We are living our dream

I have been an American high school chemistry teacher for fifteen years and I was starting to feel some burn out in my personal and professional life. I was living at work, and then tired when I came home at night. I loved my students but often their disaffected nature and the vast bureaucracy of academic in the US was wearing me down to the point where I dreaded getting up in the morning. I started searching for some viable options for me to make a change. I looked in to Japan, China, Kuwait, Russia, Luxembourg, and a host of other countries to teach in, and decided that the culture, food, and way of life in Korea most suited my mentality.

After making the choice it was so overwhelming to know how to go about figuring out the process of immigrating to a foreign country, especially one with stringent visa laws like Korea has. Thank goodness I found Michael and EnglishWork. I did not want to be a part of a vast mill of recruiters. I wanted a personal hand and someone to make sure to prioritize what I needed. Michael is absolutely amazing. I needed a couple position, I needed to work in the country. I am 38 so I do not want to work 60 hours a week, but I need to make an actual living. Michael found all of this and more for my girlfriend and I. It has been an absolute dream come true.

I work in Changnyeong province in a tiny town called Gyeseong. I work competitive hours, have excellent pay and health care, bosses that I love to work for, a clean and well kept apartment, easy public transit access, and a free ticket home and back every year. I never wanted to work in an environment again where my boss did not put students first and the well being of their teachers had to matter. Richard and Suzi, my bosses, are the best bosses one could ever hope for and I hope to work her as many years as they will let me stay.

None of this would have been possible without Michael, his attention to detail, and his constant hard work. He is a consummate professional, communicates quickly and efficiently, and made the process so easy and painless that I almost thought we did something wrong because of how smoothly it went. I cannot recommend EnglishWork enough if you plan on moving to Korea. There is nothing like the personal touch that Michael brings to the process. It allowed me to live my dream.