for the past 3 1/2 months my answer has usually been, "soon."

Most people who I talk to on a regular basis and know nothing about teaching English there probably now think getting a job in Korea is really difficult. Finding just any job is easy. Finding a good job can be difficult. Or if you are like me it can be really difficult if you are both very picky about the job and don't put much effort into finding one.

So the reason I am still here is I just haven't tried very hard to find a job. I'm trying, but what I mean is, I think for as picky about jobs as I have been I have not been trying hard enough. If I had lower standards, I could have had a job by now, I have turned down several job offers for various reasons. I don't mean low standards, just lower.

Some people may be interested to know salary was not one of the things I was being so picky about. Most schools have offered about the same pay. The biggest things I was looking at were location, location, location, working hours, and the age group I would teach.

But now it's August and I am really starting to feel restless about getting back. So I have to relax my standards a little and start putting more effort in to the job hunt.

no new job

Last week I got the document I had been waiting for, and sent everything to Korea. The documents would be arriving yesterday, so I was expecting an email telling me the next step. Instead I got an email telling me that the school couldn't wait for me and they hired some one else. So now I am back to fucking square one, looking for a job.

new job?

I've been in the US since April 23, but I really haven't done anything constructive so far. I have been exercising, I have done some metal work, but I haven't finished anything, and I just got back from a one week trip to San Diego. I really don't know what I have been doing the rest of the time I've been here.

I guess I have found a new job in Korea, but I am a little worried about it working out. I was hired, and I emailed them the signed contract and a copy of my passport info page, now I am supposed to send the rest of the documents by Fed Ex to Korea, but I am still waiting to receive one of the things I need from the US government. I told my recruiter from the start that I was still waiting on one document, now the school keeps asking him when I will get it. The document should be here any day now but I'm not sure how long the school will wait for me.