Comments on: American Graduates Finding Jobs In China

By: enjoychinalife

enjoychinalife — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:17:21 +0000

No vacancies on horizon for 12m job seekers
Job seekers in China will face an uphill battle in the coming months and as many as 12 million may not find work this year even if the country hits its 8 percent growth target, the nation's top employment official said on Friday.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-08/2...

By: enjoychinalife

enjoychinalife — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:42:54 +0000

Yeah Mark…
Get over there and enjoy the nice polluted air/water with millions of uneducated Chinese who are constantly looking for a better live or to get rich quick. Hope you have good connections/guanxi to get a job there other than teaching English.

I've lived in China….it's interesting place, but you really should wake up to their reality. The grass isn't greener over there. They respect USA.

By: apettig

apettig — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:02:21 +0000

Sooooooo, When are you leaving Marc?????

By: pachigordo

pachigordo — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:32:08 +0000

Thanks for your insight and comments. China is a way-station to other places from the NYT article – such as Hong Kong, Singapore or Australia, but an important potential training ground for international business people just starting out. Chinese is really difficult and that is why they teach English so widely. If the American empire ends, we at least will give the world English as a lingua franca for many economic, political, businesses and cultural purposes. I am quite proficient in French & Italian (having lived and gone to school there 5 times) but I really have not used them regularly for 20 years thus my current fluency is debatable. My spouse is from Cartagena, Colombia and our young son just started a English/Spanish bilingual program in the 5th Grade – one of the few offered in Phoenix. I have not made any effort to teach him French in Arizona. Boys seems to learn foreign languages only when they have to and in 24/7 immersion situations. Girls are a bit different from the experience of friends and family. We have not gone to Europe since being married and our son's friends principally speak English. During the past 10 years some family in Europe have died off but I still keep up with some friends. I also have to admit to a serious time constraint for traveling, plus financial considerations with work spotty during a recession and the dollar being pretty worthless overseas. I think people should learn more languages and travel more to get a broader view on life. If some critics of foreign healthcare systems had actually been in those countries they demonized, their assessments would have been far different. Tongue-in-cheek notwithstanding, more Americans will probably look overseas for work and life as all the constitutional freedoms pale with actually making a living. Until and unless our government and private sector both create many new jobs, Americans of all ages are going to be in dire economic straights. Best wishes from the author of this post – MP

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By: pacatrue

pacatrue — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:32:27 +0000

Well, there's a lot of stuff here and I sense a serious tongue in cheek. Regardless, I just wanted to mention that one benefit to the U.S. over several other countries is that, by and large, the U.S. has a fair path to citizenship, while many other nations do not. China in particular has no path to full membership in its society. One remains a laowai. China (and I say this as a former (15 years ago) Asian Studies major in Chinese history who has studied in China and has thought about being an expat there again periodically) also of course has some serious drawbacks, namely political freedoms, or lack thereof. Many expats are willing to leave their opinions at home when they their current home is temporary, but many would not want to live permanently under the current Chinese oligarchy and its restrictions on freedom of speech, press, religion, etc.

Also worth mentioning that it is the very rare adult who can become fluent in Chinese in two years of living there. One can get by, but that's very different from being fluent.

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