OK ! haha, too much sci-fi for me (but before I liked sci-fi cos play but grown out of it)
So if sanchong bus is so desperate for workers is this why their drivers are often rude on the road?
I seen the ad on their buses. You get 10,000nt for introducing a driver to them.
Because if driving a bus pays as much as you said how come people aren’t scrambling to be bus drivers?
I would do it if I could figure out how to get a cdl
Not every person is motivated SOLELY by money. I can leave right now and make a good enough living in Canada too. I like Taiwan so I stay.
A lot of people prefer office work so you have a supply. Every Chinese person I met in Canada took business/econ/accounting. If everyone is clamouring for the same jobs, the pressure on prices goes down as they undercut each other. If there are many companies trying to sell you the same product, they’re gonna undercut their prices. It’s the same reason why they pay 6 figures to take a trade in Canada. Skilled trades are PHYSICAL hard work, yes, but don’t need a degree. People don’t want to get their hands dirty.
You live in a country where people LITERALLY try to lighten their skin cause they scoff at blue collar labourers tasks think that dark skin is low class.
If the company can pick from hundreds of candidates, they’re gonna pick the best value for their money…The same way you do when you go shopping.
Unions aren’t socialist. They’re a capitalist creation, right wing politicians and short sighted business owners have brainwashed the public into thinking unions are socialist. Unions are companies that literally sell labour. Communist command economies are nothing but monopolies.
A product is only worth what people are willing to pay for it.
Labour is a product. If the socalled styrofoam Iron law was a thing, then we’d see deflation in product pricing as well. Not the case.
If people scramble for a position, then the bus company will feel emboldened to find the best deal as it becomes a buyer’s market. Supply increases and prices go down.
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I never wanted office work. I hated office culture and I am not a people person. The reason why I like machining is because it really fits the kind of stuff I like to do. But I’m not getting the impression it’s a profession that pays well in taiwan.
Because back in the states they kept saying how it paid several times minimum wage but not here.
That and I don’t get the impression that there’s a shortage of machinists in taiwan at all.
There you go. You answered your question.
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That’s something you got right, they all started out late 80’s.
Sorry this is no true, there are foreigner companies here, and I never saw a wife dictates how much I should earn.
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That’s why in Taiwan at 40 degrees in a sunny day you have still seen people covering their entire body and of course with umbrellas.
In the west if your with white skin in summer does not turn brown your skin is that you do not have money for vacations and vacations in the west is usually an indication to go to the beach and sunbathe, lol
They have got to be retiring by now. Plus there have been advances in machining, stuff that weren’t available back in the 80s.
We don’t have 100% capitalism. We have mixed economies. Nothing is pure capitalism.
This is a particularly insensitive and bigoted thing to say.
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and will try take care of their many kids?
The go to for this in Taiwan is to open your own little coffee shop and then call yourself a master and not speak to your customers except to tell them what they should be drinking 
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There’s a major shortage, you see ads everywhere in the hinterland.
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For bus drivers, not machinists?
Machinists…Skilled operators, general operatives . You should go outside Taipei you will see ads everywhere.
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If you are serious, check our the Taiwan Salary Increases Thread.
Companies like Hiwin are bleeding for machine operators. You could be making $2.1KUS a month.
If you’re just on a self-loathing kick, then go on.
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You haven’t figured out the game here yet. I know people with millions USD in bank CD working for 70k nt per month for IT company, others who even make no money in their Mei er Mei breakfast store, man I got even entrepreneurs friends who just keep a losing money company just to say to the family they are white collar employees or they have their own business. They are all rich Taiwanese folks with several real estate and loads of free cash in the bank. Guess why they are in these endeavors? hint: Chinese character 2 words
And for the normal folks, have you seen the school system here? Kids are forced to study from morning to night non stop. When they become adults they have no hard physical experience. Not many of them will want to be in strenuous jobs if by working at 7-11 they can still buy their iPhones and AirPods meanwhile living with their parents.
Parents have called my wife to complain about their child’s boss, say the company’s “fengshui” did not suit their child, the company was too far from their home, etc. She expecially loved the parents who bitterly complained about a guy’s boss…after the guy was caught up in all sorts of trouble in China…they simply had to say he would not have done all of those things if their son did not have so much pressure from work.
Oh…the stores are endless…
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Yea because they get told that if they study nonstop, they will pass the civil service exam and somehow become the advisor to the president or something of that nature. At least has been for 800 years.
I don’t know what you mean by the 2 words… do you mean 洗錢?
Because I’m fine being an entrepreneur if I could make even 30,000nt a month doing guitar work it would be perfect. But last time I had any significant guitar related revenue was in december. There has not been any since.
But I guess some other Taiwanese can just plop down 2 million NT to open a coffee shop that nobody goes to, while I can’t even scrape enough cash together to buy a CNC machine. I’m pretty sure 7-11 or office jobs won’t pay enough to open a business. Maybe enough to buy iphones, but not much more.
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