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

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I studied hotel management in Las Vegas as an undergraduate. That's right, this is a big Las Vegas ... Our professional China people are super hardworking, and they practice and open their own restaurants whenever they have the chance. Because many tourists, hotels, casinos and restaurants in China need people who can speak Chinese, it is easier for us to find jobs, so we always hear a lot of wonderful and fun work-related things ~

There are many international exhibitions in Las Vegas. Representatives from China companies will recruit local college students as temporary translators and tour guides. Generally, after the exhibition, they will go to buy buy to buy, eat and gamble, and occasionally there will be curious customers ~

My classmate A took several bosses to see striptease at the request. ...

Classmate B, watch live sex shows with clients ... that is, go into many small rooms to perform. ...

Classmate C, from China, has been a pimp in Vegas for several years, and he has all kinds of information. Well, then one day he was lovelorn, so he called the most expensive ... experience, which is said to be quite good.

C's mother is a casino banker. Later, she met her boyfriend at the poker table, so she stopped being a dealer. Usually, she plays slot machines with her boyfriend to earn change. C always has coupons for major hotels given to him by her mother, which I don't envy at all. Mother C doesn't have to pay for the cruise. She just works as a dealer on the cruise for a day or two and plays around the rest of the time. I really don't envy (cross out).

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Have the cheek to say myself:

Our undergraduate graduation needs 200 hours of internship and 65,438+0,000 hours of work experience. At that time, I applied for a six-month internship in a resort hotel in Saipan. The salary is extremely low, including round-trip air tickets, so I was hired alone (probably because no one really wanted to go), and there were no China employees in the hotel. My classmates said that you were stupid, lonely and tired when you went to that place alone for so long, so I hesitated and went anyway ~

The basic practice is to order a single dish and cut it. Nothing special, but it is worth mentioning that there is a job in the hotel called clubmate, and its name is cool. Both men and women can swim, have strong bodies, are qualified as lifeguards and love to communicate with others. The hotel also invites interns from South Korea and the United States to be clubmate every year.

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

It stole the clubmate next door from me, a Korean girl, an American girl and her roommate.

Before I started my internship, because there were too many one-night stands between my teammates and hotel guests, the hotel had to put a policy that if I found my teammates in the hotel room, I would be fired …

However, I still 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, the last photo ↓

And I ... as the only China resident, I live on the first floor with 10 Korean, American and Canadian interns. They have catering interns like me, interns at the marketing front desk, and lively and enthusiastic clubmate.

For half a year, after work, I was called by energetic people to snorkel in the nearby Managaha Island, hike in the strange mountain, have a picnic on the beach, climb trees, watch the stars and drink. I don't know what the house is. ...

Go to a Chinese restaurant together and feel safe when ordering (fog). In fact, they all ended up in jiaozi, jiaozi and jiaozi.

Because Saipan's Internet access is very expensive, interns can only get an hour's notebook wifi code every day, so they have experienced a life in which computers are basically useless for half a year, QAQ.

Without 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, not me) Say something without nutrition, play some games without nutrition, drink some beer, eat some snacks and spend that miserable night-

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

Not to mention, it only costs ten yuan to go to this restaurant for lunch and steak set meal!

Although I usually go downstairs to play table tennis and have a bowl of instant noodles with Korean girls after work at night. ...

I bartered in a bar for a month during my internship. It is also because the hotel is really casual. The staff who took me there threw me at the bar every time, making me face a cupboard full of wine and guests.

So that month, I was drunk with countless guests, because I made a cup of Long Island iced tea. When I finished pouring ice cubes and base wine to pour coke, I found that the cup was already 0.0. At that time, several male teammates liked to treat female hotel guests to drinks → _→

One night, a Korean couple came. The man ordered long island iced tea, then took a few sips and asked me if I could add some coke …

Although compared with clubmate, the work content of my catering internship is not rich enough, I can often see many interesting things, such as children playing and fighting in various countries (by mistake) and all kinds of swimsuit beauties ~ ~ ~ (by 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 am not Korean, Korean guests think I am a local (because I am black ...), and they are very polite to me and speak English seriously, 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 colleague complained that he was fooled by Korean guests and didn't tip. However, when many Korean guests find that I am not Korean, they will struggle whether to tip or not, and then some will give a dollar or two. I don't think it's easy. ................................................................................................ patted me on the shoulder and immediately made me feel that I was awarded a medal ~ and when I left, I shook hands with me and secretly gave me a dollar bill ~ (Later, my Korean colleague explained that the guest thought that tipping in public would be taken away by the manager. I am very touched that fans have to give it to me privately! )

In fact, except for a few big hotels, Saipan is backward in the countryside and eats badly. We interns even have only one hour to surf the Internet every day. The low education level of the local people on the island is somewhat indescribable, but no matter what we think afterwards, we all think that the experience is so interesting. I learned a lot at work, went to many unknown small places on the island, lived with a group of intern colleagues covered in chicken blood, and learned a lot of Korean alive!

Like many catering employees, they were scolded for hiding in the toilet and crying when they made mistakes, but they were comforted by other internship girls.

I also found that clubmate, who was internship in the United States, secretly put together poor wages, and saved thousands of dollars to play in Asian countries after half a year of internship.

I have also seen the friction caused by cultural differences among interns from all over the world, and this experience became the driving force of anthropology later.

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

I, a person who doesn't like Korea very much, visited them in Korea again and stayed at my favorite Korean sister's house for two days ~ Although their prejudice against China is too weak to spit out, they often ask me questions about vomiting blood, but prejudice does not affect their attitude towards people. I hope the educational media can help reduce prejudice (digression).

Paradoxically, after I left, the intern selected from my university to Saipan was also from China. In a few conversations with him, he complained about the bad hotel environment, didn't understand the English of Korean interns, didn't care about the goodwill of interns, and didn't care about the beaches and stars he could enjoy effortlessly.

Although I was completely relieved after working for half a year, I thought that I finally didn't have to carry plates. Now it is still very warm to think about a small place like Saipan.

I am familiar with the only cinema and nightclub on the island, which only opens on weekends. I know where I can find the cheapest steak, Japanese food and pizza. I know how to see the stars and swim in the quietest place. I know China people who rent cars and batteries across from the hotel, China sister from the massage shop, and the waiter from the Chinese restaurant. In the restaurant, I heard my Filipino colleagues tell me that China people would save money. I heard 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). I heard local colleagues tell 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 seems to me not like a tourist resort island with sea and beaches, but more like a small isolated village.

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

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

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Many people ask about this kind of job application and put a few links, but the work visa is not very clear. It is more convenient for people with visas to study abroad. If they were in China, they would have a chance to ask more questions. I have met many China employees directly from China in Yellowstone National Park, and Disney can do the same. Of course, if you care too much about your salary, you will generally not feel happy …

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

One of our internship partners is an American boy, 27 years old, who is still doing many things that China people think are "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 as a golf friend, and then returned to the United States and went to another national park. He taught us to tie knots and play all kinds of outdoor sports, which made everyone think his works were cool. Colleague A above, on the other hand, ended clubmate with another gay Canadian friend and went back to study for a PhD. My best Korean friend is similar to me. After returning to Korea, I suddenly wanted to change my major, so I studied network design from scratch and now I work in a magazine. I just finished my master's degree in anthropology and told others about this internship. It is often said that it is a pity that this work experience in the hotel has not helped your academic work now, and you have wasted half a year. However, for us, this job seemed very tiring at that time and it was not worth it. Later, it was more or less helpful to work, study and mentality, just like volunteering. If we felt that we had no money and didn't volunteer, it would be too late to have anything urgent on our resume. ...

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