My Future Brilliant Career

Great, I think to myself as I stare into the bathroom mirror, another long day at the stinking T.V. factory. As I rush down the stairs to the street I bump into Ms. Chong, my neighbor from across the hall. She asks me if I would like to eat some fish and rice later, but I decline, as I may be working late. I hurry to the station and jump on the crowded train and ride it towards the factory.

Luckily I make it to work on time and change into my work uniform. My job at the television plant is to pour the foam packing peanuts into the shipping boxes after the finished televisions are put into them. My job is pretty monotonous, but I like it because I sometimes shoot my co-workers with the foam peanuts that come out of the hose. Everyone always gets mad at me because they think I’m a slacker. They just don’t know how to have fun. My boss, Mr. Wong is a real piece of work. He is always on our backs about productivity, and he is always comparing us to other factories, telling us how unproductive we are compared to them. I think I’m the only one who ever complains about the guy. Everyone else acts like Mr. Wong is a super great guy; I think they are all a bunch of brown nosers.

As the months roll by, my job becomes more and more boring. Rumors begin to spread throughout the factory. Rumors that our plant is going to be closed down and sold to another company. It is more than likely that if our plant is sold my co-workers and I will be replaced, and we will be out of a job.

So I begin to search the city for a new job. Just in case my old one ends. I am able to find many jobs in the fishing industry. These jobs don’t appeal to me because the smell is bad, and the pay is low. Finally I am able to find a position as a mailroom clerk in a computer company.

Sure enough five months later my television factory is sold and all the workers are replaced, including me.

Luckily for me I am able to get the job in the mailroom at the computer company. The name of the company is Wang Global. Wang Global builds computer boards for cash registers. It also buys integrated circuit technology from other companies and modifies it, then resells it. I like the people at Wang much better than the people at the television factory. I also like my mailroom job much better. All I have to do is put incoming mail from giant bins into slots that co...

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...d designs from existing plans bought from other overseas computer companies.

Things go great until foreign companies start refusing to sell us their technologies. All of the overseas technology producing companies, primarily in the United States begin to catch on to the Wang Global’s moneymaking strategy and stop selling us new technology. This spells bad news for Wang Global and for my research department especially. Without new technologies coming in, my department has nothing to do and none of us know how to come up with new technologies ourselves; therefore, Wang Global doesn’t need us anymore. Within a year my whole department is informed that we need to clear out our things, and start looking for new jobs.

Luckily, I remember from my ECO 281 class back at Central, that this whole technology buying business will be coming to an end at about this time. Over the years I have been saving a large portion of my paycheck every week and putting it in high interest CDs and bonds. I have invested the other portion of my savings in Internet business startups so I am doing quite well. So, I decide to just retire and live off of my savings, I am quite happy with my life.