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Mr Pete · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 10

I've just quit my job as an employment adviser (boring work, long hours), and I'll be heading off to China next month.

What did you do in your home country before you went over to China to teach?

kev7161 · Joined: 06 Feb 2004 Posts: 5880 Location: Suzhou, China

Teacher; before that - substitute teacher! It's in the blood I guess.

fitzgud · Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 148 Location: Henan province

Wringer out for a one armed window cleaner, and then, well, I hate prosthetics!

BlakeinChina · Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 8

I was a pilot...

sooo much more money being an aviator, but no where near as rewarding as teaching. I'm acutally making about 7% of what i used to make( no joke), but my happiness factor has improved 100%.

Zero · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 1402

How old are you guys? are you married?

BlakeinChina · Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 8

25, never married...

I guess that's why its so easy to pick up and leave though...

Brian Caulfield · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 1247 Location: China

I worked for J Smuggins folding towels in Vagus.

Mr Pete · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 10

i'm 23, not married

Sonnibarger · Joined: 15 May 2007 Posts: 320 Location: Wuhan

I worked in addiction, at a rehab center. I was drinking and smoking like a mad man so i decided I better move to China... 25 no kids never married.

fitzgud · Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 148 Location: Henan province

Between wives, fortunately neither of them is mine.

Beyond1984 · Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Posts: 462

"What did you do in your home country before you went over to China to teach?" -Mr Pete

As I have written elsewhere, near the end of March, 1845, I borrowed an axe and went down to the woods by Walden Pond, nearest to where I intended to build my house, and began to cut down some tall, arrowy white pines, still in their youth, for timber.

-HDT

"How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it."
-Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," 1849

cj750s · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:51 am Post subject:

blow some of that timber smoke my way would ya....

arioch36 · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 3589

Burger King! Flame -broiled the way nature intended. Why aren't there any in China! Evil or Very Mad

Lobster · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:51 am Post subject:

Shanghai has Burger King; nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah! Razz

When will we get White Castle, Orange Julius or Jack in the Box?

Has anyone ever seen a drive-through in China?

Oh, I was an English teacher/DOS back home before I came here. Yeah, that was the original burger, erm .. topic.

RED

Beyond1984 · Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Posts: 462

"Burger King! Flame -broiled the way nature intended. Why aren't there any in China!" -arioch36

Their dearth is easily understood. My cute Chinese girlfriend and, I daresay, her race appreciate and understand my view, as I have written elsewhere, that a reasonable man can desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, nothing more than a reasonable number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt.

-HDT

"How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it."
-Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," 1849