Quote Originally Posted by Fatboxingfan View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Dia bando View Post
I don't think anyone in there right mind wants to be stuck in poverty.
Miles your a professional mate so I think you judge people by your standards remember not everyone is academicly smart.
My take on life sometimes you need some luck and good contacts to get on nothing in life is a give me.!
miles is skipping the whole part about how the red carpet has been rolled out for him in South Korea like it is for all white people who work over there in the far East. The red carpet gets rolled out you are a VIP you are somebody special you stick out in the crowd like a sore thumb because the crowd is 99.5% Korean or Japanese if you are in Japan for example. I'm not saying that he is not a professional and I know that he is a good English teacher and works very hard at it but he is judging the poor people in the UK or in the US for example on a standard as if they are VIPs in expats living in a country like South Korea or Japan in which the red carpet is rolled out for these people. You have all heard the old adage all those schools really want over there in South Korea or Japan is a white face a white Western face that they can show the parents of the students. There are tons of white people in Japan and South Korea who cannot teach worth a damn but because they speak native English and they are white they get the red carpet treatment. So Miles has been over there so long he thinks it is so easy as it is for him for everybody in this world. It would not be as easy as he thinks if he was in the United States or the UK because then he will just be a dime a dozen
Those white people are generally in the lowest quality schools and the students get the education they deserve. The teachers last a year or two max, burnout, and go home. Their pension and health likely never paid. They are sometimes not paid on time and sometimes treated like crap and farmed out to earn the school extra coin. That is what changed me in my mid 20's when a school was going wrong. I had chosen my poverty by not saving when I had been paid okay despite my crazy hours, and then had to sue them. From that point on I resolved never to experience poverty again. I had chosen it by my own decisions which were then compounded by bad circumstances.

There was no VIP treatment. For those jobs you are earning less than most Koreans. That is when you upgrade skills, decide to be an expert, and find new revenue sources, and work at it all. You choose your path.

The reality is I was earning above these minimum wage levels as an 18 year old and with a few courses going beyond that. It wasn't incredible money, but the work was there and you were free to spend or save. As a youth I would spend. As an adult I prefer to save. In truth if I had stayed there my income level wouldn't be massively different to now due to promotion. It would just mean more hours.

You choose your path. In terms of Dia's argument, I would say choose a good wife, invest well, insure your health, buy a home upfront, save for the things you want before buying them or just do not have them, put money away for rainy days, etc. Prepare for the worst just in case. Then when things do go wrong, and they will, you are in a position to handle it.