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

need to find something new though

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?

Depends on the city

My old City wuhan had 11mil population and people considered $800 a month a good job for a man in his late 20s

Like, that's considered middle class apparently

I know a guy that basically stays at a hotel for 1k rmb a month

I know a guy that basically stays at a hotel for 1k rmb a month