by Wendela Elsen | Apr 2, 2021 | Taiwan stories
I always think of my time in Taiwan with a smile on my face. It was our first overseas posting and definitely a very good one. I knew very little about Taiwan before we went. It turned out I wasn’t the only one. Many conversations with friends and acquaintances went...
by Wendela Elsen | Mar 18, 2021 | Taiwan stories
My son was one year old and I had just left my job, that required me to travel frequently, for a role in a local Taiwanese HR consulting firm. I was hired as the only non-Taiwanese in an office of about 80 staff and my job was to penetrate the foreign business...
by Wendela Elsen | Feb 19, 2021 | Taiwan stories
We had been in Taipei for two years and I was working as Regional HR manager for one of the Big Four professional services firms. My British boss, Jim, was unpredictable and could be hugely unpleasant but as he was traveling 95% of the time, it was bearable and I was...
by Wendela Elsen | Jan 26, 2021 | Taiwan stories
Is there ever a good time to fall pregnant when you are a career-minded woman? I had seen several of my friends, when I still lived back home in the Netherlands, become pregnant, have babies and go back to work. Their stories were not very encouraging. The struggle...
by Wendela Elsen | Dec 11, 2020 | Taiwan stories
I had landed on my feet. After about seven months in the local Taipei office of one of the Big Four accounting firms, working in a complete Taiwanese environment without speaking the language, I had moved on to the Asia Pacific Regional office in the role of Regional...
by Wendela Elsen | Dec 8, 2020 | Taiwan stories
After about six months in my new job in Taipei it was Chinese New Year, in February. This meant that the office would close for a whole week! I was hired locally and that meant that I had no right to annual leave in the first year. As a European, I found that...
