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Q: Do I have to learn driving for getting a job in western country?
I lost my job opportunity in the US as I can't drive. But I am not gonna give it up applying. Do I have to learn driving for me to get job in other western countries?
Just what the western world needs
Another female asian driver on yhe road
and yes I am married to one so i speak from a factual vantage point
and usaly with my eyes closed in fear
Just what the western world needs
Another female asian driver on yhe road
and yes I am married to one so i speak from a factual vantage point
and usaly with my eyes closed in fear
It depends on the job, what sort of job are you looking for?
Generally though, having a driving license can't hurt when job hunting.
Viki87:
The job I used to get in the US is marketing and business development for a Chinese furniture company.
i prefer working in marketing,business development or purchasing for international business.
Stiggs:
I suppose my question then is, would that be the type of job where you'd need to get out and about and visit different places?
Seems to me it would be, so being able to drive would be important.
you can take driving lessons in america for 30 to 70 dollars an hour with an instructor, depends on the city you will be living in, probably cheaper to learn in china, smaller cities in china have no waiting for a class and it may cost 2 to 3000 rmb for the class. goami city is 2200 jinan is 3 to 6000, dont let driving stop you from getting out this useless cesspool they call china.
Viki87:
But I am working in Shanghai. It costes 10000rmb to get driving license and it takes a long time to get a driving license.
ambivalentmace:
not sure if you have weekends off to travel to a cheaper city and take a class, some people take a class on weekends for about 4 months.
a strange story for you to consider, i send my students to british columbia to finish the last year of high school, they take a written driving test multiple choice on a computer and get a "learners license" which allows them to drive with an adult driver in the car. since the chinese at the license offices here dont know much english, they assume it is a regular legal license and my students in canada use the learners permit to get a license in china for the cost of 20 dollars they paid in canada and the fee in china but no class required, and have never driven a car. what a great country. then it gets better, now they have a real chinese drivers license and they go back to canada for college and swap the real chinese license for a real full legal license in canada with just a written test and they still have never driven a car. if the province make the test english only they go to ontario or prince edward island to take the test in chinese and then move the license back to british columbia.
cub:
in the other countries u want to work/drive do u need a international drivers license or insurance to be covered if u are not from there originally?
ambivalentmace:
every country is different, but basically for the states, if your country is a developed country that does not need a visa to travel as a tourist, like canada, taiwan, japan, you can drive with home country license in a rental car, and americans can do the same there, reciprocity, but if you are going to reside there, you need the local license of that country, some will accept an international license, but the number of countries that take it get smaller every year because of all the scams of selling fake international drivers licenses, insurance in china for cars is strange, not based on young, old, car color, license record, annual cost is 10 percent of the government assigned value of the car, but this is changing to more risk type system ever so slowly.
cub:
@ambivalentmace The way i understand it like this, If a foriegn lady like from china is over in the US on a visitor visa for a month stay in the US And she wants to lease rent or buy a car to drive while visiting she is required to have a international DL or take a driving test either writen or a actual driving test pass it then get a DL in order to be allowed to drive At least thats the way i was told!
ambivalentmace:
cub, that is true for china, an undeveloped country, but if she was from japan, reciprocity is allowed and she could drive on her japanese license and rent a car, some states in america are also more lenient, las vegas wants tourists, so you can drive a car and rent a car with a chinese drivers license on a tourist visa, but dont drive to california, you will be in jail.
basically the developed countries are given the benefit of the doubt in regards to their citizens travelling to america and operating a vehicle on the highway, but if you from an undeveloped country where driver safety is not enforced and people cant drive courteously, you are guilty of being a bad driver till you prove otherwise, international license, written test, insurance deposits, whatever the government wants to do to deter you from driving, new zealand has learned this the hard way by letting chinese tourists drive and rent cars, passing in no passing zones, not following the rules, many traffic deaths in the news for the past 3 years.
It depends upon whether you will visit your johns or just stand on the corner.
It will help so much if you can drive. They might as you how you will get to work, if you can drive, than you'll get a job much more easier.
