The story of success, and, it still didn’t come overnight, from Yahoo! Taiwan, translated…
The twenty-nine year old, Hsin-Ching Chiu owns and operates a restaurant, when he was in the fifth grade, his father’s business ventures failed, the family owed a ton of debts, at the age of eleven, he’d entered into the workforce, became a “young assistant” to the head chef, he’d part-timed his way, before he’d enlisted into the armed services, he met a chef from Hong Kong who’d asked him to work as his assistant at Hongxi Hotel, he’d learned his cooking skills with the chef, and after he was relieved of duty from the armed services, he’d struck out on his own, opened up his own restaurants.
Chiu said, that before his fifth grade year, his family was rich, he would have a chauffeur, dropping him off, picking him up from school every single day, got everything he’d wanted, his father had made some bad investments, and the family went from riches to rags overnight. There were six children in his family, and the economic burdens were growing, heavier by the day, being the youngest of five children, his four older sisters had all excelled in school, he took an interest in cooking, and started his career off from being an apprentice, to a head chef.
Chiu recalled, that after he graduated from middle school, he’d wanted to go straight into the workforce, but the chef he’d apprenticed under advised him to get a high school level education at least, that way, nobody would look down on him. And so, he’d gotten into the higher education department of Taichung Agricultural Technical High School, part-timed during the days, studied in the evenings, in the early mornings, he’d waken up early, to make his newspaper routes, he’d gotten no more than three, to four hours of sleep every day.
Before he was to enlist in the service, he met a head chef from Hong Kong, who invited him to work with him, as his second assistant at the place of the previous president, Lee, and as he served his time in the armed services, there was a general who enjoyed the meals he’d made too, and every time the Department of Defense has a banquet, he’d be called upon, to cook; after he finished serving his army term, he was invited to become the personal cook for the former president, Chen, which he’d worked, for three years. The time, the skills he’d acquired, all became the specialty dishes of his brand new restaurant that he’d opened now.
Chiu now has four restaurants, with over one hundred employees, he said, as he started, he’d given himself too much credit, didn’t know how to communicate with his workers, and, a lot of his employees all quit. Later on, he’d learned, to introspect, examine his own behaviors, learned to be humble, and made donations in rice, cooking oils, to the social welfare organizations, or invited children from less fortunate backgrounds to come to dine at his restaurants for free, to share with them, his own life experiences.
“Change your attitude is better than changing your luck, or changing your names”, Chiu shared, life can’t be smooth sailing all the time, he’d encouraged the children, to not feel defeated, to not fear how they’re perceived by others, so long as one can adjust one’s own attitudes, work hard in life, then, anything can and will happen.
So, this man is speaking from his own experiences, he had an easy life as a child, then, everything changed, his family went broke, and, he’d learned to become self-reliant, found something he’s interested in doing, and, kept persisting in his own dreams, and in the end, he became, a huge success, that, is perseverance, and hard work!
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