addition to visiting the Forbidden City, Summer Palace and the Great Wall is also a shopping trip to the Silk Alley (Xiushui Jie) to the standard range of tourists. Originally it was actually a narrow lane, lined up at the stalls that were involving more or less true brand clothes at bargain prices (with good negotiation skills) are sold. This lane is for some years only history, there now is a multi-storey department store, only the name remains. There, too, is lined with small stands that result from Victoria backpack, the Columbia jacket and diesel sports shoes to Oakley sunglasses, Billabong T-shirts and Callaway golf clubs pretty much every (trade) Products that think they are can. This store has no windows, the air is stuffy, it's noisy and usually there is a very brisk business. For people who want to stock up on cheap brands therefore a good level of stamina and stress resistance is demanded. But who are these mostly younger salespeople who this hectic and noisy bustle daily exposure?
works over three years now since the 22-year-old Xiao Jiang on the fourth floor in one of those small items and sells golf equipment. Immediately after the end of schooling (high school) she has left her apparently poverty-stricken village in Zhejiang province, to check how many millions of migrant workers and migrant workers from poorer provinces their luck in Beijing and with any job, at least a halfway decent income to . achieve
the job in "Silk Alley" department store is truly not a "chocolate job". Xiao Jiang is working, except for short holidays during the Chinese New Year, free all year without a single Day and this clock from 9 am to 9 clock in the evening (with a short lunch break). This work is required in addition to sales and negotiating skills were above all a robust physical constitution. Meanwhile, Xiao Jiang speaks more than passable English, and has in the time when I know them now developed into an intelligent and very self-confident young woman. Compared to sellers in "normal" stores, shops, Xiao Jiang earned quite well, she can even have their own small room near the Silk Alley afford and put one or two yuan to the page (apart from the fact that she has no time to spend money). Despite their hard work and degrading from a European perspective Office hours, I experience Xiao Jiang voted always cheerful and positive. You have to listen even more precisely and "read between the lines" if you want to learn something about their concerns, desires and dreams.
Xiao Jiang, the Silk Alley in September and turn their back to try to find another job in her home. First, they will recover but even by the hardships of the past three years, take time for their friends and just enjoy life again. I wish her good luck for the future! Xiao Jiang, zai jian!
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