Budget

[tehloch]

I am realizing that the likelihood of me having to get some minimum wage job until I get a teaching job is quite high. I started planning a budget around that and I'm starting to wonder how I ever managed on that little before. Full-time minimum wage is about $1000 per month. Last time I had an apartment it was $600 and they were about to raise the

Comments

[maddyriddle]

You may want to consider how much money you'll earn (and more important, how much money you're taking back home with you after expenses and all were paid) after a year of teaching in South Korea.

One of my LJ friends is in her second year teaching in Japan and she's enjoying it and saving money.

One year is not a lot of time, and if you're going to save enough to make it more easy to live until you find a job afterwards I'd say go for it.

[tehloch]

It's definitely something to consider. I can always go on the forum for one of the online placements and ask around about how much cost of living would be and all that.

Do you know which online service your friend went through?