[starbase]

My word, that's good news!

Well that's nice of you to say, but I think I would prefer to stay in the US. OTOH, the working dynamic is totally different in Asia, and I think I might be happier there, now anyway.

What I mean is, most jobs don't start till 10:00am, and I will live very close to work. This job I'm looking at now is an evening job, so it doesn't start till 4pm!! and only goes to 9pm. Teaching's hard work, but now that I'm back in the US, the prospect of an actual 8 hour shift seems crappy (see how spoiled I am now?).

And only working evenings I would have all morning to do lots of other things, like check out what income I could create through different kinds of writing. I actually think there's lots of things to do in that arena (technical, corporate, creative, what have you), and I could do that all day on the Internet (and post to FR!) while I wait to go teach.

BUT, I was kind of hoping to stay here, but I guess I'm not really doing anything so critical that I have to stay here, so might as well head back. I wasn't expecting to be unable to use recruiters, and looking for each job singly is more time and money than I planned on spending!

Well I guess this time I can learn truly fluent Chinese (as opposed to just conversational) that should make things interesting!

[Soaring Feather]

I think you needed the break to touch base in the USA.

The work hours sound great don't they? I used to work at jobs where check in time was any where from 6am to 7am. Makes for a long day especially in winter months sloshing around in the cold and snow. You don't have to deal with that kind of weather in Taiwan.


You do like living and working there, or you would not have stayed there for so many years.

It's gonna work out fine.