Calling Times and J Training vs. “Work”

Dear Friends,

As we end daylight saving time I got to wondering about time around the world. Specifically I was wondering until what time you can call people at night at their homes to say hello in different countries. Vipul in India says you can call people at home up to about 10 in the evening, which is about the same time I would call people here in the US – though I start feeling self-conscious after 9:30. Simone says that in Brazil you don’t want to call after 10:30 because after that people expect you would only be calling because of an emergency. Cesar, from Spain, says it is similar in his homeland, where you don’t want to call after 11:00 pm unless you want to worry people. In China, Fei says that it is even earlier. There, if you are calling around 8:00 pm you should start by saying “I hope it is not too late to call.” But Chinese are not shy and before you get a chance to say anything they might have already told you “Oh, you are calling very late!”

J Training or J Internship Is Not Work

While the J Training and the J Internship programs are “work based” they are not specifically “work” programs. There are working visas, such as the H-2B, that are designed to allow internationals to work in the US but the J are Exchange Visitor visas that, for the Training and the Internship programs, allow one to gain experience in a field through a work-based placement. The difference is very fine but, especially when being interviewed by a US consular official for a J visa, it is very important that applicants understand it.

This week I was in Utah and Wyoming visiting resorts and ski areas in those beautiful states. We will be posting additional open positions for those areas this week but in the meantime please do be sure to check our current open positions.

Please note that as of Sunday November 2, the time in the United States has went back an hour (except for the States of Hawaii and Arizona). We are now on “standard time.”

Hope you don’t receive any too-late-calls this week.