Personal Blog of Carl Pei

I’m back in China and things are starting to really make sense this time…

Background

After finishing High School in Sweden, I decided to take a break from studying. Alone, I go to the small seaside city Zhuhai in the South of China in search for myself. There I meet a lot of new and interesting friends from many walks of life and traveled around nearby places such as Hong-Kong, Macau, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. To survive, I had some money from a website sale (mid- $x,xxx USD) I did only months before the trip started, small monthly revenue (mid- $xxx) from advertising on my websites and later started experimenting with export during my four months in Zhuhai. Although sometimes life was hard living in the small dark solo apartment, these were the best four months of my life.

Round Two

I go back to Sweden briefly, and since December last year, I’m back in Zhuhai. Between the time I arrived and now has been spent on expending the export business. It’s now more organized and efficient, saving me time. I’ve also found ways to do the same things for less money, increasing my revenue. The workload was pretty heavy and monotonous, so I’ve now hired an employee to take care of the non-creative elements of the business (eg. packing, forms).

This second round, I haven’t had the chance to take care of myself as much in terms of meeting new friends and working out, and hope to change that soon.

The Goal

The goal is to establish a good, steady income for myself while I continue studies. This means that I’ll need to find loyal, smart and hardworking people here taking care of things on a long term over here while I’m over there. I’ll only be able to travel back and forth 4-6 times a year. This is currently proving to be quite hard, but there is still time left before I leave in August.

However, this is an important part of my life and I must get this rolling. With this money, I would no longer be the “average poor student” and can concentrate on more important things while in school.

The Blog

In this blog I’ll write about my life and the things I do, learn, experience and think. This blog will now carry a much more personal tone than previously and I hope it will grow together with me.

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