Golden Week 2007
I spend about one day a week in the offices of Powers Translation in Lishuiqiao in north Beijing. The location is a little far for me to travel to conveniently, so I do any work I have to do over the Internet if possible.
Our office is nice, but there is not much in it right now. Mainly, my Chinese partners go there everyday and run the ship. We have a secretary and in the future we will have a project manager. My partners will do most of the sales work. Originally my role was to be quality control for English material, doing proofreading and such. But my partners would like to see me do more sales work reaching out to International clients. We are currently negotiating my role in the company and my share of ownership. But I have made clear my freedom is important to me (as I might just want to move somewhere or do something else), so I can't commit myself too much. I just want a small stake in the business for now for my work.
This week is actually the Chinese Labor Day Holiday, also known as Golden Week. The holiday started May, 1st, a Tuesday. Its interesting the government, companies and schools across China had workers and students work over the weekend and Monday before they could take an extended holiday of seven days. That means that Chinese all across China worked and attended classes for eights days before they could take a seven day holiday. That would be totally unheard of in the states. Who could imagine be forced to work or going to school extra days on the weekend plus a day in advance of Thanksgiving or Christmas to make up for a national holiday vacation.
I made a webpage for my video collection. The web address is http://www.getpowers.com/video. I am excited about this because the videos are hosted on a 3rd party website. Everytime the video is viewed I can make a little money. It works like this. Every 1000 views over 20,000 views earns $5 dollars, as long as the video is rated 3 stars or higher by viewers.
I have two videos that have nearly 1000 views already in less than 3 days. I choose some videos from my collection, added some music, and uploaded them to the site. I have not made one cent yet, but I sure would be excited if this really worked. I think there is lots of material for making interesting videos in China that people in the states would want to see. Its just amazing some of the things you see in daily life that can knock you socks off. People doing some of the most interesting, or strangest or craziest things that you couldn't really imagine in the states. Its that culture shock factor.
I have a dream of making lots of money on the Internet. I think its so beautiful that something can be seen my millions in just seconds. I remember there was a video that a guy made for his resume and he sent it out to many companies. But it was tremendously bad, to the point it was funny. Someone uploaded the video to a website for people to watch and it was viewed by millions in a few short days. The guy who made the video tried to stop it from being shown, my thinking is that if he knew how to harness the attention, he could have made a lot of money. Upload the video to a website that put ads on it or something. But I can understand not wanting to be made a fool of.
If I can make a video of something interesting, such at people doing Tai-Chi exercises in the park, amazing flexibility exercises or playing unique Chinese music instruments, I think people might find that interesting. So I will see what I can come up with this summer.
Our office is nice, but there is not much in it right now. Mainly, my Chinese partners go there everyday and run the ship. We have a secretary and in the future we will have a project manager. My partners will do most of the sales work. Originally my role was to be quality control for English material, doing proofreading and such. But my partners would like to see me do more sales work reaching out to International clients. We are currently negotiating my role in the company and my share of ownership. But I have made clear my freedom is important to me (as I might just want to move somewhere or do something else), so I can't commit myself too much. I just want a small stake in the business for now for my work.
This week is actually the Chinese Labor Day Holiday, also known as Golden Week. The holiday started May, 1st, a Tuesday. Its interesting the government, companies and schools across China had workers and students work over the weekend and Monday before they could take an extended holiday of seven days. That means that Chinese all across China worked and attended classes for eights days before they could take a seven day holiday. That would be totally unheard of in the states. Who could imagine be forced to work or going to school extra days on the weekend plus a day in advance of Thanksgiving or Christmas to make up for a national holiday vacation.
I made a webpage for my video collection. The web address is http://www.getpowers.com/video. I am excited about this because the videos are hosted on a 3rd party website. Everytime the video is viewed I can make a little money. It works like this. Every 1000 views over 20,000 views earns $5 dollars, as long as the video is rated 3 stars or higher by viewers.
一个外国人的中国生活 China Through The Eyes Of A Foreigner
I have two videos that have nearly 1000 views already in less than 3 days. I choose some videos from my collection, added some music, and uploaded them to the site. I have not made one cent yet, but I sure would be excited if this really worked. I think there is lots of material for making interesting videos in China that people in the states would want to see. Its just amazing some of the things you see in daily life that can knock you socks off. People doing some of the most interesting, or strangest or craziest things that you couldn't really imagine in the states. Its that culture shock factor.
I have a dream of making lots of money on the Internet. I think its so beautiful that something can be seen my millions in just seconds. I remember there was a video that a guy made for his resume and he sent it out to many companies. But it was tremendously bad, to the point it was funny. Someone uploaded the video to a website for people to watch and it was viewed by millions in a few short days. The guy who made the video tried to stop it from being shown, my thinking is that if he knew how to harness the attention, he could have made a lot of money. Upload the video to a website that put ads on it or something. But I can understand not wanting to be made a fool of.
If I can make a video of something interesting, such at people doing Tai-Chi exercises in the park, amazing flexibility exercises or playing unique Chinese music instruments, I think people might find that interesting. So I will see what I can come up with this summer.
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