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Working at an arts and cultural venue—and an international one at that.

For those who enjoy interacting with foreigners, this place is an absolute feast.

There are frequent recommendations for arts programs, as well as opportunities to collaborate with many large teams.

There are also opportunities to meet artists.

For people in the theater industry, it may be a stable and inspiring place (compared with taking on theater projects on a freelance basis).

The equipment is also fairly new; at least the office is beautiful.

There are vending machines, coffee machines, and a pantry inside the venue.

The air conditioning is cool, and although the equipment is not top-of-the-line, it is serviceable.

Almost everyone has dual monitors.

You have to take care of lunch yourself, and the area nearby is a food desert (and expensive). (You can also go to buy food at the Weiwuying Canteen.)

It doesn't feel like there's much room for growth (though it can also be described as stable).

Although there are ticket discounts, they only apply when the employee personally purchases programs hosted by the venue; there is no discount for companions.

If you work in a department that requires shifts, working hours are irregular and long during event periods.

Although the venue is beautiful, the distances between points are quite long, and the interior areas all look very similar, so it's easy to get lost.

This is about the service center's part-time work.

It is not a full-time position at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying),

but part-time work dispatched by Donghui Human Resources.

There are many advantages to the job.

Because it is an arts and cultural venue, the work environment is beautiful and pleasant.

You often come into contact with arts programs and events,

and can get first-hand information about upcoming programs.

The work mainly involves serving visitors,

answering questions about real-time on-site information,

ticket sales, venue tours, and check-in.

You can gain experience in many different areas,

and there is not much physically demanding work.

But the disadvantages are also very obvious.

As mentioned at the beginning,

because you are not an internal employee of Weiwuying,

many of the benefits Weiwuying provides to internal employees

are things you can only look at but cannot enjoy.

Typically, dispatched workers sign one-year contracts,

but in practice, they still look at the number of programs.

If there are many programs, things are fine and there are definitely enough working hours.

If there are not many programs, then you have to worry.

In the worst case, you may earn less than 20,000 NTD a month.

The funniest thing is that they treat part-time workers like disposable items.

Full-time employees can focus only on their own areas,

but part-time workers are expected to know how to do everything.

Because the service center is the venue's public face,

it basically has to open its counters when the venue opens

and only finish when the venue closes.

When you return to the office and see that the other departments

have already happily gone home,

you may feel quite unbalanced.

Full-time employees also often engage in internal political maneuvering.

As a part-time worker, the best thing you can do is quietly do your work and avoid getting involved.

Whenever something goes wrong, it will be the part-time worker's fault.

Full-time employees cannot afford to offend other full-time employees, but you are only a part-time worker.

As long as they casually give the team leader a small report,

the team leader will basically believe them,

because the team leader has no time to come to the service center and see what is happening in person.

So whatever the informant assigned by the team leader says is treated as the truth.

This is another aspect of the job that can make you feel powerless.

Finally, Weiwuying hires part-time workers

not because it actually lacks manpower,

but because it has surplus funds that have not been spent.

Many strange decisions are made internally,

and in the end, the people responsible for the venue's public image are the ones affected.

So when the funding runs out,

they start saying that working hours have been reduced because there is no budget.

According to former part-time colleagues, in the worst case,

some earned less than 10,000 NTD in a month.

When you put a lot of effort into learning all the intricacies of the job,

they will only say, “Thank you for your hard work,

but we have no budget, so you have to leave.”

This service center part-time job has many advantages,

but the disadvantages are also very obvious. That is all.

As an aside,

I heard that they recruited another batch of part-time workers this year,

once again because the budget for the second half of the year had not been spent.

These part-time workers will be let go again after this year is over.

Heh.