In my forays of the internet, the two things that seem to generate the most page views are: scantily clad women (and men I suppose, though I suspect they have less of an online pull; unless they are vampires) and advice for job hunting. Having no experience whatsoever with the former, I shall address the latter as it relates to language, via this blog, where an intrepid student of the Common Speech discovers that ideographic-tone mastery is not an automatic pass to wealth and power (and by extension, scantily clad male vampires / women):
The simple fact is however, mastery of Chinese, no matter how good you are, is NOT a golden ticket to employment in the United States.* That is, of course, unless your career goals are purely linguistic in nature (i.e. Chinese teacher, interpreter, or translator). More often than not, expats who learn Chinese and return home, find their way back into the same career (or school) path they had before they ever left for China in the first place.
Why would anyone think that Chinese could be useful? There are after all ~1.35 billion people who can speak the language, and most of them are bilingual in their local pidgin dialect. A much smaller percentage possess barely passable English skills. Of course, an employer can probably meet most staffing requirements by skimming off the top of 0.05*7 million university graduates every year. This teeming mass of humanity is willing to work for USD200 per month, and entrepreneurial enough to manage a farm on the side.