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welp fellas,

after working shitty corporate jobs in America, making well above the nation and local average, i somehow have less money than i did working bullshit jobs in china. Life here kind of sucks, and while there are many beautiful places in America, i don't get to see them because im stuck at this shitty job all the time. I don't even see my family any more than i would if i lived in China.

So.

I have a walk on spot at an easy breezy university job, what do you think? Go back to china and live the easy life, but have to deal with their pain in the ass government, or stay in america and live a safer life, but have to deal with my pain in the ass job.

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[–] derived_allegory 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I imagine the breezy university job probably refers to university outside of major cities? Or is major city job also chill?

Recently I find major city in China are quickly catching up to the U.S. in terms of living cost. But I imagine you can still live a good life in smaller cities like 重庆, 昆明 etc.

Personally I don't prefer to live in China because:

  1. I will very likely to always have the opportunity to live there, they are not going to kick me out (probably, if I talk less shit about them? To be fair, I talk shit about all the countries I have lived in.)
  2. Global internet is a huge deal for me. I rely on Wikipedia, YouTube, mastodon, Lemmy, and Signal. Also updating my OS will also be annoying, as AWS is blocked.
  3. I really hope they don't month-long reenact mass lockdown again. Probably not for COVID, but who knows when the next disaster will strick.

Aren't university jobs very badly paid?

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