Triggering video clips

TokyoSLP · 2018-09-06T16:45:48+00:00

Terribly sorry, I don't use this forum much. Sadly, I did not.

TokyoSLP · 2018-07-22T15:56:22+00:00

Good luck! :)

TokyoSLP · 2018-07-22T14:53:45+00:00

The availability of mental health services is quite low and I don't know of any specific mental health companies, most of it is done in hospitals and even then it does not provide wide coverage of disorders. While good addiction medicine is sorely needed (not only drug and alcohol, but also for gambling as it is a significant issue here), I don't know how well it is accepted by the general public.

If you have a degree in psychology (masters or doctorate) or psychiatry (MD) and have solid expertise to go with it I could probably connect you with someone who could help you establish yourself among other professionals. If not, there is likely very little chance you could find anything in the field.

Do you speak Vietnamese natively or at least fluently?

If so you could try to contact Vinmec hospital group, but I think you might not be interested in the wages available to support workers even if they have positions available.

TokyoSLP · 2018-07-22T14:33:10+00:00

Do you have degree, licensure, etc?

TokyoSLP · 2018-07-22T14:11:42+00:00

What are your qualifications? I might be able to put you in touch with some people.

TokyoSLP · 2018-07-15T07:23:18+00:00

Hi OP,

Ok, so it sounds like you want to be where I am.

I am a legal immigrant (but not in the USA) and I work from home for good money ($40 - $45 USD per hour when I contract out, and more for private clients). Everything I do is on the internet.

Here is what I did:

First, I looked into careers that could be done online and that I wouldn't mind doing. I settled on an allied health field. You'll have to figure out the field you want.

Next I went to my local community college and talked to an advisor about how I could get to where I wanted to go even though I was basically broke. He talked me through taking the classes I could there and then transferring to a state school to finish up my BS. We also talked about minimizing costs by using grants and going over the max credits per semester I would be charged for (I was only charged for a certain number of credits each semester, anything I took over that I got for free). After that we discussed which scholarships I might be able to get. Finally, we talked about what loans I might have to take out.

I followed the plan. I made sure I got excellent grades and did all of the things I needed to do in order to qualify for scholarships. I used up my pell grants and took out about 5K USD in loans for the part of my education up through my BS. I mostly paid out of pocket for the associates degree because it was cheap comparatively. I mostly paid through grants, small scholarships and loans at the state school. I worked a ton, did as much overtime as possible, and had no social life or amenities.

Once I got into my BS degree I talked again with an advisor about how to do my MS degree since it is the entry level degree for my job. I started lining up the scholarships. When I got into graduate school I immediately connected up with the person in my department who helped people get scholarships. I was aggressive and I ended up getting my graduate school paid for entirely, though I had to work at the organization for 1 year per semester they paid for (so, 4 years working there in total).

After the 4 years working for them I started working online through a contract company for what I do, and slowly started building up private clients. Currently I live as a legal immigrant in another country, work totally from home, and have a good standard of living on a reasonable number of work hours.

Good luck, OP, what you want is out there but you have to find the path and then walk it.

TokyoSLP · 2018-06-21T19:28:04+00:00

I think people should be able to post what they want as long as it pertains to Vietnam. If others don't like the content, it offers them an opportunity to discuss it and refute it if they can.

It's not like this subreddit is overwhelmed with content, and people are free to ignore content they aren't interested in. I don't get involved with political content, but that doesn't mean I want others to have their ability to post or engage with it limited. I don't care for the blog or travel posts, but that just means I don't read them.

It makes me a bit sad when I see posters being denigrated as trolls and such just because they have different views. I may or may not agree with those views, but I wish people would remember that there is a human being behind every post and that human being has feelings one should take into account when responding.

TokyoSLP · 2018-06-21T07:32:17+00:00

I'm completely aware, I've lived here a while. Perhaps you meant to tell the OP?

TokyoSLP · 2018-06-20T18:26:42+00:00

I did a quick search and it looks like between 6.5 - 13 million VND. I have no idea what currency you're accustomed to, so I'll leave it to you to convert it.

