The BusinesStory

The photo below is a memory when I am working and 'wandering' to the city of Padang. I am working in the workshop belongs to my uncle. Year period 2007-2009. Me and My Uncle. This job is tough. To get the wages of 50.000,- Rupiah per day I have to work patching and installing all types of vehicle tires. As the truck, cars, public transport, motorcycle, and bicycle. The work starts from 08.00 am to 19.00 o'clock in the night. When a lot of work, I can get overtime money 50.000,- Rupiah (About 3 Dollars more). (Note: Exchange Rate 1 Dollar = 14,000 Rupiah). So total income will I get 100.000,- Rupiah per day. Working nonstop from 08.00 till 10.00 o'clock in the night!! Income 100.000,- Rupiah it will I earn if the workshop many jobs (order). If the work (order) a little then I only get a salary worth about 30,000,- Rupiah per day. Sometimes I get a wage of 25,000,- Rupiah per day. The wages that I get it is from the results...

The person who is wearing a white t-shirt on the left (see photo), is my self in the year 2001. I was a troubled young man. At that time I was often drunkenness, being members of the gang, and lots of time wasting (unemployed). Almost every night I always hung out with friends at a nightclub. This labile period started in 1998. All my behavior at the time was to free mental stress. I am in a stress at that time. The cause is because I (which is still a teenager) has been buffer the economy of family. Amid the pressures of life and family economic are conditions. Severe due to termination of employment. (monetary crisis Indonesia in the year 1998). The burden of life when it is, it feels too hard for me that is still very young. All of it has made me stressful, so I'm looking for 'runaway' by way of drinking liquor. Post-riot in May 1998, the Indonesian economy fell. The price of the goods and all other necessities soaring up to 5 times. Severe condi...