Reading Time: 2 minutes I hope everyone had a happy new year and everything worked out as expected. I wish things always happen as we expected. But unfortunately reality sometimes caught us off guard. From my experience in computer world I know all kinds of things (good or bad) can happen. The infamous Windows “blue screen” problem. A friend
Reading Time: < 1 minute A good friend of mine recently went back to China permanently after spending more than 4 years in the States. He told me some interesting (good or bad) experience in a bank. First, he was very impressed by the touch screen in the bank, which is good. As a side note, last summer when I
Reading Time: < 1 minute Software development jobs are no longer glamorous or sexy these days. The industry has recovered from the dot com crash but the outsourcing pressure is putting a lid on the salary of programmers in the US and other western countries. Another thing is development job itself could be boring and repetitive. Considering all these factors,
Reading Time: < 1 minute Year 2006 is around the corner. For people back home in China they are already in 2006. We are still 3 hours away. There will be some celebrations in major cities such as New York Time Square, Las Vegas, etc. And there will be Rose Parade in Pasadena (LA) tomorrow. I don’t know about how
Reading Time: < 1 minute The working days between Xmas and New Year are usually slow. By “slow” I mean not many people will show up and there are not many business activites. I was surprised to see quite a few people showed up this week. Like poor me they ran out of their vacation days. One of my neighbour
Reading Time: < 1 minute I read this article from wenxuecity a while ago. Being a programmer for more than 5 years in the US, I shared the author’s view to great extent. I have made the mistakes he/she mentioned below (see bold text). I think the principle could be applied to other careers as well. The article link is
Reading Time: < 1 minute The following is I saw from haiguinet, thanks to jlink for writing this post. Not surprisingly management and business skills are most valuable. ================================================== 再接再励： 在华外派，海龟 人员2005收入分析： 谢谢大家的鼓励。 看来大家兴趣不小。 16页的原点是零。每隔100，000USD。所以，TOP EXECUTIVE，港台EXPAT因为长期在 大陆经营，又没有文化，语言隔阂，所以以340，000USD拔下头筹。 跟在后面的310，000USD是除了忠诚度，和耍嘴皮外一无用处的老外。人家要自己人， 也是可以理解的。 (这两种人最容易被有经验的RETUNEE干掉。) 海龟混到第一把交椅的人在此落到最后面， 26，7万美元左右。同道相比，低是低 了一点，但比起留在国外赚那点毛钱还是人间天上了。(不知这数字真实性如何。姑 妄听之吧。) 注意，130个样本中TOP EXECUTIVE没有LOCAL HIRE。说明，整体上来说，LOCAL还是 没有成长起来，突破玻璃天花板。大体上还只能做到DIRECTOR一级(100，000USD) MANAGER位置上，海龟大有可为。几乎是处于LOCAL与WESTERNER之间。趋势是十分明 显的，JLINK称之 “外驱鞑虏，内压中土”。EXPAT (12万)，与国内“返聘”的老 外(9万)，迟早要被CHINESE所代替；而本土经理人与海龟，虽然都是CHINESE，也就 是万把块钱的DELTA，海龟毕竟有些质量和诚信保证。所以我们看到的是越来越多的 海龟，有经验的海龟！飞速进入中层。也许，明天的TOP EXECUTIVE就出在这批人中。 (海归论坛 www.haiguinet.com) 至于回国想做技术的(SPECIALIST)，可以看出这是没有前途的DEADEND JOB。2-3万
Reading Time: 2 minutes I got chance to watch some NBA games lately. I am not a big NBA fan because I don’t have cable at home and I felt it takes too much time (usually 2.5 hrs) to watch a game. I told my friends who are big NBA (Yao Ming) fans that I only need to watch
Reading Time: < 1 minute I got up this morning at 9 AM and was surprised to found out we had snow last night. Other than that, not too much excitement here in St. Louis. There are a few places open, notably Star Bucks and WalGreen (drug store). I can not go to my favorite Borders or St. Louis (Panera)
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