What kind of experience is it to do an interesting job abroad?

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I majored in hotel management in Las Vegas. Yes, it's a big Las Vegas ... Our professional China people are super hardworking, working as interns and opening their own restaurants whenever they have the chance. Because many China tourists, hotels, casinos and restaurants need people who can speak Chinese, we are still good at finding jobs, so we always hear a lot of wonderful and interesting work-related things ~

There are many international exhibitions in Las Vegas. Representatives from China companies who come to participate in the exhibitions will recruit local college students as temporary translators and tour guides, and usually go to buy buy to buy, eat, gamble and gamble after the exhibitions. Occasionally, there will be clients with strong curiosity ~

My classmate A will take several bosses to watch the undressing dance at the request ...

My classmate B will accompany the clients to watch the sex live show…… ... that is, she will go into many small rooms to perform ...

My classmate C, a Chinese, has been pimping in Vegas for several years and has all kinds of materials. Er, then one day he was lovelorn, so he called the most expensive one in his hand ... The experience was said to be quite good.

C's mother was a casino dealer. Later, she met her boyfriend at the poker table, so she stopped being a dealer. Usually, she went to play slot machines with her boyfriend to earn spare money. C always had discounts for major hotels given by her mother, and I didn't envy (cross it out). C mom doesn't have to pay for the cruise, but she works as a dealer on the cruise for a day or two and plays casually the rest of the time. I really don't envy (cross out).

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I have the cheek to say my own words:

We required 2 hours of internship and 1, hours of work experience after graduation. At that time, I applied for a project to practice in a resort hotel in Saipan for half a year, and the salary was extremely low. My classmates said you were stupid. You were lonely and tired when you went to that place alone for so long. I hesitated and went anyway ~

The internship is basically ordering single-ended dishes and cutting vegetables. It's nothing special, but it's worth mentioning that there is a job in the hotel called clubmate, with a cool name! Both men and women can swim, be strong, have the qualification of lifeguard, and love to communicate with others. Every year, the hotel will also invite interns from South Korea and the United States to be clubmate.

clubmate does a lot of things, such as hanging out at the seaside, interacting with guests in the water park, teaching guests surfing, teaching guests tennis, teaching guests rock climbing, chatting with guests, taking pictures, playing with children, doing talent shows, etc ... In fact, most of the time, just quietly basking in the sun and flirting with guests ...

The above-mentioned Club Mate, a Korean sister who stole from next door, An American sister with her roommate

Before I started my internship, because there were too many one-night stands between clubmate and hotel guests, the hotel had to put a policy that clubmate would be expelled once it was found in the hotel room ...

However, I heard that American colleague A was pinched by a Russian female guest with a child in the swimming pool ... (Colleague A is really handsome

Thank you for the last photo ↓

And I ... They have catering interns like me, interns at the marketing front desk, and lively and enthusiastic clubmate.

for the whole half year, I was called by energetic people to snorkel in the nearby managaha island after work, called to hike in the strange mountain, called to have a picnic on the beach, called to climb trees, called to see the stars, called to drink, and didn't know what my house was ...

When I went to a Chinese restaurant together, I felt safe when I ordered (foggy). In fact, it was all jiaozi, jiaozi and jiaozi < Interns can only get an hour's note of wifi code every day, so they have experienced a life in which computers are basically useless for half a year. QAQ

Without access to the Internet, our rooms are usually half open, which is convenient for us to visit each other, so we often rush in at night ... (The girl with long hair in the picture below is not me) Say something without nutrition, play some games with no nutrition, drink some beer and eat snacks to spend a miserable night-

= Because the place is barren. Because the place is barren, everyone chipped in a few dollars and went downstairs to buy a big box of ice cream and biscuits at the party, and they were filled with happy smiles.

Not to mention having time to go to this restaurant where the lunch steak set is only ten dollars!

Although I usually eat a bowl of instant noodles with my Korean sister at night and go downstairs to play table tennis or something ...

During my internship, I spent a month mixing wine at the bar. It was also because the hotel was really casual, and my staff took me to the bar to play by myself every time, leaving me to face a cabinet of wine and guests.

So that month, I got drunk with countless guests, because I mixed an iced tea from Long Island and waited for me to pour it. I found that the glass was . full. At that time, several male clubmate liked to invite female hotel guests to drink →_→

One night, a Korean couple came. The male asked for iced tea from Long Island, and then after a few sips, he weakly asked me if I could add some coke ...

