[Life] The workplace is unforgiving, nine exams lead to failure.

Author: JEFFI CHAO HUI WU

Time: 2025-7-21 Monday, 9:37 PM

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[Life] The workplace is unforgiving, nine exams lead to failure.

Having lived in Sydney for many years, 2005 was a year of great setback in my life. Don't think that the workplace in the West is all that peaceful; where there are people, there is darkness. In February of that year, I was completely ostracized in the workplace. It wasn't a matter of ability—I completed half of the entire team's workload by myself, with efficiency far exceeding the norm. However, because I didn't "work overtime" and "didn't fit in," I became the target of criticism, was marginalized, excluded, and ultimately expelled.

This is not the first time I have been rejected by the system. Before this, I had been studying hard at night school for nine consecutive years. I worked during the day and studied until the early hours of the morning, tackling everything from language, customs regulations, and international trade terms to creating my own terminology database. I painstakingly went through every word and sentence, all for one goal: to obtain a formal customs certification and gain the qualification to enter the formal system.

I took the exam nine times. In the first two years, I took it twice a year, and then once a year thereafter. I never gave up even once. Until the ninth time— I encountered obvious unfair treatment. I knew it wasn't due to my lack of ability, but rather the entire system, from the rules to the institutions, from management to the scoring mechanism, was resisting someone who did not fit its rhythm.

At that moment, I was not angry, but completely disheartened. I gave up the customs declaration certificate and also gave up night school. I finally understood that the rules of this world were not meant for me. I no longer applied for any jobs, nor did I submit any resumes. I only did one thing: rewrite my own system.

February 2005: The Starting Point!

I began to build my own structure. Not a company, not a project, but a complete set of rhythmic logic. Not for making money, but for survival.

April 2005: QR code + barcode inventory system.

I have no team, no developers. Just a computer, a printer, and a barcode scanner. I built my own inventory logic, inventory tracking, and dynamic allocation system using Excel. Coding, scanning, and inventory counting are all automatically integrated. Ten years later, this system became one of the underlying architectures of my intelligent logistics system.

January 2005: The inaugural issue of "Australian Rainbow Parrot" quarterly published.

With me are my family, without a formal team. Starting in February, we completed the selection, editing, typesetting, printing, and mailing together. The first issue consists of two thousand copies, covering Australia, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and mainland China. This publication has no endorsements, yet it has been permanently collected by the National Library of Australia, the Beijing Modern Literature Museum, and the Hong Kong Public Library. It is not because I am a writer, but because I created a structure.

July 2005: Registered logistics company

No warehouses, no fleet; I coordinate multiple third-party resources nationwide to complete delivery, customs clearance, and settlement. I established a system: I have no assets myself, yet I control all nodes. This is the first generation of the "virtual logistics system," which predates the industry's "overseas warehouse" mechanism by ten years.

Make every effort to build the Australia Changfeng Information Network, established in July 2004, and launch two future national-level information platforms. These two platforms not only provide classified information and business connections but also come with a forum structure, content filtering mechanism, and merchant credit system. They have been operating stably for nearly twenty years, with an annual visit volume exceeding 100 million.

This year, I have nothing. No customs declaration certificate, no sense of belonging in the workplace. I only have one thing: a bit of clarity after being abandoned by the system. I did not make a fuss, nor did I protest. I only built my own components of civilization, one by one, in the corner.

So you ask, are these startups? Are they projects? Are they coincidences? No. This is just me, an ordinary person who has been rejected by the system nine times, using all my rationality and structure to turn myself into a system.

It’s not to prove I’m right, but I no longer believe that the world has the ability to judge me. At that moment, I decided: If the workplace and the rules do not allow me, then I will create my own world!

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