deal-breakers

I'm almost 57 years old. In the States, someone my age in a white-collar job ought to be making close to $100,000 a year on average, assuming a reasonable cost of living. Here I am, though, about to start all over from Square One. 

So I'm back to my deal-breakers as I look for work:

• no kids
• no weekends
• no split shifts
• nothing under W3 million a month

W3 million/month is around half of what I'd been making at my previous job, but at this point, I can't be too choosy about my salary.

I'm not just looking for work on Dave's ESL Cafe (which is still showing only a single university job); I'm also looking at places like Craigslist as well as directly on university sites. Craigslist is filled with ads for hagweons; average offered salary is W2.7 million/month, and you have to work with kindergartners and grade-schoolers. No, thanks.

So next week, I'll be developing some presentation packages and getting in contact with my old employer, KMA, whom I had left when they stopped giving me steady work ten years ago (and when I had gotten employed by the Golden Goose). I have some ideas, and we'll see how all of that goes. KMA normally doesn't hire you unless you're already working at another job. I assume that's for legal reasons, so I'm going to try to pull the old F-4 trick on them. In theory, with an F-4, I don't need to be sponsored by a university or whatever to get another job, so I'm hoping there's no legal problem. Let's find out together shall we?