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Networking Thursdays  - Volume 10

3/30/2017

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Phil Hadikin lives in Daejeon, South Korea and hails from Castlegar, BC, Canada.

I was finishing my first one-year contract at Woosong University (WSU) and was debating whether or not I was going to re-sign for another year.  It was late December and I had to make my decision quickly because the deadline date for my contract renewal was approaching in a few weeks.  One afternoon as I was checking my "snail mail” mailbox at the office, the Director of the Woosong Language Institute also came by to check his mailbox.  He asked my how well I knew the Russian language.  That was an "out of the blue" question to ask, I thought.  I replied that I was fluent in Russian, as I was an ethnic Russian-Canadian.  I asked him why he wanted to know and he replied that Woosong was opening a new program in the Railroad Department that was going to be based on teaching the Russian language to WSU Railroad Engineering students.  Then, he asked me if I would be interested in the job. I thought about it for a moment and then replied that I would take the job.  The next day, I told WSU that I would re-sign for another year.  


Well, that was 14 years ago.  Today, I still teach at WSU, but am not fully involved with the Russian side of it.  Someone else teaches Russian and it’s to nursing majors.  In 2005 WSU signed a partnership agreement with FESTU (Far East Transport  University) from Khabarovsk, Russia. WSU requested a Russian teacher to come and teach the Russian language.  That teacher agreed to come for a year, but after 11 years she is still teaching Russian at WSU and, oh yeah, we got married and have two sons.  I am still working in the Railroad Department but now I only teach English to my students. It's interesting how things work out.  As the saying goes, when one door closes another one opens.


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4/6/2017 01:00:03 am

I have a networking story that I would love to share. I've met someone before, in my class at our university. I didn't know who he was back then, as I treated him as a simple classmate. Little did I know that he owned a big corporation that is involved in the trading industry. Now, he is my friend and I believe that I can ask him for some advice on work if I ever needed one.

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