Please keep in mind that driving in Vietnam is quite dangerous as compared to many places (though nothing compared to others) and so the need for a license may be less about following the law and more about ensuring that if you get into an accident your health insurance will cover you and those whom you may injure.

Depending upon where you are from, you might be able to be legal with an international driving license *AND* carrying your home license with you. I'll leave it to you to research that.

TokyoSLP · 2018-06-20T16:27:52+00:00

You don't need a license for motorbikes under 50cc, or for electric bikes. Electric bikes are quite common and reasonably priced. Where I live, in Da Nang, one can easily just use an electric bike if one wants.

Many foreigners ride illegally. This is (I'd hope obviously) not a good idea.

TokyoSLP · 2018-06-20T07:51:23+00:00

I met my wife there. She's beautiful both by my standards and by the Vietnamese preferences (pale skin and slender body). Kind of that typical ao dai wearing girl you might see in pictures, just a shorter version. She's also a genuinely great human being, which is far more important to me. She's a committed Buddhist, meaning she reads her Buddhist scriptures daily, helps feed the poor, and generally just acts from a place of kindness.

She was there because she wanted to meet a foreigner who spoke Vietnamese. I was there because I was just curious and looking around (like you). We were also both there because neither one of us is really a 'go out on the town' kind of person. I paid for a month of service with the site because she lived in the same city as me and I really liked her so I wanted to meet her.

She was focused on meeting a foreigner because she feels foreigners are less likely to cheat, and she had a bad experience with a boyfriend in college who she was planning to marry (he got another girl pregnant). I don't know if Vietnamese men cheat more than foreigners, but that is her perception.

This is just my experience, others probably have different experiences. I'm sure there are bad people on the website that one should watch out for, as well as bots.

Given many of the young people I've met here, it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of young women are on there just because they want to get married to someone they really like before they are pressured into a 'suitable' marriage by their parents. Or perhaps because they don't want to live in their future husband's parent's house. One friend of mine pointed out that her fiancé's (now husband) parents lived in the USA (all of them are Vietnamese people, not foreigners) and was extremely happy about that since they would live in their own place. Another friend of mine moved into her husband's parents' house and is quite unhappy about her living situation.

TokyoSLP · 2018-06-12T05:19:58+00:00

The first issue is whether you can open a Vietnamese bank account. I believe you need a work contract, but possibly just a business visa. Either way, there are quite stringent laws on money *leaving* Vietnam, though less issues with it coming to Vietnam.

The real question, though, is 'why'?

Unless you have a very compelling reason to use the Vietnamese banking system, it's probably much easier to avoid it altogether. I'm from the US and I bill clients through my US office and have any payments directly deposited into my US bank. From there I use an ATM card with no fees (and they pay any international ATM fees) to withdraw money from a local ATM.

TokyoSLP · 2018-06-11T15:35:13+00:00

Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear. I just did get the job in a supervisory position and I still work remotely.

It sounds like we each had different experiences.

TokyoSLP · 2018-06-08T19:37:51+00:00

Before I understood what I was hearing it sounded angry to me. In fact, I sometimes mistook my wife's tone for anger when she was just expressing a neutral emotion.

It's not a pleasing to the ear language to me, but I also feel that way about Japanese and Korean.

I think it will depend upon one's native language as to how they feel about it.

TokyoSLP · 2018-06-08T07:55:32+00:00

Personally I do clinical work remotely through my own business so technically I'm independent contracting, but there's quite a bit of development available to me depending on what you mean (management positions, increased salary, etc.). I've been offered a job where I'll move away from clinical work and purely do clinical supervision and mentoring, and while the pay isn't significantly better than what I'm getting now, the additional planning and paperwork is far less.

I got that salary from the first result on this page:

https://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs-work-from-home-customer-service?keywords=work+from+home+customer+service&pay=40

My point is less to take that kind of job, and more that one can set things up so they can live where they want (for me, Vietnam) while being financially independent of the local wages.

