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Ask Slashdot: Find a Job In China For Non-native Speaker?
An anonymous reader writes "My fiancée has recently been accepted into a Chinese university into their Ph.D. program, and I've been looking at jobs in China (specifically the Beijing area) and not having any success. I'm a developer with 8 years of experience (java), mostly on the server side, so I'm not lacking in the general experience, but the problem is I don't speak Mandarin or Cantonese. I am a native English speaker from Canada though. The only jobs I've had any responses from were teaching positions for simple English which isn't exactly my first choice. Has anyone had any experience or success as a programmer finding a job in China, without being able to speak the native language? Any websites I should be focusing on?"
Any websites I should be focusing on?"
This one.
That's what people who can't speak the language do in the US.
Wow. If you are going to be racist, you could at least make it fit the situation. You could have said he could get a job getting things down from the top shelf.
This summer -
Too long have the Chinese taken our good, American jobs. The time has come for Anonymous Coward to go to China...
AND TAKE.
THEM.
BACK.
(Coming to theaters Summer 2012.)
Screw the programming job, I suggest you hire yourself out as a technical manual writer or proofreader. I don't care how much they pay you, you should consider it a service to your native land.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
You don't want to go to Beijng. Trust me ... If you care about ... respect for (animal) life in general, stay in Canada.
The Chinese have a very deep respect for life and know how to treat every kind of animal appropriately.
For example, rats are roasted, scorpions are broiled, snails are put in noodles, cats make a good soup, and minnows are best slurped down live with some rice wine.
My Chinese brother-in-law put it this way to me.
An American man will see an animal he has never seen before and say, "What is that? Can it hurt me?"
A Chinese man will see an animal he has never seen before and say, "What is that? How should I cook it?"
God no. The last thing we need is a bunch of Chinese sprinkling 'eh' and 'dontchno' into their conversation.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
he so saaavy. he debug you long-time.
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