VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam proves to be an ideal labor market
for foreigners, which needs foreign management technology and ready to pay high
to foreign qualified personnel.
In the thoughts of many
Vietnamese people, westerners come to Vietnam to run their business projects in
the country, or work for big foreign conglomerates that set up representative
offices or branches there.
However, recently, a lot of
westerners leave their developed economies to come to Vietnam, a developing
country, where they work as hired workers for Vietnamese bosses.
Alan, French nationality, is the
Director of a company that distributes French wine in Vietnam. Alan has been
living in Vietnam for seven years and he has married a Vietnamese girl. He has
deep knowledge about the business environment here and the business culture of
Vietnamese people
However, since the business has
been unsatisfactory, Alan has decided to take the job at a taxi firm to earn
money.
Alan’s wine distribution company
now has two office workers, three workers in charge of delivering goods.
Putting the business under the management of the wife, who is also the
accountant of the company, Alan has taken a job as a managing director for M. Company
to earn money.
Ha, the Vietnamese wife of Alan
said that Alan’s biggest concern is that he still cannot buy a house in
Vietnam.
“He is originally Vietnamese,
therefore, he understands the Vietnamese culture and Vietnamese people, who
always want to live in their own homes. He wants to buy a house, so that I can
feel more secure and happier,” Ha said.
Alan’s dream of buying a house is
nearly to come true. Working as a manager, he can earn 120 million dong a
month, a high income level in Vietnam, which makes his plan within reach.
Peter, British nationality, is
now running an English center in Cau Giay district. However, he still thinks
that he needs to earn more money. Therefore, he has been working as a teacher
to get extra income which he gives to his wife, a graduate of the Hanoi Foreign
Language University, who is now a housewife.
Peter said his wife can stay at
home as a housewife, or go working if she wants. However, he needs to act as
the breadwinner of the family. He cannot understand why Vietnamese men like
going out to bars to drink after the working hours instead of returning home.
As a manager of the English
center, Peter regularly has to go to parties to meet partners. However, he
always reminds himself about the wife and the child waiting for him at home.
Therefore, he always tries to leave the parties soon, so that he can take some
housework to help the wife.
Unlike Alan and Peter, Reiko, a
Japanese person is 65 years old now. However, he is still working hard for a
company, which is a satellite for Yamaha company in Soc Son district in Hanoi.
Khanh, an officer of Reiko, has
noted that Japanese people’s working capability is very resistant, while very
few Japanese men actually stop working at the retired age. They still go
working to get money to feed their families. Especially, Japanese people like
working in Vietnam, where they can earn much money but do not have to spend
much money because of the low subsistence allowances.
“The pension I get in Japan is
not high enough to ensure a comfortable life for us. I like working. A life
without work proves to be very boring,” he said.
Dung Ha
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