So I'm thinking a lot about quitting my job despite being paid relatively well for my age/education and despite the lolrecession because, y'know, it sucks.
I'll be out of the apartment I'm living in right now in a month or two, and I don't have significant other/significant local social network/furniture etc. to keep me around, so if I were to quit, where/what are some 'adventure' jobs I could do?
I looked at teaching English abroad, but that seems terribly fraught, and I'm not the most assertive dude, so I'd probably end up teaching 60 hours a week and living in a laundry room in Shanghai. But y'know, that sort of thing.
I've got an almost-BA in Film and a couple years' worth of hospital work under my belt. Any ideas?
Also completely reasonable to use this thread purely to mock/deride me for being a restless idiot youth.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:53 (sixteen years ago)
Good friend of mine's doing the teaching-English-abroad thing in Korea and is really liking it, but she's got a sig-other so you may be right about getting holed up and lonesome in a non-English speaking country. But it's good to spend your restless idiot youth seeing the world and stuff. Lots of people do worse things with theirs. In fact that's probably one of the better ways to spend a restless idiot youth. Better than your local dive. Go for it.
― i ? sauces (╓abies), Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:00 (sixteen years ago)
i have lots of friends who have done the teaching english abroad (in china, japan, korea) and all of them have enjoyed it.
― just sayin, Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:05 (sixteen years ago)
The one thing that scares me about that is how the hell do I teach English if that is the solitary language I speak. It's apparently not difficult because so many people do it but like, how. I imagine it's like Pictionary + over-enunciation.
― i ? sauces (╓abies), Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:08 (sixteen years ago)
yah i think there's a lot of teaching them how to pronounce things? but i'm not sure either
― just sayin, Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:09 (sixteen years ago)
I looked a lot into teaching in China, but after spending a couple days (at work) reading through pretty much this entire website, it seemed like a bad idea since I wouldn't have anyone with me, and am utterly horrible at any type of haggling (and worse with the Chinese-style 'coy' haggling).
More of a thing I would do with an s.o.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:12 (sixteen years ago)
Good friend of mine's doing the teaching-English-abroad thing in Korea and is really liking it
this. another good friend just up and left for canada to be a journalist.
― you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:13 (sixteen years ago)
This has lots of ideas: http://www.amazon.com/Work-Your-Around-World-11th/dp/1854582747
― RR, Thursday, 29 October 2009 16:23 (sixteen years ago)