Solitaire Walkings----Experience Sharing

[size=5][color=Blue]  Hey,Every one here!I am Solitaire!
\ upS9e1^&d      Actually I am not a green hand here,I have been in this fourm more than one and a half years,only seldom talked!Today I'd like to share some opinions and experience on international trades:bwwhd$dg&K._bL
     The same to my name,I am still a single,I was graduated in 2005,and came to Shanghai in Sep. the same!Lu+y'Sjo
     Frankly speaking,I was not a good student at college,but I was a good reader truley!I even failed my French Exams twice,but I never failed my major English!Everyone knows,it is too free and no watching-eyes at college,so always we skip classes,I also,but I never skip marjor  classes!I love reading,and every semester I insisted on  seven books ,digest but not just swallow:One novel like 《Hunchback of Notre Dame》《The Cross Scarlet》《Jane Eye》etc. Two works on translation and interpretation;Another two on International trades and the other two on English cultures and literature,I love English poems very much!H Ny4Se3^g+zM @
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      As a fact,at college all the teachers are good English masters,but not good positivist!Especially,all the knowledge they taught on Inter. Trades are outdated....this is the biggest shortage on China Education!So I was lucky to have read enough books on international trades besides class majors!But also I read and leant too much special techniques on English language so that I always effected them in Education Exams----always mistakes came and never done as excellent in Exams!But I never care these records too much except my Oral English!
JE.L9gu&V#e7?+}       On the other hand,I am lucky I was very poor at that time, I came from a small village in Luoyang,Henan Province,all my families survived by my father's only salary--a primary school teacher....So I even once was forced to discontinue my studying on junior beginning....Everyone knows junior is very important for an English marjor,Major classes/TEM 4/TEM 8 preparation......So I was really brokendown at that time,I have to earn money by help others pass English test 4/6,even took two exams together in one day.....but all these failed me in my own exams......but I never regret on this,I still feel I was really very lucky I was so poor at that time,for this made me know how difficult and how valuable ths studying time is,and I cherished every minute and chance to stay at colleage,fullused every minute and chance to practice with my foreign teachers and read in library!Even before the last day for Students ID returnist,I still in the library.....almost all my classmates went out for job seeking or home stay,I was the only person still at colleage reading and working on Papers:I even did 8 different papers for my friends who didnot have time or absent at college.......[/color][/size]

[size=5][color=Blue]     After Graduation,I came to Shanghai lonely,and find this job!I am a royalist,and never do job-hoppings,this company is still my first choice sice 2005!P[4qGtYn)e} E`
     On the first day in Shanghai,I was really excited and fearless:No friends and familiars here,I had made myself helpless,then I must survive and give up my vanity!At the beginning,I even didnot know where was the Talent Markets,so almost everyday,I was walking through this city with a hand map!It is easy to get familiar with this city,but more and more difficulties visited on me:
f'T,E2S6WlK;XF~      1>Experience shortage:as everyone knows,almost every interview they  required one or two years experience on related works!As a freshman,I had no experience especially in International trade,so It was really so dificult to find a job here due to my exect major and knowledge leant at college!But also it is said:"To every lock,there is a key!",I was lucky enough to find my key---Took every chance to participate the exhibitions in Shanghai,and did occasional interpretations and customers receipt for exhibitors,even sometimes without any pay,but it is ok to me for my aim was to gain experience and perfect myself in practice!Yah,it was really useful,and I met my boss who urgently need a person who can handle these things in a coming VIP exhibition in Shanghai,so I came and worked for a period during exhibitions,and finally  as a international sales man in this company!
v F)^?6lc6M1D       2>Money shortage:I was very very poor at that time,but Shanghai is a very very expensive city,so it was really very very difficult to me ,a lonely straggler!From the second week here,I became used to walking on foot from one TM<Talent Market> to the other,so my first stop was always Shanghai Stadium,and then Shanghai Exhibition Center....not very far,and I could walk to participate two or three marketings there!Also I seldom had breakfast in the morning,until now I still seldom have for it has been became as a habit,at noon bought some snack for stomach confort,for the supper it will be very easy----I alays ate the cheapest food:Egg Fried Rice,so I was really very sorry to the restaurant boss near my habitation,but finlly they revised the price of Egg Fried Rice specilly because of me!That made me change to other foods choices....these just small dificulties indeed,the biggest difficulty is  chummage,it is really very high here and always four months' together....even for a time,I only have 40 RMB in my Card for a week....but finally all came and gone!Thanks to my dear friends who helped me in that period!
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you are good student

