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So /trv/ I am a 23 year old computer technician, no college just a high school degree and a vocational school certification. I need a life changing experience. I want to move to China (Hong Kong, Shanghai or Beijing) or South Korea (Seoul, Busan, etc).Any reccomendations on jobs available for me in these places, site links, what to look for, how to not get screwed over, what to expect, getting a visa ,etc.
Anonymous
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OP here by moving I meant like a 6-month to 1-year stay if I can handle it.
Anonymous
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teaching english is good but you probably need a degree for it.
Anonymous
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4chan archive is down but there was a post from /trv archived there from someone who went to china and was able to get a job in china he did not have a degree, teaching english is an option but I was wondering if there were others.
Anonymous
>>73667 >I need a life changing experience. You don't really need to go to another country for that, man. I had a lot of them by staying up all night in NYC and talking to random people on the streets and trains.
Anonymous
>>73677 I've done the New York thing I'm from NJ. I really wanna leave USA for a but and really see how good I have it.
Anonymous
>>73678 That is a retarded reason for leaving the US. I think you'll be surprised that some countries are freer than you can possibly imagine right now.
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>>73682 totaly agree with you,and besides that USA ain't all that great,maybe OP should read the news paper once(don't live in USA so i don't know but i hope you write about other countries and not just yourself) in a while and perhaps read up about other countries and not think that your countrie is all that good. And by the way if you go to a foreing country you will get screwed for money and what not,only way to prevent it is to speak the language or have a very good friend that speak the language and help you. But good luck finding a job without any fancy degree in anything, but dunno maybe you can sell coffe in a starbucks in China/SK or something like that.
Anonymous
Buy this book:
Anonymous
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>>73790 Not OP here, but thanks for this post.
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>>73790 Going somewhere from the US to see "how good you have it" is a moronic presupposition that your live in the US is better than where you're going. Enjoy most likely being proved wrong.
Anonymous
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OP here
stupid reason I know but i couldn't think of a better reason lets ignore the reason and say I want to go for experience.
also thankyou
>>73790 Anonymous
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Remember you won't earn enough money to pay for trips back home.
Anonymous
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I wouldn't do either. They have plenty of cheap computer technicians. Unless you want to be underpaid...
Anonymous
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>>73790 Just ordered this book, will be checking it out. Not OP but I am already in the planning stage to do a lot of traveling, currently in the process to sell off a large chunk of my possessions over the next year so I can have cash and nothing tying me down.
Anonymous
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OP maybe you should consider Taiwan
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It'll be a "life changing" experience to see that USA isn't the best place by far, so it'd be good for OP to go. I'd say any traveling is only good for you.
And about jobs and visas, a good place to start is the embassy of the country you want to go to, for example
http://www.koreaembassyusa.org/ Anonymous
can I sugest that you look at actually working for your embassy. many US govt agencies will pay technicians decent (US level) wages to work at embassy's, American schools, US chamber of commerce, ect. Otherwise look at US company s in Korea and China, because otherwise your competing with locals who work for less, work more hours, and speak the local language.
Anonymous
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>>74034 Being employed by the US government and living in a foreign country does not qualify for the foreign earned income exclusion.
Anonymous
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>>74034 OP here.
Hmm this sounds like an option anyone else know where I can find more information on this.
