In this episode, I interview Caleb Shetland, an American now workingin Taipeias a firmware engineer. Listen to find out: - His experience learning Chinese at a US college - What approach he wishes he had used instead, to learn characters - When he realized that learning Mandarin would be useful for his engineering career - How he thinks Mandarin compares in difficulty versus other languages - His experience traveling overseas for the first time to Beijing - His experience as a foreign student at a Chinese campus - His struggletrying to find a job as an expat engineer in Taiwan - His initial experience working in an office environment in Taiwan - What it was like being the only foreigner in a large multi-national company - The benefit of being a foreign engineer in Taiwan - The demand for expats in the local tech industry - The importance of co-ops and internships