a friend of mine was telling me about some friend of his who went to grad school in China right after college. i dunno if it was even tech, but he had studied mandarin in undergrad.
his first several years, he would comeback for the holidays and big family stuff. then he got some job there. over the years he would return less and less, until eventually he just stopped coming back to the US.
can you imagine? it sounds like something out of a fairy tale.
sounds like something out of a NYTimes propaganda piece tbh. RIP your friend, the CCP got to him
Wow, that's disgusting! Where would someone go to get bombarded with these tech job offers? You know, so I can avoid them?
Beware
spoiler
google China job board and you can find plenty of jobs to apply to
https://jobs.echinacities.com/
https://www.hiredchina.com/jobs
https://www.laowaicareer.com/
I'd love to be poached but I'm afraid I'm just tech, no talent.
Same 😔
: "Whoa....I'm richer than ever...I have been having the best past five years of my life! I think....I think...."
: "I'll fire everyone and have those that remain pick up the slack, clearly I don't need so many workers!"
: "Hello western tech workers, did you get burned by porky? Here, come work with us."
: "Whoa whoa whoa....that's MY reserve army of labor to sit on and do nothing with!"
i request bombardment by job offer, yes on my position please. danger close is a risk im willing to take
Surely, this is just a case where the invisible hand of the free market will be trusted to solve this issue without any intervention from Western governments and those aligned with them, no?
I don't have any marketable skills but you could hire me as a western jester. If you tell me to dance like a monkey I'll do it. Please China, please 🥺
If you tell me to dance like a monkey I'll do it.
Can you afford to get there on a tourist visa? I forget the name for "white monkey" jobs but there's an industry (and I think still demand) for sure. Also just about any university qualification can get you an English teaching job in a bunch of actually-existing-communism countries still. I know that's out of reach for most people but fuck it, if you leave after graduation who's gonna try and debt collect the loans? lol
Holding out hope that ornamental hermits will catch on in China
I guess that's the natural outcome of underpayment. The west should be freaking out.
Poach me please
Me please I am tech
Staff with access to sensitive Zeiss know-how received LinkedIn messages, emails and calls from Huawei representatives, offering them up to three times their salaries to join the Chinese company, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
3x? LOL ok if they came to me with that id be willing to degrade myself for the position. xi pls
Also, it's 3x typical tech wages. Even outside the typical tech hubs, that's still a high paying position, and you'd be making that much in a country with a massively lower COL.
I shouldn’t have ghosted that recruiter a few years back
Tell me where and how and I'll sign the fuck up
State funding for Chinese companies enables them to offer salaries beyond what Western companies can pay.
but muh free markets!
maybe the West shouldn't have done massive sweeping industry-wide layoffs then
Lol stupid the west
What can a tech mediocrity get?
Fyi if you're from the West it's highly likely you'd hate working in China in the tech industry, it is a grind, even the none 996 companies
Was looking here the other day incidentally, looks like there are a bunch of jobs of all kinds https://www.echinacities.com/
, another banger
CHINA is SHOOTING at INNOCENT WESTERNERS with MONEY and JOBS!
It's a brilliant use of their dollar reserves. Ya know, beyond issuing bonds in USD
Wait fuck if I finish my degree I can escape???
I mean, they are still taking pretty much anyone with a bachelor's degree as an English teacher in China, Vietnam, Thailand, SA, Korea, Japan, etc. Just get a TEFL/TESOL certificate and it shouldn't be hard to find a job that will get you a work visa in another country.
Fucken a you can. One of my highschool friends is a world-top-tier mathematician and he's spent most of his adult life working in China doing work way below his capabilities just because he gets to be left alone and live outside of the western hegemony. Mufucka turned me on to communism when we were like 12. It's a shame really, in a better world he'd be the sort of mind that could solve serious fucking problems. But I think he's mostly happy with how things have panned out.
The only downside is it's hard for ex-pat workers to have true security in China (or has been, might've changed VERY recently) due to restrictive visas and few pathways to full citizenship for westoids.
I have heard of Africans who got jobs with Chinese companies. Doubt it’ll ever happen in Guatemala with our lack of tech talent lol
Be the change you want to see in the world! I don’t think anyone would stereotype Africa as a hub of tech talent either
Is there anyone actually talented in "tech"?
experienced is probably a better word
god i wish that were me
Can I bring my dog and my asexual life partner? It's okay none of us can breed and I'm volcel anyway.
Please choose me next xi, #SOSUSA
How dare they not follow along with western tech's wage fixing agreements!
Why did I graduate art school and not tech. It's like I'm trying to not have a job
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