Sunday, August 10, 2008

Finally, I have a job.



Well folks, after what seems like so much hubbub and little to no results, I finally have a job. Yes that's right, I finally have a job. What I find to be the most unique part of this is that no matter how well you plan things, you never truly know where you are going to end up. As it turns out I took a job in a different region of Korea. In fact I'm about as far away from the Busan area as I could possibly imagine myself going. I have decided to accept a public school position in the city of Seosan. Seosan, for those of who who are wondering is about two hours southwest of Seoul. It is a decent sized city situated on the West coast of Korea. The city itself has about 200,000 people living in it, and from what I've been told is actually very nice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seosan,_Chungnam

http://eng.seosantour.net/

Those are two websites where you can go to get more information about the city and surrounding areas. I'm sorry there isn't more info available, but that is the best info that can be found online that pertains to my soon to be home. Many of you who read this may be asking yourselves, why would I decide to go here? Well to be brutally honest with you, the money just was too good here. By taking a job in this city I will make an average of 700 dollars more a month, without doing any overtime. If I add in overtime I'm looking at making close to 1,000-1,500 dollars more a month. When you run that out to over one full year, it comes out to roughly an extra 10,000 dollars. Like I said, the money just ended up being too good.

So this post was basically just to let you all know that I have finally, after all these damned months, found and accepted a job. I hope to be gone in the next three to four weeks depending on the amount of time it takes to process my Visa. I will keep you all updated as I know more. Until then