Quote: (07-24-2012 09:22 AM)keepreal Wrote:
Quote: (07-24-2012 08:39 AM)Nonpareil Wrote:
Going off your typing, your English grammar seems fine (don't know for spoken, but people who can write well tend to speak well).
Your game is weak? Good news; you need to scale back your traditional American caveman Alpha-ing in China, or at least I did. Maybe it's because I'm like Chinese-dream caliber (6'3, blue eyes, white, nice teeth, some of my former muscular build remains [though most has been destroyed by the lack of gyms and rice-noodle diet]), I barely have to try to get QQ and digits and set up from there; road-tripping to see two (possibly three) girls in the month of August.
Get a job (seriously, it's fucking easy), go chop some honeys, get a girlfriend and make that shit happen. You think after the ride I was given in June that I was down on myself? I got a job within a week that pays better and is in a better place, and I'm a hard-partying narcissist; you can do it if I can do it.
Did you go online or you just went to the school and try to make interview? How is it that easy? What is your credential and your logistics? In the beginning, I was pissed that no one replied except for one person, and I still did not get the job after my interview. Dude, my spoken English is much better than my English when I type. My Chinese has gotten mediocre after years of little use of it, but still not bad, I just need to learn and practice using higher level of Chinese beyond basic communication shit. I am also under 25 and all the schools says I need to at least 25 to get a work visa. Yeah, me too I haven't gone to gym for like two months too, but I have been doing push up, pull ups, and sit ups everyday though. But I will have an interview for a job in southern Russia soon and I will definitely take that if I get it, otherwise maybe somewhere in Taiwan, Georgia, or China. Shit this internet at this house is cunt.
Well one advantage I have over you; I am white, Canadian, born in Canada, lived in Canada for most of my life, so I have the white-guy effect and the native speech going for me, that is huge. However, I do not speak Chinese beyond a basic level (still enough to chop leads, but not enough to hold a conversation). If you have that, but it's rusty, you could somehow try to bone up.
I have a University degree that is basically useless (English Lit) and I went and got a TESOL certificate (links in my thread, just a few threads down). My instructor set me up, but next time (as in next year, after going home for 1-2 months), when I come back, I'm doing the Dave's ESL Cafe thing myself and negotiating my own pay so I get more money.
I have no idea about the 25 work VISA thing; friend is 23 and she just got her work VISA in Hong Kong, but then again...she's a white girl from California, and I have noticed there is evident bias and favoritism to foreigners, at least in some areas.
As for the gym thing, I mean yeah it hurts, but at the same time, it's doing nothing to stop my game; I am 6'3 and about 180 as of this writing (I arrived around 195, but dipped to lower than 170 at one point), and when the average Chinese guy is like 5'7 130, I'm still pretty damn dà in comparison. Having lost what took pretty much 14 months to build has not slowed my roll in the slightest.
If you would rather go into business I'd plan trips to Guangzhou and Yiwu in the future.
gds555 - Trust me, his grammar is tens of times better than some people I have met over here who speak English well...
they tend type , like this and have to ask , multiple people is questions about job credential for hiring , and check background before we hiring you.
Admittedly it's not the greatest, but at least he doesn't forget (or mix up) his prepositions all the time ('the boys is playing!', 'the boys are playing!'), has a grasp of tensing, capitalization and doesn't comma-splice the shit out of everything.
Trust me, even teaching my smart kids (who can read, write and speak fairly well) this shit and making it stick is difficult as hell.
