Ask Slashdot: Find a Job In China For Non-native Speaker? 402
An anonymous reader writes "My fiancée has recently been accepted into a Chinese university into their Ph.D. program, and I've been looking at jobs in China (specifically the Beijing area) and not having any success. I'm a developer with 8 years of experience (java), mostly on the server side, so I'm not lacking in the general experience, but the problem is I don't speak Mandarin or Cantonese. I am a native English speaker from Canada though. The only jobs I've had any responses from were teaching positions for simple English which isn't exactly my first choice. Has anyone had any experience or success as a programmer finding a job in China, without being able to speak the native language? Any websites I should be focusing on?"
Everyone speaks pictograms (Score:5, Funny)
Any websites I should be focusing on?"
This one [mcdonalds.com.cn].
Re:Construction or landscaping (Score:5, Funny)
That's what people who can't speak the language do in the US.
Wow. If you are going to be racist, you could at least make it fit the situation. You could have said he could get a job getting things down from the top shelf.
Takin' our jobs! (Score:5, Funny)
This summer -
Too long have the Chinese taken our good, American jobs. The time has come for Anonymous Coward to go to China...
AND TAKE.
THEM.
BACK.
(Coming to theaters Summer 2012.)
Are you nuts? (Score:5, Funny)
Screw the programming job, I suggest you hire yourself out as a technical manual writer or proofreader. I don't care how much they pay you, you should consider it a service to your native land.
Re:OH my... (Score:5, Funny)
You don't want to go to Beijng. Trust me ... If you care about ... respect for (animal) life in general, stay in Canada.
The Chinese have a very deep respect for life and know how to treat every kind of animal appropriately.
For example, rats are roasted, scorpions are broiled, snails are put in noodles, cats make a good soup, and minnows are best slurped down live with some rice wine.
Forget Cantonese (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Construction or landscaping (Score:4, Funny)
Hard to claim racism when no race is mentioned in the question or the answer, only language, though I do see where you're coming from.
How would you call that? Languagism?
Re:OH my... (Score:5, Funny)
My Chinese brother-in-law put it this way to me.
An American man will see an animal he has never seen before and say, "What is that? Can it hurt me?"
A Chinese man will see an animal he has never seen before and say, "What is that? How should I cook it?"
Re:Start Studying (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Construction or landscaping (Score:4, Funny)
What about round-eye gigolo, with a giant "proposition"?
Re:maybe not developing? (Score:5, Funny)
God no. The last thing we need is a bunch of Chinese sprinkling 'eh' and 'dontchno' into their conversation.
Re:OH my... (Score:4, Funny)
Your Chinese brother in law needs to get out of American cities.
'How should I cook it?' is the default position, world wide. Try the possum it's good.
I fed a bunch of morons (like the sib AC) beef marinated in Oyster sauce. Told them it was dolphin after they ate some. Good fun, two made themselves puke, claiming they were going to take the puke in for testing and send me to federal prison. I hope they did. I hope it cost them lots of $$.
Re:Construction or landscaping (Score:5, Funny)
he so saaavy. he debug you long-time.
Re:OH my... (Score:3, Funny)