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Time-stamp: <2010-07-13 20:21:27 JosephZhang>

A call from job hunter

A call

Today, When I partaking my supper, I got a call.

This call was called from a job hunter. I have received many hunter’s calls. But this is different.

As usual, he asked my technologies, best programming languages, his interest, such as perl and python. I said I just interested in python and writted some small program, so python level is not professional.

Then, he asked whether I have small system administrator experience. I said no and then added that maybe working as administrator got few money. No, he said, 30k per month, at least.

And as usual, he asked how about my English, written and spoken, I said not too good.

Although I read english document, blog and news everyday, but I can’t let out my thought fluently, and this is the biggest problem of Chinese programmer too.

The hunter shocked me with such words, “In China, Good Programmers are everywhere, but they CANNOT speak out.” This is obvious scene on which I have never taken serious before.

Chinese programmer

Yes, being a good programmer is not difficult to Chinese, ’cause Chinese people are clever. They can learn well everything foreigner think hard to learn.

But they cannot learn english well. People spent almost 20 years, from kintergarten to college ,to learn english, but they can’t speak out.

I don’t know why.

English—Doing thing right is half way to success.

I started an english accent training course half month ago, I will finish this course in half years. Half month’s study make me believe oral english is not difficult, and not impossible.

Doing thing right is half way to success.