Thoughts about my work
I'm working in a UK company in Beijing this summer. The British corporate culture is fantastic and the English environment is great. Although the job itself doesn't require much skills, but I've learned so much in many other ways.
The company provides a series of learning sessions including presentation of Chinese and british cities, core competencies lesson and .introduction of different department etc. I enjoy joining every sessions to learn interesting things and also improving my listening skill, even though sometimes I find it quite hard to understand some sentences with professional words. The management style here is very different from Asian companies'. Unlike Asian company where the boss is always right, British company respects every staff and always encourage us to think and challenge. Meanwhile, we only work 7 hours a day and are able to get off work at aroud 4.30 pm. Can you imagine how amazing that is??!! It means I succesfully avoid the rush hour in Beijing every day which save a lot of my personal time. I used to be an auditor and get off work after 10 pm during peak season. To be honest, I don't think I can get back to that job any more after working here no matter how good the salary is hahaha! Btw, I always want to know, does BIG4 auditors in western countries work as long as we are in China everyday?? Can somebody tell me?
Nearly 2/3 staff here are British. However, people in my team are all Chinese so sadly there aren't many chances for us to make foreign friends. we don't usually greet each other when meeting with foreign staff in corridors. I do want to chat with them in the kitchen to make some British friends but it might be awkard because we don't really know each other. Even so, working in such a environment helps me with my British accent a lot. There are still a month before I leave and I hope things will get better and better. Thank you for reading~
