THE owner of a private car worth one million yuan (US$120,000) is looking for a job.

　　The man, identified as Mr. Zhang, owns a Lincoln Towncar which he bought six years ago, Daily Sunshine reported.

　　Zhang said he had been engaged in private business for several years. However, he suffered a big setback recently and had to close his business. He explained that he had no choice but find a job to afford the high cost of keeping a car. He has been advertising for a job in newspapers.

　　He said the car had covered nearly 160,000 kilometers during the past seven years and it cost him 15,000 yuan each year for maintenance alone, not including gasoline and tolls. It was also expensive to repair the car, which carries an examination fee of 600 yuan.

　　Zhang said he had been contacted by several employers but had received no clear answer yet. He said he had no clear target in terms of salary or post.

　　Several large companies interviewed by the paper said they had some psychological pressure in hiring Zhang.

　　“Salary is the biggest problem for the employer. How much shall we pay him? If the salary is lower than 10,000 yuan a month, how can he afford his daily expenditure?” were questions posed by one company spokesman.

　　Employers would be quite cautious in paying a high salary to a person who could not assure them that he could match his costs and was valuable to their businesses, he said.

　　(Li Jing)