Thank you very much,and I am lucky to have you my first reader:hug: r)e3a? TYp7_4X

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[quote]Originally posted by [i]Solitaire[/i] at 2008-4-24 11:00 [url=http://forum.fobshanghai.com/redirect.php?goto=findpost&pid=3243839&ptid=322419][img]http://forum.fobshanghai.com/images/common/back.gif[/img][/url])NK/s0v}!wX]8M
[color=Magenta]      Everytime,when we overcame a dificulty,we may found it was really so easy the difficulty!... [/color][/quote]N3@Z G,f
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This sentence is really inspiring ... :)

:) :victory: I feel very excited at your feet after reading your text,come on! u are great guy, I believe you'll have a bright future

you pain , so you gain

you set a good example.We will learn from you.

Hi Solitaire,
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Many thanks for your story. I can understand your situation in those difficulty days. You're lucky maybe because you always have a good and positive attitude to face every hardness. Life is not so easy for most of us. I really hope you are now relating your experience with an easiest tune. So pls don't always forget your breakfast. It is as important as your time and money. People can't go further and better without a good health. Looking forward to reading your memorable experience.

No pain no gain,wish you walk further and then share more working experience with all of us.

i think you'd better quit your habit with no breakfast:)

it is very kind of you to sharey
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[size=5][font=Times New Roman][color=Red]Wow,so many thanks for all you here,especially Jeff008 and Mazy,all you up have made me to continue:
_+b4r,A0n    Today I would like to share something on the luv beings:
H/u \_cz9]O    Just as a fact as pre-introduction,I am not a good student,and in my high school life,I have got my first love--puppy love!Frankly speaking,I do have boosting confidence in my English ability,I have master Grammars very well while still in  junior high school ---I got very close relationships with all my English teachers,and they taught me specially from others!So in high school,I seldom listening to lectures,but that not mean I never studying it,I was always the one who helped teachers marking examination papers and exercises,so I was lucky to lean from others' mistakes,and also I have a good habit to read 《The 21 Century》 every morning while others even donot know this News Paper,so I can get top points always!Maybe this is the very highlight points which took her to me!H)rM$|hi}c-{$@t+Be
But at that time,we were really too young,too pure,too simple and ignorant,the love was simple appreciation only,so it was too yong to survive,and we were too easy to get hurt and say bye!Fortunately we have no ultra acts except emotion!,f#Y!h@f
    When I began my college life,as preface,high pressure life made me self-possessed:the puppy love made me fullfilled with responsibility and realism,even made me thought student love is nothing and no results tomorrow,also college time was really too expensive to game!So I always stay in the deserted classroom or library,even in the rest time,I just stay on my seat for reading and writing,after four years coexitence,there even  had some girls I never talked with.....maybe I　was regarded as a monster with ice-heart and cold-blood,but I was really helpless for I always got afraid of tomorrow,love is pure,holy and uppermost for me,I refused to play,and I cannot accept it senselessly when I was still a student who still a bloodsucker and could afford nothing!So I got no love affairs in my college time!1\^F0[:?.d0c
   But to say a fact,I cannot promiss I never falled in love or moved since then,that onlybe lying!I am a common person,I have desires also,I have a Snow-White also,but I only act as a silent admirer,only a silent admirer!I love playing basketball,and always the basketgame was the way to calm my  agitated heart down!Every night I was excited to study with her together in the same calssroom,and sometimes this kind of sorrowful sweet even made me uncomfortable and uneasy,but I cannot help to stady with her....and in the last two years we always study together---same come and same go,but we neither said it out,till now she staying Beijing and I in Shanghai!Maybe we are only the ones who share the tears for a nameless reason,but not the ones who can share and live together.....We are too similar in characters and dreams,we can encourage each other and drink together,but difficult a love involved!That is my college Romantics!;`wW){.Ka
    In this year,I though I got a love,a college classmate who I never talked to at college,She came to Shanghai for job hunting,surely I am her first destination,and every weekends I may accompany her to the talent markets/sightseeing and send her to home<very far from my place,I always back around 12 o;clock>,but two weeks ago,I was so sorry to find thay she was just kiding,and chating with a net lover.....  I got really very puzzled on these funny things,I cannot understand her utmost world,maybe I have been single for too long time,still a stupid virgin,and cannot understand what love it is indeed,maybe all the girls today is just similar like,but I cannot persuade myself to play with love.....So I left again,and refused to meet her again!So this is my last Rmantics!
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I admire your empressement and your courage to talk about your romantics in public!2yTa7X^!p
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Good luck!:)