Although my work in catering practice was not rich enough compared with clubmate, I often saw many interesting things, such as children from all over the world playing and fighting (by mistake). All kinds of swimsuit beauties ~ ~ ~ (big mistake)

Because the English name is Hannah, there are always Korean guests who think I am Korean at first, and some guests are very excited to point to my daughter and tell me that my daughter's name is HANA! After learning that I'm not Korean, Korean guests thought I was a local (because I'm black ...), and they were polite to me and spoke English carefully, so that I once thought my English was internationalized, and finally found myself with a Korean accent. =

By the way, there is no habit of tipping in Korea. My Korean colleagues all complain that they are swayed by Korean guests and don't tip. However, many Korean guests will struggle whether to tip when they find out that I am not Korean, and then some will give one or two dollars .................................................................................................. Patting me on the shoulder immediately made me feel that I was awarded a medal ~ and I shook hands with me when I left and secretly gave me a dollar bill ~ (Later, my Korean colleague explained that lobbyists thought that if they gave tips in public, they would be taken away by the manager. I was moved by the fans who had to give them to me privately! )

Except for a few big hotels, Saipan actually lags behind the countryside, and the food is terrible. We interns even have only one hour to surf the Internet every day, and the low education level of the local people on the island is somewhat indescribable, but no matter how we think about it afterwards, we all think that the experience is too interesting. I learned a lot at work, went to many unknown small places on the island, lived with a group of internship colleagues full of chicken blood, and understood a lot of Korean alive!

Like many restaurant employees, they made mistakes and were scolded to hide in the toilet and cry, but they were comforted by other intern girls and comforted them.

I also found out that clubmate, an American intern, secretly saved up a poor salary, and after half a year of internship, she saved thousands of dollars to visit Asian countries.

I have also seen the frictions among interns from different countries because of their different cultural personalities, and this experience has become the driving force for later anthropology.

Korean interns account for the majority and last for one year. As long as interns leave, they will have a "surprise" the night before they leave. A group of people rush in with cake gifts for a farewell party, which is super sensational. QAQ

I went to South Korea and visited them again, and stayed at my favorite Korean sister's house for two days ~ Although their prejudice against China was too weak, they often asked. However, prejudice has not affected their attitude towards people. I hope that the educational media can help reduce prejudice (digression)

Paradoxically, after I left, the person who chose to practice in Saipan from my university was also a China. In the few conversations with him, he complained that the hotel environment was not good and he didn't understand the English of the Korean interns. He didn't care about the goodwill of the interns and the beaches and stars that he could enjoy effortlessly.

Although I was completely relieved after working for half a year at that time, thinking that I finally didn't have to carry dishes, I feel very warm in a small place like Saipan now.

I am familiar with the only cinema on the island, the nightclub, which only opens on weekends. I know where to find the cheapest steak, Japanese food and pizza. I know how to go where to see the stars all over the sky and where to swim in the quietest place. I know China people who rent cars and batteries across from the hotel, China sisters in massage shops and waiters in Chinese restaurants. In the restaurant, I listened to my Filipino colleagues telling me that China people would save money, and I listened to her love story with her boyfriend of the US Navy at the home of a beautiful Nepalese colleague (later she married to the United States), and I listened to local colleagues telling me that their brothers and sisters had been fooling around because there were too few people on the island before, and their casual attitude towards sex always shattered my three views ... So Saipan doesn't look like a tourist attraction island with sea and beach to me, but rather like an isolated small village, looking at foreign countries with curiosity and confidence.

So the experience is that boring jobs can be interesting in some people's eyes, and interesting jobs can be boring in some people's eyes.

I also regret that I didn't learn sailing and surfing for free when I was an employee, and I could learn diving and falling at half price!

= = = = = = = = = = = = Many people ask about this kind of job application, and put a few links, but the work visa is not very clear. It will be more convenient for people who are studying abroad and have visas. If they are in China, they will have the opportunity to ask more. I have seen many China employees coming directly from China in Huangshi National Park, and Disney can do the same. Of course, if you care too much about salary, you will generally not feel happy ...

Everyone's standards for interesting jobs and good jobs are actually different, and they can't be the same. They just think that these standards are unified under the influence of social culture and worry too much.

Among our internship partners, an American guy is 27 years old and still doing what many people in China regard as "unfair and unstable". As a graduate of Purdue University with a double degree in design photography, he taught sailing at a scenic spot in the United States for a year before going to Saipan to be a clubmate, and then returned to the United States and went to another national park. He taught us to tie a solid knot and play a variety of outdoor sports, which made everyone think his work was cool. And colleague A above, who finished clubmate with another Canadian gay friends, went back to study PhD. My best Korean friend is similar to me. After returning to Korea, he suddenly wanted to change his major, so he learned network design from scratch and now works in a magazine. I have just finished my master's degree in anthropology, and when I talk to others about this internship, I am often said that it is a pity that this work experience in the hotel has not helped your current academic work, and you have wasted another half year. However, for us, this job seemed very tiring and unworthy at that time. Later, it was more or less helpful to work, study and mentality. Just like being a volunteer, if we didn't volunteer because we felt that we had no money at that time, it would be too late to have anything urgent on our resume ...

But if we care too much about how much money a job has and whether it will directly help our future career, we will unconsciously be bound by this value. (Besides, it's like chicken soup. Stop.