Age and job opportunites

[fineart]

Hi, guyes, just now Bert-Jie Lin mentioned about age was just a number. I quite agree with him. Very often some people don't look like old as their age generally should appear. Also, some people have more energy than those that are much younger than them. But, the fact is, in job market, as some members say, age really is a big matter, expecially to a woman.

 

Well, we are positive no matter what, but the difficulty is there, that if a woman is much older than her school peers, it is really much harder for her to find a decent job when she graduate with other peers, except she has accredited working background with the related field. I know there will be some arguments for this.

 

But many of our spouses have to study in US to earn a degree in order to find a job. Some jobs don't require a degree but those jobs generally pay peanuts money and many un-educated people are trying to get those jobs so the competition is fire-like even though it is not good payment.

 

Many of our chinese spouses are much older than their school mates and English is their second language, to their disadvantage. Then they have both age and accent disadvantage.

 

So how do you help your chinese spouses for job issues? Well some members might be rich and their spouses don't have to work. But to most of the members, if their spouses can work, that will be a big help to pay bills. Also, to some people, working can help them grow and realize self-identity.

 

Do you worry about your spouses' job? What is the way in solving this age and accent problems? Well, living in big cities is a advange of helping with job seeking because of more opportunites. What else?

Edited July 18, 2009 by fineart (see edit history)

[Randy W]

Chinatown proximity, or at least other Chinese