Why follow trends, do what you love

Nowadays there are increasing numbers of people trying immigrating to overseas, I know quite a few friends closing their businesses or quitting their prestige jobs in China by running a very small grocery shop kind of business in order to get permanent residency in Australia. There’s nothing wrong, they might sick of high stressful jobs or escaping from an air-polluted home country pursing a better life in Australia.

It is not the fact at all, in some successful cases, lots of them once got PR, their businesses in Australia were immediately sold out and they moved back to China. The worst examples, after a couple of years,  some people running away from Australia by losing money as they really hate living overseas, with no family around, can’t communicate properly in English language. Eg, I heard a story from my friend, one lady bought a coffee shop, however, she didn’t know how to make coffee, therefore, and she used to be fooled by employees for not attending work without increasing the wages.  In the end she had to return back to China by shutting down the business as that was too stressful for her to handle. By the way, in Australia, there would be huge difficulties to be a boss without understanding the law; it is too easy for an employee to put his or her manager into court.

That’s what I’ve heard: We came to Australia as the agent told us how fresh the air is, how good social security and  education system in Australia, no, we should not listen to them at all, they only care about money.

I remember 13 years ago, MBA was so popular in Shanghai, it seemed everybody was gonna have a MBA degree including me as I was so hesitated whether enrolled a course or not, and I did actually had a diploma of Business and tried very hard eventually won the scholarship from Latrobe Uni. But when I studied overseas, I realized how wasteful it was, nobody was really interested in learning MBA unless you were working at a position of management. I was very regret. I should have studied accounting as I am good at numbers rather than words. I was so stupid by following trends without thinking which suits me most because  I couldn’t get much suggestions, the miss-leading advertising was overwhelming, it’s easily to be lost if you don’t know what you really want.

I also wasted time on certificates without thinking about why I should have them, in my opinion, the more certificates the better. It was because everyone else was doing. I got computer certificate I, that’s ok for the basic stuff. But again, certificate II, which was very hard to learn, I had no idea what it was talking about at all. Although luckily I got certificate out of 30% passing rate, even one computer lady in my company failed. But it was useless, I was quite unhappy as I didn’t get a better position which was related to computer as the lady had some relation with the manager. But now I realized that I am not that type of person for computer as it is too boring for me, but why I studied then, there’s no meaning.

I always think it’s quite easy for Chinese people doing business as long as they know what will start getting popular at first place.  A few years ago, almost all girls in shanghai were having an UGG shoes made in Australia or whichever country. If you were in China, you must think all Aussies were wearing that kind of shoes, Actually, I could hardly see anyone wear it on the street of Melbourne, why don’t buy a pair of good quality leather boots instead.

The year my niece was born, when I went back on holiday, my luggage was very heavy as it was full of 12 cans of Australian Brand formula milk for little kids. When I arrived at Shanghai, I was told: “Sorry, the kid only drink one particular kind brand Australian-made milk, everyone’s having that brand in shanghai.” My Goodness, I have never seen that brand in Australia. The brand was only advertised by Chinese businessmen, which was sold at a very high price only available in China. What’s wrong with these people, why they ignore the real one by having a fake one nobody knows in Australia. How bad influence the advertising starts from Children.

I feel there’s one uniformed lifestyle in Shanghai or China, but as a person, do we need some individualism for our particular needs? Probably some people has no time to think about what really love is, therefore, he or she accepts everything which is the most popular.

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