What u metioned about English learning, i think the more you touched and practised, the more you can manage it. That it is! Just as any other languages and skills.
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-{2n'q:P/IBB I was a little surprised to read your love story. I would have thought it may be an experience or sth like that. Whatever it is good or not, you had such days, didn't u. There're always so many passerbies come in and out our life. But only few of them we could still remember. Don't worry! You can find your real snow-white in the near future.

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Today is Saturday,but I woke as early as usual,I forgot the date today again!In these days,all the company information and data is in updating,so I am busy in translation works and paperworks!But the guys in office really not in good works,and always have questions and problems to bother me and make me in chaos.....also the macro economy is slowing down for the shit-boosting currency exchange rates,and even the piggy Western Medias became vicious and cheeky.......it is becoming so difficult for export tradings......too many pressures fallen on my slim shoulder and make me brokendown.....But it is lucky I can sit here and go on with my experience sharing works: L YKc7T.~
       What topic shall we take today?maybe the best one is some advices to jackaroos and some comments on the current situation: r([.J!T*q!]!Dp
       Current Situation:
+sN} VE_#[(V8r           1>Due to exchange rate breaking-down under the pressures from Westerns,almost everything is crashing:CPI rate is heading up for serious inflation;Securities business becoming kidding up and down;Tibet  meets damned riots........More and more difficult for the export trades,and in the new two years,the trading company will be closed a lot for it is the late times for them in China!Only some manufacturers can survive after this difficult time!
]5OuyH!G-q(qc           2>Due to the improvement of people lives,and development of the whole world countries,more and more clear that the people are changing mind to good quality items but not cheap ones like before!Sothe best times is coming for Import tradings in the next few years! RN9^;] y4WU z9i8V
          3>Due to the intercommunication  more and more with outsides countries,more and more we found the gaps on high technics with others!So the outlets of Export and Manufactures will be high Technology developments,it is the late time for imitations and broken prices! :B,v3f:KCSH0r \
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           1>The world is always changing a lot,we have been in WTO,and the economic situation no longer belongs to us only,and all the developments and changes in other countries will affect us,we shall keep our eyes on politics from now on!
;sZ Gun YH?3G            2>Donot take your college teachers' ideas in mind,they most time are outdated,I am sorry,I respect teachers very much ,and my father is a teacher also,but it is really the truth!They really did quite well in knowledge,but have been away from practice,for all their experience have been many many years ago,or even some donot have any actual experience,but only theories!So they may mislead you somewhere,For Example:
nTk;m6AE              You will always be told in books or by teachers to find a job in a very very big company,from a common staff beginning,and step by step to become a manager and leader,it is deadly wrong!!!!!This opinion comes of Western Managing Books,but not China!Just like some fools told you,how great it is that China did so well in B2B nets,and other countries cannot do it so well!That means we chinese are too smart than westerners!They really deadly fool!They never know for other countries they donot B2B,B2C has been enough for their local markets!I just get in mind the story we all know:add special legs for a snake!There too small population in other countries,and one dealer is enough for all the people needs in there country,why they make two?So also the opinions on promotion systems:they seldom face so much pressures and so many competitors in the same company,and also they never have so many rivals in the talent markets,so it is good idea for them to await promotion in big companies!But we cannot in China!So many people and so many rivals are job-hopping,you seldom get promotion and experience,and even can lean nothing from a big company!That is the way!
BB0x4o P2[g           3>Experience is much more important than salary,also job-keeping is also a kind of experience!All the glories at college and precompanies are just memories and nothing!Forget it,and start everything again like the first day taken!So patience is the most treasure in nowadays which people seldom have any more!You can easily find you are so good and lucky when you worked in a company more than two years! P qj.ln/}
          4>Keep your eyes on the market and Import issues,it is changing in CHina from Low&cheap quality to Top qualiy requirments,so the marketing is upheading,and it is another 1980s for us!We shall get this chance if possible and donot let it easy go! k4iOm.AOk
          Ok,it is time today,but I am not sure if it is easy for understanding today,but I hope all you well note and get ahead!Just my wooden minds for your reference!IP;e(okM/T6s
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you are very diligent and positive,so you overcome the difficulty.Good lunck to you .After reading this thread ,I think no need to blame anything about work any more .Just work hard ,no time for complaining .
7Q9mdY.n My experience in the university is so much similarwith you ,so much poor ,and worried about many things ,felt university is too much expensive to paly in .But I do not work hard enough ,and did not come out from the bad emotion .Anyhow ,hope it is not too late and will work harder .

