I’m feeling a bit isolated working at my own company with very few employees and miss the corporate work environment. But I don’t want a full time job, just one where you can socialize with the locals, get involved in some office politics like trying to get a promotion or gossiping about random things, go to morale events and free company outings every once in a while, just the regular stuff a normal local person with a job deals with. Any suggestions on part time jobs that foreigners can apply to?
You sound like a time-traveling tourist from a utopian future in which nobody works, and people entertain themselves by experiencing what working people used to go through in the office back in the day.
I would just visit and socialize and not go to work (I have other job) as food server. I drank lots of coffee made friends with various coffee shop staff chit chat at cafes, found two girls wanted to travel and biz, now they help in me Lithuania and Estonia (in Lithuania also do the same, helps my background if different). Taiwan has so many cafes, pubs to socialize and not being local people are always curious about you.
He has a little more to learn about social etiquettes before he can get laid, but this little social experiment called “a normal job” might just be the perfect opportunity for him to learn.
When I worked at Walmart many greeters were old retired people who just needed to get out of the house. They didn’t need the money, but working basically got them out of the house and kept them alive.
I do not know if there are similar jobs in Taiwan.
You could also work as a barista, that’s a very social job.
Trash collectors, or at least ones that drives/rides on the back of musical garbage trucks, are government workers. This means it’s extremely hard to get into even for a Taiwanese, and unlike teachers foreigners won’t be able to get in due to not really needing foreigners to do the job.
Like 300 or more applicants for one position, many of whom are highly educated, and are weeded out by taking those insanely hard civil service exams.
I’m not sure the OP would be able to do it. There’s private trash collectors but I do not see them socialize much at all. All they do is drive around the city emptying dumpsters of their customers.
