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Been thinking a lot about moving back to China. Once I get my health issues straightened out (assuming they're just not all in my head), it's becoming more and more clear that I should probably just skip the whole finding a job in the US thing.
Ok, I know it sounds irresponsible, but hear me out. I had been looking for a job (but not as hard as I should have been) but having no luck. Say I were to find a job here, working retail or something, I might make what, $8 an hour? And if I could get full time, that totals to about $1,200 in a month. Naturally, I will be taxed for about a third of that, which will net me a whopping $800 a month. Maybe. IF I can even FIND a job.
Now, if I were to straight up accept a teaching job in China, they would pay for my airfare and give me something like 7,500元 a month. That comes out somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,100. Some jobs even offer more money on top of that, like 1k元 for housing every month, bi-yearly travel allowances and return airfare at the end of the year. Now, I'm not sure how the whole tax thing works in China, and even if there is wage tax, but even at the 30% mark, I am still doing better than in the US because of the fact that the economies are so vastly different. Things remain comparatively cheap, and I can live on very little money there. Hell, when I was in Beijing, I could live off $30 a month for food. Not exactly the highest quality of foods, but hey, it IS doable. And I could totally eat boiled dumplings every day for a damn year.
Anyway, the point is, why am I wasting my time looking for a job here, having no luck, when I can pretty much instantly find a job in China, hop on a plane and be making decent money before the end of the year? The biggest reason was so that I could afford to pay back money loaned to me from family and buy a few things I would like to have before I left again, but what's the point? Why suffer here for months on end when I don't have to? All the things I want to buy I can find in China, for at the most, the same price as here.
This all, of course, hinges on me seeing a doctor and making sure there's nothing seriously wrong with me. And if there is, getting it fixed. If I need to have some crazy procedure done, like having my gizzard removed, I imagine that will alter things a bit.
Anyway, just thinking out loud. Still not sure what I'm gonna do yet. But I DO know I can't keep doing what I've BEEN doing, which is nothing.
Ok, I know it sounds irresponsible, but hear me out. I had been looking for a job (but not as hard as I should have been) but having no luck. Say I were to find a job here, working retail or something, I might make what, $8 an hour? And if I could get full time, that totals to about $1,200 in a month. Naturally, I will be taxed for about a third of that, which will net me a whopping $800 a month. Maybe. IF I can even FIND a job.
Now, if I were to straight up accept a teaching job in China, they would pay for my airfare and give me something like 7,500元 a month. That comes out somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,100. Some jobs even offer more money on top of that, like 1k元 for housing every month, bi-yearly travel allowances and return airfare at the end of the year. Now, I'm not sure how the whole tax thing works in China, and even if there is wage tax, but even at the 30% mark, I am still doing better than in the US because of the fact that the economies are so vastly different. Things remain comparatively cheap, and I can live on very little money there. Hell, when I was in Beijing, I could live off $30 a month for food. Not exactly the highest quality of foods, but hey, it IS doable. And I could totally eat boiled dumplings every day for a damn year.
Anyway, the point is, why am I wasting my time looking for a job here, having no luck, when I can pretty much instantly find a job in China, hop on a plane and be making decent money before the end of the year? The biggest reason was so that I could afford to pay back money loaned to me from family and buy a few things I would like to have before I left again, but what's the point? Why suffer here for months on end when I don't have to? All the things I want to buy I can find in China, for at the most, the same price as here.
This all, of course, hinges on me seeing a doctor and making sure there's nothing seriously wrong with me. And if there is, getting it fixed. If I need to have some crazy procedure done, like having my gizzard removed, I imagine that will alter things a bit.
Anyway, just thinking out loud. Still not sure what I'm gonna do yet. But I DO know I can't keep doing what I've BEEN doing, which is nothing.