Reply #16 Solitaire's post

Many thanks for your kind suggestions here. I also have some different ideas for share with friends.
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Firstly, yes. No trade is easy for us. Not only foreign trade but also sales in domestic markets. If any of us want to learn and gain more from this society, we'd better do it with heart and work hard.
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Thirdly, i agree with u. Experience is more important than salary at the first years, especially to friends who have large goals. As saying goes, there's no satiety in study. What you learnt, what more u will gain. And don't jump your jobs so frequently.:D

You are correct in stating that cheap goods aren't where the real value is.
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the books that in your article are all world-famous~

it is so many things to share   TKS LZ    i will improve my english everyday

Great thanks for all above!I donot want to be a story teller,for I  am not a writer,so I just want to share with you all,and your questions will be fully appreciated and share together!:handshake

Hi Solitaire

Maybe it is only late reply, you will not read it because it is such a long time until now.
"CF"aH2Hx i am a new member in this forum, you story moves me and touches my heart, you are brave enough to share your story with all of us.~4t1T*nq3S
Most of us encounter some trouble and escape, but compared with your difficulties, it is so small, so there is no reason for us to complain and to be perstimistic.........
R3{:Km/C3MV9v In a word, your story is really really inspiring..... so just continue to share with us ......it is nice,... hope we all can be as strong as you........:victory:

:hug: Thanks for your kind attention and support!In my world,there is no one late-coming or Wrong-time-coming,so you are just in time!Ii^+w"Za_
I was absolutely bussy in these days,so stopped my sharing,but I was always here sharing with you for my hear is living here for residence like a Freedom King!hehe Surely I donot want to be a story teller,but a sharer,so I am willing to be a listener also.....WwI1y@\&qm J

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i am a new member in this forum, you story moves me and touches my heart, you are brave enough to share your story with all of us.
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x| {,Fb:V6t In a word, your story is really really inspiring..... so just continue to share with us ......it is nice,... hope we all can be as strong as you........:victory: [/quote]

good expericences thanks.