Message from @plasticsword
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@plasticsword damn dude you make 5000 a month? That's rough
Go teach English can make double that
5000 what currency?
RMB
Per month, after tax
So like $800
USD
Just bought my flight bros. Going to spend Chinese New year here and then go back to USA for 2 months
With my fiancee and her mom (but the mom will leave after 2 weeks)
What kind of lifestyle does this salary allow you in China?
5000 RMB
its like an internship
its like an internship
5000 RMB
Significantly better than most Chinese
im an assistant engineer doing firmware dev
For an internship that's great. Never seen an intern getting that much in Italy
been here for a year
You can live pretty cheap if you live like a local, but if you want any kind of Western amenities , it's tough
Nice, firmware development is amazing
Why? Contract ending?
no I just don't like it here
can't speak to anyone
I'll admit the best part about teaching English in China is the time off. I know we are wage cucks in America, but when I taught English I got 3 weeks paid time off a year, plus China has like 3 weeks of holidays , and then I was allowed a break for 3 weeks to visit home
Try to get into xiaomi, they rejected me only for lack of written Chinese
everyone assume I know chink so its a lot of hassle with intetaction
Honestly in America it's common just to get ten days paid time off and then holidays. But the holidays fall on random days so it's impossible to travel
Here, they structure it so the weekend coincides with holidays usually, so you can at least get 3-4 day weekends
I like my current gig the best because I work from home on my PC and I make my own hours, so I pretty much can do whatever I want. Work plus travel together
I want to stay in firmware/software
pretty hard since I don't have an computer science/ele eng degree
Do you want to stay in china? You would probably enjoy Shanghai and can probably get a job
Oh, yeah that'll be tough then
China don't hire much of those people as far as I'm aware
Yeah not much
@plasticsword what degree do you have?
medical engineering
but my project was pretty electrical/software heavy
800$..
Can you do much with that in China?