It’s been the strangest of years. I’ve never been better off although I actually took a temp pay cut and was worried about my job security for a bit.
Got into some new hobbies in Taiwan that I simply didn’t have time to pursue and ticked off a lot of places I’d not really managed to visit before e.g. boat trip to Matsu islands. So it has been far from wasted.
Really want to see my family back in the homeland , haven’t been in almost two years already. Had some long term plans that I’ve had to put on a back burner cos of covid. Career is in a bit of stasis.
But overall very glad that I decided to stay in Taiwan a while longer last year before all this kicked off , for once the right decision .
Family are all doing well here they are hardly bothered by covid at all.
I’ll wait until the end of 2021 before I rate this one. Could be back to normal or way worse. We might say then that 2020 wasn’t actually that bad in comparison.
It’s very likely that I’ll never have to go through the hell of a daily commute ever again, so I would say that on a very personal and selfish level I’ve done pretty well. I can’t express how much that one thing has benefited me psychologically and mentally.
On the plus side, I think there might finally be more clarity around the world about what Beijing is up to—and also more clarity about what Taiwan can bring to the table.
For American families this is highly irregular. Even puritan families aren’t this controlling.
If you are making so much, means your family is under your care. They should be giving you a LOT of independence if you are bringing in that much money.
