Posted on 02/27/2020 5:53:39 PM PST by Zhang Fei
Mike Gecawicz is a student at the University of Maine, where he studies new media.
He spent his summer break in a headphones factory in Dongguan, China — a city of eight million sometimes called "the factory of the world."
Gecawicz's father works in headphones and headsets, and helped connect him with a factory owner in Dongguan. He spent a previous summer in the same factory as a camp counselor for the workers' kids.
"I'm not entirely sure why they wanted me to come and do this," Gecawicz said in an interview with Business Insider.
"Part of it for me was that most people will go through their entire life and never really know where their product comes from," Gecawicz said. "I wanted to do this as a way to get better exposure to things I don't know so well, and that most people in my position would never get to see."
He's found his summer of dealing with smog, trying solidified blood, and developing headphone models to be "enlightening and rewarding."
"I could recommend it to anybody," said Gecawicz, who is originally from Boston. "It's a great way to get perspective."
Gecawicz works at a headphone factory in Dongguan, an industrial city about 55 miles north of Hong Kong.
Dongguan is in the Pearl River Delta, a highly important trade and economic zone in Southern China. That region alone, with nearly 110 million residents, has a GDP of more than $1.2 trillion.
With eight million residents, Dongguan is one of the most important cities in the Pearl River Delta. One in five of the world's smartphones are made there.
Gecawicz said he decided to spend his summer in Dongguan to gain a better perspective of the products he uses every day — and the people who make them.
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Gecawicz's father works in headphones and headsets, and helped connect him with a factory owner in Dongguan. "I'm not entirely sure why they wanted me to come and do this," Gecawicz said in an interview with Business Insider.
from you previous statement it was your idea!
I had a neighbor that was a plumber/ attorney.
His father was a plumber and brought him to the construction site in the summer, he attended school for the rest of the year. He said it was S.O.P. for Irish kids in Chicago.
He was unhappy with being a low paid lawyer but did well as a plumber.
So he couldn’t find a mind-numbing boring job that pays didly squat in the US?
I knew a radiologist-general contractor.
The guy just loved making money.
“trying solidified blood,”
What’s that about?
It is the Business Insider, a far left site.
[It is the Business Insider, a far left site.]
https://labornotes.org/2019/07/amazon-warehouse-worker-why-im-taking-action
https://money.com/amazon-minnesota-workplace/
https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3065141/amazon-warehouse-work-environment-improved-air-conditioning
And Forbes, is now Chinese.
[And Forbes, is now Chinese.]
Wish he’d worked for those outfits that sell micro USB “data/charge” cables that only have two wires in ‘em instead of four...
Coagulated blood. Common in many cuisines.
He could have gone to Maine and had Blood Sausage which was common there until recently.
Investors Business Daily good site
Those jobs during school years are great; you can see how bad it is without an education, how good it can be with certain skills, and determine what exactly you want out of school - if you still think it is worth pursuing.
For all the snowflakes that think it is a wise thing to ‘find out where your items come from’-—go sign up to work on a USA dairy farm & milk 300 cows twice a day & feed them in between.
Then you will know that your milk doesn’t just “come from
Safeway”.
You will be safer here in the USA & not globe trotting.
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