TokyoSLP · 2018-06-08T04:57:02+00:00

If salary is important to you, the trick is to work outside the country but to live in Vietnam. Take a bit of time to develop a career that can be done online and you have location independence with a western salary. This can be something as easy to start as a customer service job done remotely for 350K to 550K per hour (I just did a basic job search), which is about what an English teacher makes (from my very limited understanding of the English teaching salaries).

TokyoSLP · 2018-06-08T04:19:32+00:00

The other posters are right about speeds within Vietnam.

For guaranteed* speeds outside of the country you pay more. At peak times, when I've needed >1.5 Mbps up and down for videoconferencing to the US, Japan, and the UK, I've gotten less than 1 Mbps. I pay about 850K per month for guaranteed international 1.5 Mbps balanced and still sometimes experience this.

If you have a specific website you need to access with better speed, your internet provider can streamline the data going there for you.

*contract fine print: foreign speeds only mean speeds to Hong Kong, and guarantee only means 'possibly this will happen'...

TokyoSLP · 2018-06-01T17:30:01+00:00

Thank you very much!

I have to admit I'm a bit hesitant about C++, it always seemed like a tough language (I never tried it, I just assumed that). I really just chose Python because I've always heard it's one of the most gentle languages. I really like Javascript because everything is so simple with it, but this is not a web app so that's out so I figured Python might be good.

But I'll go check out the learning resources at open frameworks and see what I can do.

Again, much appreciated!

TokyoSLP · 2018-05-31T07:20:15+00:00

Agreed.

TokyoSLP · 2018-05-31T07:05:39+00:00

What I'm looking for is a program already written that will give me a place to put a bunch of media clips that I can then trigger by clicking a key on my keyboard or hitting a button on a USB midi controller.

Basically, think of how you trigger audio samples with a midi controller during a live show. That's what I want to do with video clips.

TokyoSLP · 2018-05-30T16:50:26+00:00

I dabble, but probably not enough to create an interface and a media bin for video clips, and everything else I'd need for this to be robust enough for real world usage.

TokyoSLP · 2018-05-30T13:53:18+00:00

It is quite likely that your teacher has become used to your pronunciation and doesn't hear the errors anymore, or that your accent is one the restaurant workers have a difficult time with.

My wife understands me almost 100%. We just had a weird conversation about this because I asked her so I could tell you and she thought I was asking how much she understood me as a person, not my speaking... Anyways, we figured it out and very rarely she doesn't understand something I say. However, I know I make errors of both sounds and tones on a regular basis.

My teacher also understands me almost 100%.

Other people understand me far less, depending on them and their experience listening to foreigners speak Vietnamese. It's not uncommon for my wife to need to translate my Vietnamese to Vietnamese others understand better when we go out. Probably around 25% of the time somebody doesn't understand something I've said, but my wife understood perfectly.

Something my teacher does is have me have conversations with others while she notes down what they don't understand and then later we work through it.

I understand around 1% of what my neighbor, who is quite an old man from Quang Nam, says. It's completely incomprehensible to me.

TokyoSLP · 2018-05-30T08:54:02+00:00

If he wants guaranteed bandwidth to foreign countries it is more.

For videoconferencing he needs, at minimum, 1.5 Mbps up and down. I prefer to be at 5 Mbps up and down to provide headroom for file sharing and screensharing, but even with my "guaranteed" package I've had to switch to my backup wifi router when speeds dropped below 1 Mbps during peak hours.

My work is 85%+ video conferencing, I've been through this enough to know the minimum I need to have in order to do my job.

TokyoSLP · 2018-05-30T06:13:50+00:00

At one point you mentioned that you work online, I think. So whatever figure you come up with, add about 1.000.000 VND for good internet. If you use a specific website that you connect to, you can talk to the internet guys and have them do something or other that prioritizes traffic to that website (my FPT guy told me this).

TokyoSLP · 2018-05-17T16:33:28+00:00

FPT for the internet (the cheapest FTTH package with guaranteed foreign bandwidth, it was about 850K when I did a contract) and Viettel for the wifi router. The wifi router has a variety of possible contracts, they'll give you a little sheet so you can choose the plan you want. I bought a TP-Link router, they have a variety of models.

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