If you want to gain experience in foreign-owned, privately owned, and private-sector companies, this book offers a different perspective and a different interpretation. In particular, it explores the tangled interpersonal relationships within companies and the emotions that intertwine between people, both openly and behind the scenes.
The first protagonist is assigned to serve as general manager of an acquired company. He faces all kinds of hardships involving work, life, love, relationships, and cultural clashes, before finally leaving in disappointment. The second protagonist rises from obscurity to become an important figure whom others look up to, only to end up unemployed. This series of compelling stories covers the bitter and sweet experiences of marriage, the workplace, and romance.
The novel asks what we work for: dreams, ideals, money, women or men, love, status? Everyone has different motivations and different ways of achieving their goals, so naturally their results differ too. But effort is not always proportional to the outcome. At least, that's how it is at certain stages of life. As the ancients said, good people don't live long, while bad people can plague the world for a thousand years. Perhaps there's some truth in that.
This book is divided into two parts. This is Part One, consisting of Volumes One, Two, and Three.
Writing is hard work, I look forward to your return visit to my beloved farmhouse little lucky charm.