Are You Fatigued? The Workers of the Technology Industries are Trading Their Lives in for Miracles

From the Front Page Sections, translated…

The technology industry is competitive globally, and the speed of reaction is absolutely necessary.  Taiwan, being such a small island, but it had amazing progress.  The elites in the industry worked their lives away, took their teams, kept moving forward, but, recently, these “new elites” of the technology industry are almost “extinct”, but, the fresh new technological workers are being read up on.

At the end of last year, the CEO of Shuo-He, Chen died of tuberculosis, awhile ago, the CFO of ASUS, Chang, committed suicide, the honorary CEO, Zuo of Mao-Di died of illness, and yesterday, the sudden death of Rui-Hsu Technology’s CEO, Lee died suddenly.  The exacerbation of the mental wellbeing of these elitist members of the technology industries are worsening.

The Elites of the Technology Industries are Ill in the Body and Mind

Lee was the legend in the field of chips designs.  He’d not had any clue of how the designs of an electric board worked when he’d entered into the field, but, he’d managed to write up the world’s first three-in-one ether internet chip, the legendary “Crab Board”, and, it’d become, one of the pillars that kept the company running smoothly.

The CFO of ASUS, Wei-Ming Chang is a Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes in the mind of his cohort, but, nobody knew, that he had long-term depression, that he was on medication.  After he’d died, the CEO of ASUS sent an e-mail to everybody in the company, stating how sad he was, of Wei-Ming Chang’s death.  Ji-Ren Chang started working hard in the age of compact discs, he was in charge of a company that got sued to almost bankruptcy by Phillips, he’d turned the company into a plasma screen company run by solar power, and his success came from endless days and nights’ worth of research and development, working hard, to get the fundings.

When Their Bodies Started Objecting, that’s When They Knew They’re Overworked

Although all of these elites are working in different field of expertise, they’re all examples of those who worked hard, to put the technologies in Taiwan on the map.  Taiwan is a miracle made possible by the technology developments, and, this miracle still didn’t come suddenly, a lot of time was spent, as well as the sacrifices of the time with families, and personal recreation too.

The famous, Lee, from the technology industry, two years ago, was diagnosed with lymphoma, on his weblog, he wrote, “Turns out, everybody IS created equal in front of cancer.”  “I’d worked day and nights, and I’d enjoyed sending on e-mails in the middle of the nights, to check who’s still working”, until his body started objecting, that, was when he realized, that he was about to get crushed by the pressures of his own lifestyle.

Last year, the CEO from Shuo-He, Chen died of the accumulation of working too hard, it only took one year with the discovery of his illness to his death.  He’d once stated, when doctors announced, “You’re really ill!”, at the same time, it’d dawned on me, that “I had really overused my body for the last seventeen years, in the future, I must, slowly, pay for this debts that I owed to my body, for not treating it well from before.”

These heartfelt words of Ji-Jen Chen pointed out the spirit to which the workers in the technology industries are putting out, and, the debts owed to their body, they ended up paying, with their lives.

So, because you need to innovate, develop the new technologies, and you think you’re still young and able-bodied, that, was why you’d, strained your bodies too much, and, in the end, you’d neglected to hear the warning signs that your bodies sending you, and, it was, too late, when you finally listened!  The sorrows of being a work-a-holic…sigh………

no, NOT my photograph…