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Fluency in two years? Forget about it.
If you don’t like your program, but you’ve already done a year, what’s another one? That being said, Taiwan has an overabundance of master’s and doctoral degree holders from overseas. Name a school, and chances are it has alumni here. Plus many are fluently bilingual. These are your competitors. You will be indistinguishable.
Your Mandarin means nothing unless you’re fluent. Keep it as a hobby. Not sure how the situation improves in the other countries you mentioned. What you need is some industry-relevant work experience more than anything else. Apart from finishing up your MS, more school is not the answer.
Try Singapore after you get your MS. There’s a good deal of expats there and also a good deal of entry positions as well. Hong Kong is another good shot.
You can improve your Chinese in both of those places and then try to take on China or Taiwan.
Keep in mind that the pay for technical jobs here in the 'wan sucks big time (worse than English buxiban teacher, hourly-wise).
An entry level techie would be lucky enough to be making 40k NT/mo (about $1300 USD/mo).
Think about this when you wanna come to Taiwan for work.
[quote=“tsukinodeynatsu”]Try Singapore after you get your MS. There’s a good deal of expats there and also a good deal of entry positions as well. Hong Kong is another good shot.
You can improve your Chinese in both of those places and then try to take on China or Taiwan.[/quote]
You won’t learn Chinese in HK or Singapore , only in class, thats it.
Taiwan is a good place for experienced talented materials engineers, but so are lots of places in Asia.
Finishing your masters will be a good idea if you are half way through it.
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[quote=“tsukinodeynatsu”]Try Singapore after you get your MS. There’s a good deal of expats there and also a good deal of entry positions as well. Hong Kong is another good shot.
You can improve your Chinese in both of those places and then try to take on China or Taiwan.[/quote]
Is it easy to find entry level jobs in Singapore/HK? I thought foreigners were generally required to have several years of solid work experience first
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