[Nine Years of Hard Study] Nine Years of Cold Windows, Night Rain, and LanternsAuthor: JEFFI CHAO HUI WU Time: 2025-6-23 Monday, 12:28 PM ········································ [Nine Years of Hard Study Under the Night Rain and Lamp] Since 1997, in countless early mornings, under the desk lamp, flipping through thick books and looking up dense English words, my world has been reduced to two things—dictionaries and perseverance. In the 1990s, there was no internet, no translation machines, and not even a complete bilingual customs book could be found. If you wanted to learn, you could only rely on self-translation. Thousands of pages of customs codes, I translate page by page, copying line by line. Is my English not good? Then I'll look up each word in the dictionary. Is there no ready-made material? Then I'll create a Chinese database myself. At that time, no one would have thought that these trivial and meaningless transcriptions would become the most critical bilingual query module in my original intelligent logistics system years later. During the day, I am an ordinary employee in the company, tasked with completing heavy workloads while supporting the family's finances; at night, I am a student at a night school, rushing between classes and desperately absorbing every piece of knowledge; in the late night, when everyone else is asleep, my battle has just begun. I only sleep three to four hours a day, and I have never felt苦. Because I know that if I don't take this path, I will have nothing. A thick "Australian Import Customs Code," over a thousand pages, entirely in English, with not a single complete Chinese reference. What to do? Translate, translating line by line, page by page, row by row... "These codes might be useful in the future?" "Why hasn't anyone made them into a bidirectional query database?" At that time, I didn't think too much; I just knew I had to tackle this tough challenge. It wasn't until many years later that the fully localized Chinese-English bidirectional query and Australian import customs codes became one of the core functions in my logistics system. All of this was pieced together bit by bit on that night under the desk lamp. But the road to night school was not smooth. I had never liked finance subjects, but unfortunately, failing the finance exam resulted in a one-year delay in graduation. A three-year program was stretched into four years. If it were an ordinary person, they might give up because of this, but I never let setbacks become the end. Since I have to wait a year to retake the exam, why not learn something else in the meantime? So, I enrolled in a computer IT network support course. As a result, this time, it turned into three years. One course after another, year after year, my night school journey continued, with logistics risk management, IT, customs declaration, market analysis... I have been studying for nearly ten years. Three years turned into four years, four years turned into nine years. I initially thought I was just getting a diploma in logistics management, but this path became longer and longer, ultimately becoming a turning point in my life. If I hadn't failed the finance exam back then and delayed my graduation, perhaps I wouldn't have studied IT; if there hadn't been IT courses, my logistics system might not have established a database and automated processing so early; if it weren't for the nine years of night school, the future "smart logistics empire" might not exist at all. It turns out that setbacks are not obstacles, but rather foreshadowing laid down by fate in advance. During those days, every day was a limit. During the day, I work 8-10 hours, bearing the economic pressure of the entire family. In the evening, I attend night classes, each lasting 2-3 hours, never absent regardless of wind or rain. Late at night, after my family falls asleep, I sit under the desk lamp reviewing, translating page by page, taking notes line by line. I go to bed around 1 AM and wake up at 4:30 AM, starting the cycle of the day all over again. I have only slept for 3.5 to 4 hours for a long time, but I never feel tired. It's not because my body isn't tired, but because I know that once I stop, I might never start again. "This road is not one that everyone can finish." "If I can persist in doing what others cannot, then I can achieve it." All of this is not just for obtaining a diploma, but to qualify myself for greater heights. If work has provided me with practical experience, then night school has given me the accumulation of knowledge. The combination of these two has ultimately shaped who I am today. The ten years of night school were forged through countless sleepless nights and the persistence to keep going despite numerous moments of wanting to give up. In the end, this road was not taken in vain! Source: http://www.australianwinner.com/AuWinner/viewtopic.php?t=696484 |