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Q: What jobs do you guys have?
I'm starting my search for a new job, and need some ideas! What do you guys do here?
I've been a copy-editor for a while now, and am considering switching to something more marketing focused or maybe PR?
9 years 27 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
I started as Oral English (non-native) teacher in 2009, and my last offer is 'subject English teacher' at Uni/Middle School.
'Subject' (as I understand) will be 'critical thinking/math/sociology' as soon as my employer get 'authorization to hire FT'
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We signed Contract for Oral English Teacher, and my RPermit expired, because School couldn't extend it.
School (and I) will undergo new WPermit&Inv. letter application, and Z at my home's Chinese Embassy.
I'm not sure, if you can get any ideas from my post. I'd say: ''DON'T get any ideas from this mess".
R&D scientist, biotech, on the computer side of things (ie. digging into biological data and trying to make sense out of it, armed with my computer, lots of coffee, a pen and paper.)
I started as lecturer, moved into the industrial side of the Force little by little. I met my boss in an elevator, he was like "HO HAI !" so I was like "HO HAI !", and then he was like "wanna join my startup, we are like, 5 people", so I said "sounds cool, man". Fast-forward a few years, we are close to 50, but no cigars and Ferraris yet. Real story.
DrMonkey:
China is a gold mine for this kind of opportunities: large demand, desperately short local supply. Rather than competing back home for underfunded academic positions, China can be a good option, if you're a bad enough dude ^^
Entrepreneur and digital designer. Kind of migrated over to it after getting out of the ESL game.
I am starting up a business to help foreigners buy stuff on Taobao (going up this month!). Besides that, I design UI/UX for web and mobile applications for start-ups and large corporations (same you have heard about). On the side, I teach classes for Mobile App UI Design and Adobe Illustrator to students worldwide (mainly American students in the U.S.) on a portal called eClasses.org (great place to learn new skills btw, teaches about 100+ classes in skills).
Just build this up on the side with all that free time I had from doing ESL teaching. Getting into marketing both locally and online would be a good idea.
Hotel Manager.
In my free time I do some extras as article poster for 50 cents.
I'm an English teacher, mostly to kids. It's an enormous pain in the arse a lot of the time but I manage to have a laugh with them. I believe the children are the future, give them wings and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. And if that don't work I smack 'em around a bit.
tomcatflyer:
Glad to see you have your feet firmly planted on the ground as always, mArtiAn.
Most of us are probably English teachers. I doubt China hires other positions since the ordinary Chinese can handle them just fine. The only time that they truly need to hire a foreigner is for these cutting edge tech positions. But we all know that no foreigners will come here because these cutting edge positions pay so much more in their native countries.
Robk:
I don't know, by the posts it seems like 50% ESL teachers and 50% not.
Or around the range of 60-70% to 30-40%.
Some Chinese companies are paying very well for foreigner talent as they know the conditions here are not ideal and lots of talent is being lost to the West. Also, they can save more in China, if they are willing to compromise on their lifestyle.
Self employed whistle blower and solver of problems.
Into all kinds of product safety problems, quality issues, crisis management scenarios and product recall. I also do a lot of investigation work for insurance companies when claims arise in Asia Pacific.
I'm a translator, so I reckon it is mainly people who either have special skills or language related/education jobs. 
