My Life Has Changed In 3 Weeks.

OvertoneBliss said:
3 weeks ago, I was 21 years old, jobless, stuck in a rut, pretty miserable with how 'life' had turned out, and I hated it. Staying awake 'til silly hours in the morning, waking up, eating and wasting my time watching movies or surfing the internet.
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how you know so much about me!?!?

you got everything but the age right! :O
 
Apologies if I missed this somewhere in the thread, but I'm still interested to know how it was possible.

I mean if you were unemployed before all this and presumably therefore broke, how did you manage to afford a flight to China and to survive there until you got paid?
 
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seek said:
Apologies if I missed this somewhere in the thread, but I'm still interested to know how it was possible.

I mean if you were unemployed before all this and presumably therefore broke, how did you manage to afford a flight to China and to survive there until you got paid?
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English teachers are in such demand in Asia that most schools pay for a plane ticket there, give you a flat for a year, and pay for your plane ticket back.

I'm currently living in Korea teaching English and life is easy. I get paid enough to send home £600- 700 a month, eat at restaurants for breakfast and dinner every single day, and can go out on the lash everyday should I choose to.

Making the jump over here is not the big life changing step most people seem to see it as. Getting a job is so ridiculously easy and working in a foreign environment isn't hard to adapt to (though culture shock can make some times a little miserable!).

I'd recommend it to anyone who is thinking about doing it. You can have a job sorted within a week very easily. Just don't think of it as such a big thing - it's a job like any other that just happens to be on the other side of the world.
 
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seek said:
Apologies if I missed this somewhere in the thread, but I'm still interested to know how it was possible.

I mean if you were unemployed before all this and presumably therefore broke, how did you manage to afford a flight to China and to survive there until you got paid?
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Easy peasy, I sold everything I owned. :p

As Hellsmk2 has pointed out - if you want to do it, then don't think of it as such a massive thing. By the sounds of it though, he earns one of the higher wages available, and in Korea. This is somewhat different to earning £400 a month in Mainland China.

S.Korea is on my little list, though. I can't wait to visit that place; I think I'm gonna love it. :)

Just to clarify though, I never got anything paid for on the way there (quite common) and, 'cause my contract ended early, I had no leg to stand on for return money. Getting fired in China really isn't a nice thing. :o
 
What was it like surfing the Interweb from China? Is it as bad as everyone says?

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Evangelion said:
What was it like surfing the Interweb from China? Is it as bad as everyone says?

:eek:
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No, not 'bad' in the slightest. People exagerrate a hell of a lot. Never believe anything you don't see with your own eyes. :p

The BBC was blocked, though, and some other sites. Nothing a proxy couldn't fix. :)
 
Yeah, without meaning to pry, how did you lose your job? It all seemed to go downhill very quickly from what you've said. I take my hat off to you for learning Chinese. I started but didn't have the patience to get very far.
 
Hellsmk2 said:
English teachers are in such demand in Asia that most schools pay for a plane ticket there, give you a flat for a year, and pay for your plane ticket back.

I'm currently living in Korea teaching English and life is easy. I get paid enough to send home £600- 700 a month, eat at restaurants for breakfast and dinner every single day, and can go out on the lash everyday should I choose to.

Making the jump over here is not the big life changing step most people seem to see it as. Getting a job is so ridiculously easy and working in a foreign environment isn't hard to adapt to (though culture shock can make some times a little miserable!).

I'd recommend it to anyone who is thinking about doing it. You can have a job sorted within a week very easily. Just don't think of it as such a big thing - it's a job like any other that just happens to be on the other side of the world.
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where are you located matey?
 
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