Ok, so who should I contact? I mean I could try to email HR or apply through 104 but I’d hit the standard bureaucratic wall so if there is some way to bypass that it would be helpful.
I have a friend who worked on rail project in Taiwan as a PM and he thinks I should not try to be a PM. Apart from the fact that I have no PM experience and the only PM experience I have is taking an online course from University of Phoenix regarding PM, and there I learned about PMI certifications. I do not have it. He told me to get a job in the construction industry at their machine shop (they do a lot of maintenance so I would assume this means machining parts for construction equipment). He has a contact in Changhua who has forwarded my CV to their HR department.
I know the most effective way to find a job is networking. Applying is the least effective because 80% of all jobs are filled before they even make it to the advertising/job bank stage.
Or the whole idea of being typical is horseshit. There are tons of reasons that people have trouble managing social interactions, fitting in, or holding down a job that demands teamwork. Anxiety, abuse, OCD, crushing lack of self esteem. Strategies take time to learn and more time to commit to.
The only person I’m reading who seems to totally lack empathy is you.
“Just suck it up”? Fuck that.
I guess blocking two people in 20+ years on these boards isn’t bad. Don’t know how I’ll get along without you reading my mind, telling me what I can or cannot perceive, and informing me that my whole problem is just not working hard at things. But I’ll bumble along somehow.
I’m with finley here. Learning some social skills is an actionable advice for people like TL. He can analyze things very critically. If he applies the ability to his social interaction, he may be able to learn some social skills. It is hard, true, but not impossible if one is willing to learn consciously.
With some social skills, he doesn’t need to rely on his luck of coming across someone who understands and accepts him.
It is obvious that he should do some different things to change his current situation. Instead of counting what he cannot do or how he cannot do things, he should think what and how he can do something. Looking for a machinist job and announcing it here is a good thing.
Has it occurred to you that perhaps you have problems getting along with employers etc because you come across as abrasive and entitled? Perhaps you’re not. Perhaps you’re merely sad and frustrated. But that’s the way you come across, and that’s what matters.
I’m offering you some perspectives to consider. I’m describing what worked for me. You are free, of course, to decide that it isn’t going to work for you, and furthermore, that you have no interest in knowing anything else about me.
This is perhaps aimed more at @Taiwan_Luthiers than anybody else: heard of the employer lament: “bring me solutions, not problems”? Employers love low-maintenance people, whereas people who are endlessly creating extra issues - however minor - are a pain in the ass. People who whine and moan and bring their personal problems to work can poison the whole company, and they’ll be rejected at interview if they give even this slightest whiff of that.
A manager or director’s time is expensive, and if you can minimize the amount of work he has to expend on you, you’ll be hired and retained. Give them the impression that you’re focused 100% on solving your employer’s problems in an interview and you’re golden.
I’m not saying they couldn’t. They just seem not very interested in it.
I generally just write ‘he’ as the generic pronoun because I’m old, and it has only two letters in it.
Tell you what though, I reckon everyone should practice that Obama eyebrow-raising smirk thing that he does when he wants to look supercilious. It got him some good results.
If he’s a white guy, I found out as a white guy you really don’t need to bring much to the table. They just want a white monkey working for them to make their company look good.
I have none of that. Without that, I’m going to need to bring a LOT more to the table. Otherwise there are lots of Taiwanese who would be truly exceptional in terms of technical skills or machining background, who knows a little english. I think those would get the pick over me.
I tried applying for technical writing before, zero interests given. I think white skin matters a LOT more in Taiwan.
I sent them an email. I don’t know how else to apply otherwise. I do not expect to hear from them because Taiwanese never answers emails. Now if you give reference and tell me to visit their company and look for a certain person there, I might get somewhere.
What you’re missing is that you’re sabotaging yourself due to low self-esteem. Companies like Yomura need people who are on the same wavelength as their foreign customers and can communicate with them fluently. In the many years I’ve been working here I’ve never met anyone in the metal-working industry who is fluent in English, Mandarin and who understands metal-working. That’s you.
