Hello, I'm Andrew Chen,
Antenna Expert from China

In January of 2007, I  started an internship in Foshan city (the biggest manufacturing city in Guangdong Province) for the preparation of the graduation. The reason why I chose Foshan City is that my old sister had stayed there for more than 6 years at that time with her family. And my father worked there too.

Three weeks after I came to Foshan, I got an offer of merchandiser from a lead-acid battery manufacturer in Gaoming district (Foshan City). Fortunately, I had passed the interview the day after I got the interview notice. I was really excited since it’s my first job in my life and I can live on my own from that time.

As a newbie, I am both excited and a little nervous to work for the first time. I was nervous because I was worried that I would not be able to do the job well. It turned out that the worry was superfluous because no one arranged specific work at all in the first two weeks. Every day, I had nothing to do but stay at the office and no one introduced other colleagues to me. From the third week, I was asked to take over a salesman’s work since she quit her job. The time limit is within one month. Obviously, this time is far from enough for me, but I have no choice but to agree to it with a hard head.

Unfortunately, I fell into a pit and it was just the beginning of a nightmare. I was often scolded when I made mistakes because the CEO was a very bad-tempered person, and extremely unqualified and uncultivated. What was even more annoying was that we often had to deal with various government departments because lead-acid batteries were a kind of dangerous goods that required mandatory commodity inspection. It’s necessary for every order for export. We had to go to the Commodity Inspection Bureau to apply for a release note, and occasionally we had to go to Customs. At that time, the communication efficiency of government departments was extremely low, and the clerks often made things difficult for people and ask for favors.

This experience caused me to be very disgusted with dealing with government employees for a while. In addition, there were many immoral customs inside the factory, and I was exposed to too many dark sides of society in a short period of time. After working for more than a year, I hated the job more and more and even developed some bad habits. Thinking for a long time, I thought this was not the life I want because that job can’t create long-term value for me and was far from my dream. So before the Spring Festival in 2009, I quit the job after I find a new job and begin to work as an overseas sales representative. It turned out later that it’s one of the best choices that I have ever made in my life.

Fortunately, I have learned a lot by myself and gained enough experience for export, which is very critical for my career in the future.