A bunch of summer-camp job ads are out now at Dave's ESL Cafe, and for a while, I seriously considered breaking one of my own rules and applying to work at a camp. Then I watched a video, linked on one of the job ads, that showed summer-camp activities from the previous year. And I quickly changed my mind.
If you like kids, have a lot of energy, and enjoy leading those wild, squirmy little creatures in activities like songs and games and other social activities, then summer camp is definitely for you, but it sure as hell isn't for me. I shriveled in fear when I saw what was going on in that video. Frankly, I have a lot of respect for people who teach classrooms full of kids. It takes a ton of energy, and you have to be "on" at every moment. Not to mention alert for shenanigans ranging from innocent to malicious.
So I'm still waiting for a decent university ad to appear. In truth, there have been a few, at both Dave's ESL and at another site called Unijobs.kr (thanks, Daniel), but most of those jobs require a Ph.D as well as a proposed research topic (if you write an article while you're a professor at University X, that's a feather in University X's cap). One Yonsei ad looked tempting at first, then I saw that the job wouldn't start until early 2027, and I don't have enough cash to last that long (plus, it's another one of those doctoral-level jobs).
Something will show up soon, I'm sure. It's the season for uni ads.
Meanwhile, in other news, the post office sent me an automatic notification that the FBI has received my fingerprints. I'm either going to get rejected when my prints prove unacceptable or going to get a criminal background check mailed back to me in a few weeks. (I hear the FBI, being a governmental agency, works molasses-slowly.)
For the moment, I'm using my time to complete my movie-review-book manuscript. I just finished the table of contents, the front matter, the afterword, and the ending bio. Still to do: the preface. Then I have to review the table of contents to make sure the chapter numbers all match up, and that none of the chapter numbers got skipped or otherwise miswritten in either the table of contents or on the chapters themselves. After all of that is done, I think I can convert the file to the .kpf format and upload everything. After that, making the dead-tree version of the book ought to be easy.
After I finish the ebook and get it published, I'll turn my attention to registering on Soomgo, the find-a-tutor app used by Korean mothers to locate area tutors (Soomgo is for a variety of services ranging from EFL tutoring to housecleaning to car repair). I had put my in-apartment ad up a few days ago, but there's been not a single nibble thus far. Soomgo, despite online chatter about how competitive it is, looks more promising. We'll see what happens. I'm not too hopeful; summer is the a major time for Korean families to go together on major trips. Then again, I've been away from in-home tutoring for years, so I need to relearn the market. I'm sure there's plenty that I don't know.
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