Category: Christian in the Workplace

By Shen Ai I worked in a restaurant. I worked 12 hours every day and only had two days’ holiday each month. Because there were only a few workers in the restaurant and many customers coming to it, we did a lot of things every day: mopping the floor, wiping the tables, clearing the dishes, […]

By Zheng Xin After Spring Festival, I found a job of sewing buttons and packaging in a small privately-owned clothing factory. In order not to miss meetings, I told the boss that I was to do piece work on a flexible schedule and get paid according to the amount of work I did. And my […]

By Shitou Getting Lost in the Temptation of Money Shitou was an ordinary clerk of a foreign-funded enterprise, which engaged in the semiconductor-manufacturing business (producing storage cards, USB drives, hard disks, and so on). He had been working in the enterprise for eleven years, during which time he saw much of the world and knew […]

By Liu Jing When my mother took me to the hospital to see a doctor in my childhood, I saw doctors and nurses in white shuttling to and fro and felt that they were like angels. I deeply admired them and thought: If only I would become an “angel in white” when I grow up! […]

By Xin Xin In order to live, I rented the second floor of a shopfront, starting a cosmetics shop. Although it is not that popular, my income is enough for my yearly expenses. I live a simple life year after year. In the winter of 2015, my friend came to find me with joy, and […]

By Jiejing, Japan In April, 2015, I came to Japan, a beautiful country which I had been longing for for a long time. Seeing the good environment and citizenship here, I was eager to find a job, so that I could reside here. Later, a senior told me that it was difficult for foreigners to […]

By Qiu Mu It was close to midnight. Under an orange lamp, Qiu Yu was sitting at her desk alone, keeping busy with something. A few moments later, a design drawing was finished. She took it up, and watched it in every detail. But instantly, she threw it into the trash can with a long […]

By Xinyu Why Is It Difficult to Be Honest in Real Life? When I started my clothing business, it didn’t sell well. At that time, many people in my line of work had purchased houses and cars one after another. It really made me distressed: We do the same business. Why do others become rich […]

By Duo Ji, Italy I worked designing patterns in a printworks. In a modest office worked only my boss, my colleague Xiaozhang, and I. In the boss’s eyes, Xiaozhang, who had been a designer there for more than a year, was a hardy, humorous, and capable person, and so the boss liked him and valued […]