Choose a part with less pollution, it can really fuck you up. I knew a former China based teacher and she had like, cigarette lungs when she left.
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can confirm, a couple of years in China 15 years ago and my respiratory system has never been the same
The easiest way would be through teaching English, but you can look at other career paths too. Many countries require a university degree and a clean criminal record for work permits, not sure about China specifically though. In some cases it can be worked around anyway. Look into work that ‘expats’ do in China and then see what the career paths are and which ones might be achievable for you
If you don't have a particular career path already, then teaching English is a common way for foreigners to live and work in China.
Idk but any criminal record in any country is an immediate and permanent disqualifer for ever working here. my fiancé is here, so I started to look into it, but having cannabis charges from when I was younger put a stop to that pretty quickly.
thankfully im too much of a stuck up nerd for weed
Vietnam is the easy mode version of this, purportedly. Alphabet instead of characters, I'm probably phrasing that wrongly to the extreme but you get me
thanks for the advice, but i'm learning chinese anyway as a hobby.
well then you must lol! it's awesome from what the ppl i know who went there tell me
yeah, I've heard great things. I'm a major train nerd so the HSR network really caught my eye among other things
This is basically what I was going to say.
It's been a while since I checked but last I heard, there's decent money that can be made as an English language tutor. Of course, business English tutoring attracts the best money and qualifications always help but you can go quite far if you commit to being a good tutor and put the effort in even without qualifications or having experience in business-speak.
Vietnam is pretty cheap with regards to the cost of living as well.
If I had to flee where I live and I had a choice, Vietnam would rank extremely high on my list.
But I think Vietnamese is deceptive with regards to ease of learning the language. Imo it's more difficult to master Vietnamese tones than the tones in Mandarin, and that's without incorporating the glottal stop that's very common in Vietnamese. The romanised script definitely lowers the bar for reading Vietnamese by a huge margin but it's a challenge to learn how to speak Vietnamese well.
@[email protected] very true about the tones but i consider reading and writing to ultimately be the biggest barrier to immersion learning in the age of online
That's a very good point.
Have you considered other options? Why China? Because it's AES?
yeah its AES and cause the cities are very walkable. also HSR is a major point
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
...Yeah idk
What's HSR?
Honkai: Star Rail
spoiler
High-speed rail
They all have rail lol
From what I've been able to gather, unless you plan to be an English teacher or have connections, you need to know Chinese. If you can take the opportunity, look into taking a semester or two at a Chinese University as an international student for a Chinese Language Course. Get your chinese as good as possible. That, on top of having a Bachelors or better, will open up the opportunities you need. Beyond that Linkedin is good if you already have that, and if you have enough 普通话 knowledge just apply on platforms like Zhaopin and 51Job.
thank you! very helpful 🙂
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Good luck in your journey, message me if you want to discuss at any point
谢谢你！
I'll probably be asking the same question in a few years, but for our entire family. Right now we're (sometimes) treading water financially, but we're taking Mandarin lessons as a family. I really hope that five to ten years from now, we can get the hell outta the west.
the two apps right now are boss直聘 and 智联招聘
youll have to know some chinese
youll get lots of compensation if youre willing to work in the less developed areas of the country
dont get scammed
thank you!