7 Reasons To Buy Electronics From China
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It started in January of 2006 when I, Eddie Suarez, came up with an excellent idea. My cousin, who was working as a sales manager for HighPoint Technologies, sent me an email. The guy was listing all the reasons why I should be buying from them: They were the market leader, had over 20 years of experience, sold only premium products, etc. He was so convincing that even I was convinced to buy from him.
I decided to look at the site more closely and started falling in love with the products after I read the reviews. I started saving up for my purchase. I just had to sell my car to buy the TV I really wanted because I didn't want to take a chance on selling it and losing the money if the prices dropped. Then I realized that that wasn't a good idea either and that I might have to do something else instead. So I decided to ask for a raise.
I was making $50,000 or so and could not really afford to live in San Francisco on the amount of money I was making. So I thought I'd try my luck and go to my boss and ask for a raise. It was at that moment, when I was walking to my boss's office that I ran into some of his higher-ups. They asked me to come over to a meeting they were having to discuss the future plans of the company. There were a bunch of suits drinking coffee and talking about the urgent need for a fiscal year profit. So I asked for a raise. They said "no".
Instead, they offered me a promotion. They told me that they were paying me so much because they wanted me to steer the company in a direction that would enable them to make the most money from my work. Basically, I could be their puppet and they would make money by telling me what they wanted me to do. But I wasn't stupid. It was obvious to me that I had just been used. I went back to my boss to inform him that I didn't want the promotion. He looked at me as if I was crazy and asked me why. I told him that I knew what was wrong with the company and I didn't want to help them make money. I told him I wanted to stay in San Francisco and not move to the Corporate office in Cambridge, MA. He didn't agree that they were screwing me over, but he did agree to let me have time to think about it.
I went to a few other companies in the area looking for work. But none of the positions really made sense to me. So I decided to stay with HighPoint and work on a computer program I had set up in my spare time. I worked on the program for about 4 months, until 8/6/2006. I quit my job and took a minimum wage job at a local fast-food joint.
After a few years, I still wasn't happy. I knew that my next move would have to be in the direction I had originally wanted to go in. I wanted to get out of the technology industry. But I couldn't just give up on the idea of living in San Francisco because I loved the city so much.
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