2006年,我来到加拿大,在温哥华定居至今已有十年。出国前,自己是一名艺术院校的钢琴老师,有稳定的工作和收入,出国后,变成了一名自力更生的自由职业者。按理说,音乐无国界,教钢琴应该算是一个容易在海外谋生的职业,但温哥华是一个移民聚居、英文为主的城市,钢琴老师供过于求,竞争十分激烈,除了加拿大本地的老师,还有来自于柯蒂斯、朱利亚等 In 2006, I came to Canada and settled in Vancouver for ten years now. Before I went abroad, I was a piano teacher at an art college with steady jobs and income. After leaving China, I became a self-reliance freelancer. It stands to reason that music has no boundaries and teaching pianos should be regarded as a career that is easy to earn a living overseas. However, Vancouver is a city where immigrants live in predominantly English-speaking countries. Pianist oversupply and competition is fierce. Apart from local teachers in Canada, Curtis, Julia and so on