Keep Walking (2/2)

During past five years, I changed my job four times. Each time when I decided to leave a company, I told myself "I don't want to work here, I deserve more better!" Thus I always looked forward a better job, which was paid a higher salary, less working time and close to my house. But it is not truth, because there is always a better one can be chose.  In that period I lose myself in an infinite loop until I lose my job finally.

Sometimes I miss my second job, which is to develop software utilities about 3D display panels and touch panels in a TFT-LCD manufacture. Why I missed it? It seems gave less salary than other companies, however it offered a nice place for a R&D engineer to attempt new ideas leading industry. Not only I learned a lot of knowledge about LCD/LED but also earned respect and higher salary than average there.

A process of producing TFT-LCD 

(Photo from http://www.auo.com/?sn=47&lang=zh-TW)

I got a higher paid in my third job but I'm not sure it really I want. One year later, I quit it and decided to slow my step and to think about my life. I went to German and left in Berlin for three months. It was my first time to leave my home place so far and so long.

Through Madeline China, Middle-Asia and East-European, after an eighteen hour flight I arrived German. To go to German is my dream as I was a child. It's so hard to describe how thrilled I could be here. I found a language institute at Berlin to study Germany. Everyday all that I did was to study Germany and be a good tourist. Some people said "simple is best" and I think it is truth. I put my annoyance down and enjoyed being alone.

A snapshot of a Turkey supermarket near my house

Near U-Bahn Schönleinstraße where I left. In the last month in German, March - 2012, I often walked along the river Spree from Kottbußer Brüke to Potsdamer Platz after my Germany course. I've always been impressed with this way. In early spring of Berlin, you can see there are many trees stand on the riverside, and most of them are already green. In a sunny afternoon, some people will sit on the riverbank have a picnic or read books, some people take their children play in the river park, and some people in restaurants are eating, drinking and talking. Can you image the river, the tree and the people?  How this scene is beautiful!

Early spring in Berlin

"Why? Why am I here?" as I was walking on the road, I thought this question. Several months ago, I had a good life: a high paid job and a family, everything looked like good. Suddenly, I lose my family and then lose my job. It was a bad time for me than ever before, but I am still brave to chase my dream. That's me, that's why I went to German.

Even in a bad situation, what I'll never do is doing nothing or self-pity. Further more, I have a determination to make the circumstance be favorable to me. In these months I relearned how to make new friends, how to communicate with other persons, how to plan my daily life, how to do a thing rightly and to think about what is the truth of my life. Until now, when I restart my life in Taiwan the above things are very useful to me. I having a new job and I'm very enjoy the challenge come with it. Besides, I think I'm a very luck guy because there is a nice pretty girl who really love me.

There is an advice from a cartoon named "South Park", said by Kyle Broflovski, "Look, dude. Things around here have changed. Sometimes, the only way to keep going is to make a left turn". I think it is right.

Kyle Broflovski

(Photo from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Broflovski)

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