Close to the MRT station—the North Office is in the liveliest part of the East District, making it convenient to go shopping after work.

Early finish—The North Office is usually not busy. Unless there is overtime or a client visit, work generally ends by 5:30 p.m. at the latest; if necessary, overtime usually lasts until 6 or 7 p.m., and overtime can be claimed.

A one-and-a-half-hour lunch break—you can get a proper rest.

Opportunities for business trips—I went to the Kaohsiung office for training and flew to Beijing to handle business matters for clients and industry peers.

A large amount of document translation—this helps develop your Chinese-to-English and English-to-Chinese translation skills.

Good-quality managers and colleagues—most people have returned from overseas, so there are shared topics of conversation as well as similar levels of knowledge and education.

The clients are all wealthy—female employees may encounter harassment from clients, such as requests for their phone numbers or demands that they accompany them to AIT interviews. The boss may even tell you to go and not refuse the client.

An information session must be held every other weekend—this takes up the entire day. You receive overtime pay but no compensatory leave, and having to work again after only one day of rest can be quite exhausting.

The boss’s wife is difficult to get along with—she is a highly capable businesswoman, and you can learn a lot from her because she enjoys teaching people. However, she has a frightening temper, is very skilled at emotional manipulation, and often scolds people using personal attacks. If you are not easily affected emotionally, you should be able to overcome this issue.

A family business—the boss is a wealthy, generous, and easygoing person who pays well, but he follows his wife’s lead in everything else and has no decision-making power.

The boss’s wife strongly favors men over women. If your colleague happens to be male, even if he does nothing and constantly makes mistakes, she will not blame him and will only fault you for failing to handle things for your colleague.

The boss’s wife’s younger brother seems to be living off her. He probably has few accomplishments of his own and can only rely on his sister. Talking to him may involve a great deal of gender discrimination or threats toward employees. Unfortunately, he is the one who must approve HR matters and leave requests. He likes to ask intrusive questions and then report everything to the boss’s wife, which makes things very troublesome.