Matty Posted October 10, 2011 at 04:06 AM Report Posted October 10, 2011 at 04:06 AM So I'm no English teacher and have no interest in it at all. I'm an IT graduate and my past work experience involves • 1 year working at McDonalds • 1 year teaching English in a university in China • 1 year teaching IT in a university in Australia My skills are mostly in the IT industry and involving Java, PHP, SQL, and a little more around the web development field. I'm currently living in Nanning but am wanting to go back north to Beijing or Harbin. I'm looking for some stability, something that can give me a legal working visa. I'd appreciate any advice anyone can provide on what sort of work is around for a foreigner and where/how I can look for these jobs. The work doesn't necessarily have to be related to IT. Quote
jasoninchina Posted October 10, 2011 at 04:42 AM Report Posted October 10, 2011 at 04:42 AM How's your Chinese? Quote
Matty Posted October 10, 2011 at 04:57 AM Author Report Posted October 10, 2011 at 04:57 AM My Chinese usually ok at a social level but once you get into any sort of professional topic I begin to fall behind a bit. I'm starting to learn a bit of IT professional vocabulary as some of my friends are graduating and starting to talk to me about their work and I'm slowly learning as I encounter new words. My reading isn't great and my writing is pretty bad, but sougou helps a lot with that. I've been speaking Chinese reasonably fluently for the last 4 years here in China, the first year I'll say I wasn't very fluent. The only place I really use English anymore is on the internet, the rest of my life is spent using 99.9% Chinese. Edited: I have fluent social Chinese skills but little in the way of professional Chinese language skills. Technical terms trip me up all the time, but I'm getting there slowly. Quote
prateeksha Posted October 10, 2011 at 04:58 AM Report Posted October 10, 2011 at 04:58 AM Matty, I could say my situation is pretty alike. I have a degree in Electronics engineering, 1 year experience in McDonald's back in India and 6 years of content writing experience. I have studied Chinese for 2 years already and now I am in China to study Chinese for another year. After I finish this course, I wish to work in China, although I have no idea what kind of job I could get with a profile like mine. Quote
Matty Posted October 11, 2011 at 12:03 AM Author Report Posted October 11, 2011 at 12:03 AM Er, ok prateeksha, not sure if there's any advice in there though... Does anyone have some wisdom or thoughts? I'd really appreciate them. There seems to be little work in Harbin and I'm not at all familiar with Beijing. Quote
lansu Posted October 11, 2011 at 01:57 AM Report Posted October 11, 2011 at 01:57 AM You don't say whether you'd consider teaching IT in China ... The university I taught at for a few years let out last year that official policy has shifted away from hiring teachers of English, and towards hiring "content" experts ... If teaching is out of the question, and you are good at IT, why not apply to one of the many city-specific expat websites, such as tianjinexpats.com ... Quote
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