Is it wrong to go abroad to work just to earn money?

If workers decide to go abroad to work only to earn money, they will easily choose the "illegal" path, without paperwork, freely choosing jobs... without thinking about the dangers they will face.

Thinking only about money will make it difficult to develop

According to Mr. Le Long Son, General Director of ESUHAI Group, a large number of workers choose to work abroad illegally because they think that working abroad is to earn money, and the more money they can earn, the faster the better.

Mr. Son assessed: "If you think of working abroad as earning how much money, spending how much and earning how much like "buying and selling", it will be very difficult to develop a long-term future."

Going abroad to work is not only to earn money but also an opportunity to learn foreign languages, learn skills...

As for making money, we must compare working abroad under a formal program, signed between two governments, with the supervision of functional departments, with the choice of working domestically.

Mr. Son analyzed: "In Vietnam, after 3 years of working, how much will an ordinary worker with a high school diploma save each month? If they go to Japan, work hard, and spend frugally, how much will they earn?"

Most interns who work in Japan share that after 3 years of working, they have saved 500-700 million VND. Some people who work overtime can save even more. Many people have saved up to a billion VND after 5 years of working.

"In Vietnam, it is not easy for students who have just finished high school to find a job that allows them to save 500-700 million VND after 3 years of work. Even university graduates with good academic records cannot easily save that amount of money after 3 years," said Mr. Son.

According to Mr. Le Long Son, that is not a promotional number but is calculated from reality based on the basic salary of interns and the cost of living in Japan.

Even if the yen depreciates, the basic salary of interns in Japan is still 24-35 million VND. If you live a basic life and spend little, you can save at least 150 million VND per year.

He emphasized: "Before going, we train and orient them very carefully, depending on their goals of how much they want to save, how they live, how they spend, how they save... As for cases where they want to earn many times more, we don't talk about it. To do that, they have to make trade-offs, choose risky paths, like the story "Eat star fruit, pay gold"!".

Before going abroad, workers need to be equipped with foreign languages ​​and skills, and have a clear mindset.

Go abroad to work with the mindset of studying

The General Director of ESUHAI Group believes that many people do not need to go abroad to earn a lot of money because they have the ability, good skills, expertise, and are fluent in foreign languages...

Meanwhile, many people do not have the above abilities but want to have a lot of money so they choose to work abroad. At this time, they only focus on making money without thinking about what they can learn from the trip abroad.

When going abroad, their only goal is to earn a lot of money and have fun on the weekends, so they don't improve their foreign languages, work skills, or expand their social relationships... to build a foundation for their career when they return home.

When they return home, they continue to look for a high-paying job. If they don't get it, they are disappointed. If they are not capable of being their own boss, they refuse to work for a low-paying job.

He said: "Sending workers abroad to work without providing them with knowledge, orientation for development thinking, and the right path will only take them 5 years to earn 1 billion VND and then return home to build a house. But what will the workers do after that?"

According to Mr. Son, the issue of working abroad after graduation needs attention, because when returning home, if workers do not accumulate knowledge, experience, foreign languages, and are old, they will have a hard time competing in the domestic labor market.

Going abroad to work must bring with it the mindset of learning and improving one's own value.

It is different for those who are trained, oriented in thinking, trained in working style and skills before going abroad to work. On weekends, they go to exchange with Japanese people to learn Japanese, learn working skills, learn business methods, techniques in production, services... so that when they return home, they can develop their careers.

"They are equipped with a foreign language foundation and a mindset for starting a business in the future. They will calculate how much money they will earn over the years and what value they will add to themselves. Many of them start out by going to learn a trade, and when they return, they open their own businesses and production facilities to become their own boss," Mr. Son explained.

Go to work, come back to be the boss

According to Mr. Le Long Son, going abroad to work is to work for a salary, but not just to earn money, but must be determined from the beginning to go to learn. Only then, when the worker returns, can he be the boss.

He said: "When you go to work, if you are active, communicative, and have good skills, your manager will evaluate you well and see that you are capable, then they will assign you difficult tasks and you will learn new skills. But if you go there and are sluggish and unwilling to communicate, they will only assign you simple, repetitive manual work, and you will not learn any skills. Because who would trust you to assign difficult tasks or teach a skill to someone who does not know the language, is afraid of communication, and is not active?"

Only capable workers with good language skills are assigned complex tasks and given the opportunity to learn additional skills.

Mr. Son said that interns trained by the company and sent to Japan to work, in addition to saving money, the most important goal is to learn experience, skills, foreign languages, working methods...

Former interns who meet the required foreign language and skill levels when returning home will be introduced by Esuworks (a member company of ESUHAI Group) to Japanese companies in Vietnam to work according to their expertise, with the aim of becoming managers.

Among the nearly 10,000 former Esuhai interns who have returned to their home countries, many have achieved Japanese proficiency at N2 or even N1 (the most difficult level). Such people are now working as managers at large Japanese companies in Vietnam or starting their own businesses.

"Families with a lot of money, why do they spend billions of dong to send their children to study abroad? To learn the language. But if I don't have the conditions, I can go under a labor contract, as an intern... If I plan to go to study from the beginning, I don't need to spend billions of dong, but I can still bring money back, still learn the language, still learn professional skills, and how to do business to start a career," Mr. Le Long Son shared.

Before going abroad, workers need to be well equipped with skills and foreign languages ​​as a basis for continuing to study while working in a foreign country.

According to the General Director of ESUHAI Group, if workers are properly oriented from the beginning before going to work abroad, there will be no problem of returning home unemployed because they do not know what to do. They have already determined their future development path.

When seeing future results, workers will realize that following the official path brings many times greater benefits than working illegally, gradually contributing to limiting the dangerous and consequential situation of working illegally abroad.

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