It’s a decades-old company and a large enterprise with several hundred employees.

A traditional, system-driven industry; working hours are based on responsibility; salary depends on luck; you can learn about different fields, such as working as a cleaner or newspaper delivery person.

Some colleagues are crazy, others are sick; supervisors just talk and draw rosy pictures for you to swallow. It can train your self-cultivation and emotional management.

It’s suitable for natural actors who are good at flattering supervisors—you’ll do very well here.

1. You have to sneak into universities to hand out flyers, write on blackboards, and organize lectures.

2. Related to the above, you have to provide catering for lectures and pay upfront yourself (NT$100 per student; 40 students means NT$4,000). You won’t be reimbursed until several weeks later.

2. Related to the above, organizing lectures means playing cat and mouse with campus security, because schools won’t lend you classrooms. (During my first week, I was scolded by a school officer and kicked out.)

I urge people with a strong sense of justice not to work in school-channel sales.

3. During the General Scholastic Ability Test, Comprehensive Assessment Program, and any civil-service examinations, you may be forced to work as an unpaid temporary worker handing out DMs.

4. I heard from senior employees that performance bonuses used to be better, with commissions reaching double-digit percentages; now they’re a miserably low single-digit percentage.

5. They keep shouting about the declining birth rate and asking everyone to share the burden, but apparently revenue hasn’t fallen.

6. The company’s upper management is also similar to that of a family business, but it’s hard to hear any gossip.

7. The new-hire mentorship system can’t really be called good or bad, because it depends entirely on who your mentor is and whether they hold back information.

8. There are tons of meaningless meetings. If you don’t meet your targets, you have to go up and give a review; I heard that in the past, it had to be written instead. (I’d rather write it than be publicly tried onstage.)

9. I completely don’t understand how supervisors make decisions. Today they say we’re going to the North Pole, so we go to the North Pole; tomorrow they say we’re going to the South Pole, so we go to the South Pole. You need excellent survival and adaptability skills.

10. During the interview, they said most colleagues were around the same age (almost none over 30). After joining, I realized what they really meant was that the retention rate was too low.

11. You have to bring your own toilet paper. Your coworkers will hear the sounds when you poop, unless you never poop at work.

12. Your self-esteem is often diminished here. Although the scolding doesn’t reach the level of personal attacks, you will be subjected to PUA-style manipulation, such as being told, “With your abilities, you’re already doing pretty well here. You definitely wouldn’t earn this much elsewhere, and the work would be harder.” Or supervisors will compare you unfavorably: “Look at so-and-so—they made **ten-thousand in sales this month and even came in to work overtime on weekends to serve students,” and so on.

13. Supervisors will lead others in isolating new hires they dislike. Group-work schedules are not transparent, creating information gaps that make it impossible to coordinate work.

Eventually, you’ll realize that you’ve been marked for elimination. If you’re not suited to staying, you’ll quietly leave on your own.

But the upside is that if you stop caring about everything, the company is reluctant to spend severance money to ask you to leave.