It’s a Saturday, but guess where I am! Yep... I’m in the office. Apparently in China, when there is a holiday on a Wednesday they will give you a three day vacation. However, the vacation falls Monday through Wednesday, and the proceeding Saturday and Sunday become working days. Personally, I find it quite strange. This also makes this week the longest work week ever!
I’ve received requests to answer some questions about my job, so here goes. First of all, I’m working at an international biotech and pharmaceutical company. The Shanghai location is mostly research-based. In the labs, they’re doing all sorts of really cool R&D. (It’s the sort of stuff that I was interested in BEFORE taking Life Sci 1a.) I’m working in the Human Resources department, and although the working language is officially English, it quickly became obvious that the working language is effectively Chinese. Consequently, there are constantly conversations going on around me that I understand little to none of. Luckily there are other foreigners working here as well (but most are Chinese), and everyone has some degree of mastery over the English language, albeit with some quirky turns of phrase.
Now that I have my own desk furnished with a computer (a PC! AH!) and telephone, I’ve been given “real” work. (By “real” work I basically mean I’m not doing filing anymore.) The bulk of my work is comprised of two projects: designing and launching an employee health and wellness program, and working on an employer branding campaign for recruiting. Then there’s still some editing and reformatting, and other secretarial duties to round things out quite nicely.
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Your two projects sound quite challenging. I am interested to hear how the projects progress.
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