25 Years Old and an Offshore IT Manager

dcblogs writes "The Chinese outsourcing market, at $1.7 billion last year, is growing at 38% a year, according to research by the Everest Group. This is creating opportunities for Westerners who want to go to China, learn the language, and help these Chinese offshore companies reach overseas markets. There are job opportunities for people with management experience or who are young and willing to gamble. Here's the story of one 25-year-old who started learning Mandarin on his plane ride over to China, three years ago, and is now an international development manager for an IT offshoring firm."

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Keep in mind

[TubeSteak]

Learning the Chinese language isn't enough.
You have to learn the culture too.

The good news is that being white is a free status booster.
The bad news is that being dark skinned means the exact opposite.

I don't think we have any idea

[smchris]

My wife and I were unemployed about a year and a half ago and we decided to take several very decent classes on 21st century job hunting presented by our state job service. The thing is, it was mandatory networking/extroversion to introduce yourself in some detail each time. I'd say probably 1 in 20 was just back from teaching English on the Mainland (2), Taiwan (1) or Thailand (1). Who'da thunk, because how often are you free to survey a room full of the unemployed?

Note, however, that they were _back_ from those jobs looking for something else so that should hint that Asia wasn't paradise.