u/Lifeintheguo

This is like an episode of a British comedy.

To cut a long story short, I am a foreigner who works (legally) in China with a hobby.

Over the years of doing that hobby and attending trade shows I've been able to meet a lot of people and companies in this hobby space and have become an expert in the space.

I think now I'm ready to be able to offer my services as a consultant in the space. But I don't want to quit my day job.

The question is how to do it legally. I hit up Deepseek, and it suggested something I've never seen before, it suggested a foreigner can hold two work permits simultaneously.

One permit for a day job. And one permit the foreigner issues themselves via their own WFOE.

Firstly is this just bullshit AI hallucination?

Has anyone here set up a consultancy?

I've got the capital requirements, but do I need to rent an office? Consulting doesn't require an office, so it's a waste of money.

There was also a mention of two years work experience needed for the permit. But as I would be a new company, how would I get that?

I've seen quotes of $15k for agencies to help set up a WFOE. Is this just the "scam the laowai" price?

To cut a long story short, I am a foreigner who works in China with a hobby.

Over the years of doing that hobby and attending trade shows I've been able to meet a lot of people and companies in this hobby space.

I think now I'm ready to be able to offer my services as a consultant in the space. But I don't want to quit my day job.

The question is how to do it legally. I hit up Deepseek, and it suggested something I've never seen before, it suggested a foreigner can hold two work permits simultaneously.

One permit for a day job. And one permit the foreigner issues themselves via their own WFOE.

Firstly is this just bullshit AI hallucination?

Has anyone here set up a consultancy?

I've got the capital requirements, but do I need to rent an office? Consulting doesn't require an office, so it's a waste of money.

There was also a mention of two years work experience needed for the permir. But as I would be a new company, how would I get that?

I've seen quotes of $15k for agencies to help set up a WFOE. Is this just the "scam the laowai" price?

This is what I can't believe when I watch coffeezilla vids about Celsius giving 10%. Or STRC offering 11.5%.

The most boring investment ETFs or indexes that anyone can access are offering 10% a year.

MSCI world index is averaging 12% a year.

S&P500 has beat bitcoin over the last 5 years.

And ofc past success does not guarantee future success, but we have decades of data on this.

Historically ETFs and index funds gain 10% a year.

Historically crypto ponzis go to 0.

Do these countries get a 30 day buffer when their other visa expires?

Say for example your residence permit for work expired. Do you get 30 days visa free?

Basically the title. When you try and verify your number you can't receive the SMS.

To start the post off so we're all on the same page.

White British father, Chinese mother. Half white - Half chinese baby just born in China. Baby will be British but live in China till around middle school. We have given her a Chinese and English name. English name has the family name of the father and Chinese name has the family name of the mother. (We think this is a good way of splitting it up fairly)

Mixed race people of reddit. Tell me what your parents did that caused you problems so I can avoid them in the future.

The law seems to state: "Owning a knife longer than 15cm is prohibited and carrying a knife in public is strictly prohibited".

But this seems to be nonsense as you can type 剑 into taobao and order a wushu sword to your door. I have also seen many people practice in the park with them in public. These are blunt but they're still a knife.

I have also seen sharp traditionally made Chinese swords for sale in a shop in Hangzhou.

I am a Brit, but me and my wife had our baby in China.

All the nurses and nannies here are placing the baby on the side with back support and a blanket to sleep.

This seems to be ill advised according to American safe sleep practices.

Should this be ignored as just some American thing or what?

The main point seems to be stopping SIDS but looking around it seems SIDS is very rare in Asia and more common in American. In Japan they even cosleep with babies as the norm.

People keep placing our baby on its side to sleep. The doctors and nurses in the hospital and now the hired nanny. The baby also has loose covers.

I've been reading online that this is verboten and causes SIDs?

Are all the professionals around me doing the wrong thing?

My immediate thought to back sleeping is won't they choke when they spit up?

Bought this product a while ago, first time one side just stopped playing sound. Bose replaced them under warranty. Now they have broken again outside the warranty period.

I have tried the usual method of resetting by holding the button 30 seconds.

I tried downloading the app but the app cant see the earbuds.

What do I do?

This might be a stupid question but do babies just naturally pick up multiple languages without parents really "teaching" them?

Me and my Chinese wife just had a baby in China. I'm a native English speaker. And speaker of basic Chinese.

The baby will have a full Chinese environment because my wifes family doesn't speak English.

I will speak English with our baby, and my wife will speak English to me in front of her. But will speak just the two of them in Chinese.

Will the baby grow up fluent in both languages without extra effort?

Me and my wife also speak French and we'd like to throw that in too.

Had a baby recently and need to decide the best course of action to let them easily travel between UK and China as a dual citizen while China doesn't recognise.

Since China classes this as "nationality crisis" and doesn't make the child decide before 18, are they cool with two passports?

Leave China on UK passport, Leave UK on Chinese passport.

There is also something in UK called a "certificate of entitlement" that is electronically added to the Chinese passport. That means when it's scanned at the UK border it will show British citizen. There is nothing that the Chinese end could question because nothing goes in the passport.

This is an alternative to a British passport and someone with a British passport can't have one. The downside is that they dont have a British passport so couldn't go visa free to places like Europe. They'd be treated as Chinese.

Would this cause issue?

Child born to British father and Chinese mother.

Child registered at birth as Chinese nationality and gets a Chinese passport.

Child is also issued a British passport.

Everything I've read online says when flying from China to UK, the child should show the UK passport to the ticket desk and UK border force.

Then when flying to China from UK, the child shows the Chinese passport at the ticket desk and to Chinese border agents.

Thing is... the stamps won't match up. Isn't this a problem?

Shes already moved over to the fishing village. I just have no dialog option to ask. All I can do is tell her about the takeover and then she leaves.

>!Rolled a double 6 to dodge the second shot from the mercs. Still failed. What is this crap? Precarious world isn't internalized.!<

Does anyone have one of these? How do they work?

Currently working in China and the most popular SUV here is the BYD Leopard 5/7, a full electric vehicle with over 400hp and 0-60 in 4.5 seconds.

But how exactly does an electric car work off road? Is the electric motor bolted up to a standard part time 4x4 system with diff lockers?

Apparently there's two motors, is that one for each end?

I'll start:

Owning a horse.

Speaking a second language.

I teach ESL to a smart group of Grade 3s (9 years old). They are quite good at English and science, but are still 9 so there are limits to their understanding.

We've been asked to put some science in our classes, this has led to being asked a lot of questions in class where the student is unlikely to understand the answer. Either due to the level of English needed or they don't have the prerequisite knowledge.

So the problem isn't that I don't know the answers, it's just that the answers are only going to be understood by a very small percentage of the class.

For example a student might ask "How do scientists know how old a fossil is?" And then before I know it I'm trying to explain radiometric dating to a class full of 9 year olds.

"Teacher why do some insects have blue blood"? And then I'm trying to explain the difference between iron based hemoglobin and copper based hemocyanin. Just to be ask by the same student "Why is their blood not iron based"? To then be trying to explain why hemocyanin is evolutionary advantagous to some organisms. Before being asked another "Why?" Question. Sometimes these "Why?" questions go 4 or 5 levels deep because they don't know the prerequisite knowledge to understand my first answer.

How do you deal with it? Do you engage and give a detailed explanation or do you try and give a "kid answer"? like "Scientists know how old a fossil is because they're really smart!"

When I was at school teachers mainly brushed off these questions.