I passed my first full year working in Korea last week, and I noticed my daily life has become very different from when I first arrived. Because of rotating shifts, I don’t really plan big weekends anymore; I just keep small routines like laundry after work, a quiet meal, and calling family when the time zone works 🙂. It sounds simple, but it actually helped me feel more settled at the company because I stopped expecting every week to look the same. Anyone else here started enjoying Korea in smaller pieces because of their work schedule?

I passed my first full year working in Korea last week, and I noticed my daily life has become very different from when I first arrived. Because of rotating shifts, I don’t really plan big weekends anymore; I just keep small routines like laundry after work, a quiet meal, and calling family when the time zone works 🙂. It sounds simple, but it actually helped me feel more settled at the company because I stopped expecting every week to look the same. Anyone else here started enjoying Korea in smaller pieces because of their work schedule?

La semana pasada cumplí mi primer año completo trabajando en Corea, y me di cuenta de que mi vida diaria ha cambiado mucho desde que llegué por primera vez. Debido a los turnos rotativos, ya no suelo planear grandes fines de semana; simplemente mantengo pequeñas rutinas como lavar la ropa después del trabajo, cenar tranquilamente y llamar a mi familia cuando la diferencia horaria lo permite 🙂. Suena simple, pero en realidad me ayudó a sentirme más asentado/a en la empresa porque dejé de esperar que cada semana fuera igual. ¿Alguien más por aquí ha empezado a disfrutar Corea en pequeñas dosis por su horario de trabajo?