Don't think how much you get paid

After six months stayed unemplyeed, May 1994 I was hired at first time by a Taiwanese shoe manufacturing company in Serang. My job was as an compound mixing machine operator. Frankly speaking this job was not suitable to my education at all, junior high school garduatee could do such job, no need associate degree. But I thrown away such thinking from my mind. I learnt to enjoy such job and beside I used to do any kind of physical-needed jobs. I found happiness doing such job, ended.

A month later, I was so lucky to get my second job - still in footwear manufacturing company. I worked in marketing department handling communication between our company and customers both local and overseas. I enjoyed such job much more than my first job. I had no experience at all in this area but becuase I enjoyed such job, I spent much of my time and energy to learn everything related to my job. Almost every day I worked from seven in the morning to six in the afternoon. But I loved it.

I had chance to interact with many people from different cultural background and level, such American, Canadian, Philipinos, Korean, Taiwanesse, Chinesse. Also I had chance to learn many other job, such as development, pricing, purchasing, production, export, import, and personel and general affair matters. I never thought how much I got paid. What I tought was that I needed to learn everything about company operation because I believed I would need it some day and for me as a marketing communication officer, it's very important to know all of the company daily operation so that I could give comprehensive information to our customers and they did not need to go around to get information, one channel was much better.

I was quite happy at time when I received copy of 'Nike Factory Evaluation' issued by Nike Inc. Jakarta representative to top management of our company in which they quite positively commented on my performance.

Seven years later I moved to another smaller company with slimming organization and my position required comprehensive knowledge and experience about manugacturing operation.