The coworkers are extremely straightforward. Most employees who have worked there for more than five years started as part-time workers while they were students and transferred directly to full-time positions after graduating. Basically, very few have other work experience, so relationships are simple and easygoing.

If you like clay or drawing, you can create samples in styles you enjoy by making models based on popular cartoons.

Improve your clay and drawing skills.

Spend time with healthy, happy children and experience their innocence.

The good point is that the salary is around NT$30,000 at the beginning; during the anniversary sales period, it can reach around NT$80,000 in certain months. The bad point is that, without additional bonuses, the base salary makes it difficult to exceed NT$30,000.

The pay system is very strange. The NT$24,000 base salary is paid by bank transfer, while the monthly enrollment bonuses are paid in “cash” and then distributed to full-time employees by the managers of each store counter.

The payslip only lists the “base salary” and labor and health insurance deductions; bonuses are not included, allowing the company to insure employees at the lowest salary bracket.

The company has a serious generational gap. Most employees have five to ten or more years of seniority, while very few have two or three years.

From April to June 2019, the company deemed four employees at the Taipei counters unsuitable and held an unofficial competition based on sales performance. The person who came last was transferred from Taipei to work in Taichung, and vice versa. This caused several employees to resign voluntarily; the braver employees managed to obtain severance pay.

A senior employee who had worked in Taipei for 15 years was forced to transfer to Taichung and has since resigned.

Part-time workers are paid the same as elsewhere—NT$150 per hour. Every Saturday, Sunday, and national holiday (and during the busy summer vacation period, they also have to work), they can take only one day off per month and cannot request leave or find a replacement.

At busy locations, one part-time worker has to teach two or three children at once, including both drawing and clay. The children span a very wide age range.

Teaching is calculated using a point system; you must exceed the target before receiving a raise. On the surface, it looks like wages can increase, but exceeding the target is very difficult.

For example, the total number of teaching points in one day must exceed 80 before the hourly wage increases by NT$30 (to NT$180 per hour), but in practice, 50 teaching points in a day is already the maximum.

At work, you have to deal with demanding parents and all kinds of requests. Working in a department store is service-oriented: customers are treated as highly important, and you have to win over both the children and their parents’ money.