World Citizen

I had a phone interview with a recruiter about going for gepik in Bundang. Which may not work, but I am thinking this is my best bet so far. He says I need to apply for transcripts (transcripts! I haven’t gotten those in years!) and wait until positions start opening up in July.

So yeah. Even if I don’t get a gepik job the more I look in Bundang the more I want to move there! haha. The other “perfect public school in Bundang” job which I spent an age preparing that freaking video for, wasn’t perfect, wasn’t a public a school and wasn’t even in Bundang. Ugh. Recruiter’s suck sometimes.

So yeah. That’s the job status right now. Although am currently being bullied into rushing to Bundang after work to get to Jukjeon by 6pm for an interview I am pretty meh about. Need to think of a tactful way to say fuck off basically.

Oh well, at least I have options! haha.

On top of the (admittedly crappy) video I sent them.

Guess now is the time I should actually ask whereabouts in Seongnam this school is. Oops. Who’s betting its out in the boonies and a million miles from civilization? haha. That’d be just my luck.

cantstoptraveling said: Why don’t you tell your current school you have a doctor appointment one day when your classes finish early then organize an interview?

Yeah, I was kind of hoping for that too. But Bundang is just so so far from me, (I work in Gangseo-gu, so its at least an hour and a half’s journey there). But I also checked back on the website where the advert was, and they mentioned the video there too. So I think this is just what they prefer.

But I think I figured out an alternative for the bad sound quality, and after a break from it I am way less stressed out! haha. And I have kind of figured out iMovie from this all too, so I guess it wasn’t totally wasted time! ^^

This fucking video for the fucking job in Bundang is doing my fucking head in. I swear.

The fan for my macbook is the loudest it has ever been. Ever. I think they are going to hear that fucking fan more than me. Which is probably for the best. But still.

I’ve tried turning down the ambient sound on the sound monitor in the system preferences. I’ve tried googling all sorts of shit to make the fan stop for at least five minutes. But it conveniently turns back on again just as I hit record.

Now? Now I don’t give a fuck. Hopefully the people at the school wont care about it either. I’ll just send it to the recruiter with a disclaimer saying sorry my laptop is a piece of fucking crap but I don’t understand how to fucking use iMovie and its been two hours already.

Or something along those lines.

Argh. Why can’t I just have a phone interview? :-(

nateonseoul said: this is tedious, but after you record go through and edit out all the “uhhs” and “umms” and general dead sound. your video will be less jumpy than you think, and you’ll sound much smarter. i’d make an outline at least, and hang it behind the camera

Thanks! I’ll definitely give that a go. My video editing skills are minimal, but I want to make it as best as I can. My plan was to make bullet points of all the things I wanted to get across and then go from there. I think I will be spending my weekend trying to figure out iMovie. It will be my first time putting something like this together~

A perfect public school in Bundang has said that they are interested in me. Which is freaking awesome as its just completely perfect.

But because I live so far from there, and because they don’t want to interview outside of school hours, I have to make a YouTube introduction video of myself.

Which is not so yay. I mean I get it, I do. But a self introduction of myself with a pre planned script is just going to come off awkward and crap. I just know it.

So yeah. Yay for having a cool place interested in me. But not so yay for the video part. Guess I’ll have to do it this weekend. I don’t think I’m going to script it though because that will just be weird.

spicyenoughforyou said: What part of Yongin? I’m just outside Bundang in Jukjeon and I’ve got to say, it’s not bad at all :)

I’m not too sure where yet. I emailed the recruiter back asking, so I’ll have to wait and see. But I have been to Jukjeon and loved it there! Its actually one of the reasons why I thought that Bundang would be a good place to go for me. So yeah. If its anywhere around that area then I would definitely consider it. :)

Today I was sent a pretty damn good job which fills all my requirements … except its in Yongin City. Which isn’t too far from where I want to be, but it is a little further out. I could see myself living there, and the job is appealing and pretty great, and I am erring towards at least pursuing it further.

Idk. I really want to find a great job this year. All my other times I couldn’t give a shit and took whatever. But now? Now I want to feel things out a bit more. Wait a little to find something great.  I also have a couple of other jobs in the pipeline for Bundang, which I would much prefer. But Yongin is also an option too.

But whatever I choose. Its official: I am going to leave the greater Seoul area. I need a bit of peace and countryside in my life. Yongin or Bundang or somewhere else. It just feels right.