Q:Learning to make paper offerings
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Interviewer: How to make pitched paper offerings? Did you learn it by yourself?
Sing: The main thing is to memorize the size. Actually, it’s simple (getting a paper offering) … these spots (pointing at the newly made paper offerings), we had to draw the figures ourselves in the past. It’s different now. Everything is from mainland China. In the past we had to remember the positions and the size.
Learning how to produce paper offerings is not too difficult, but not easy either. The point is whether you have the commitment to learn and memorize all these things. Very often, after making those uncommon offerings, like motorbikes, probably we have to wait for two or three years …
Interviewer: One motorbike in every few years?
Sing: The most basic offerings are the apartments and gardens. Every set of paper offerings has such things. So we must know how to make them!
Analysis:
From the interview, we can learn that the most crucial aspect of learning how to make paper offerings is to remember the size. In other words, in order to produce a good paper offering, one has to carefully remember and measure the size which the customers want. Otherwise, a good paper offering cannot be produced.
Also, actually making paper offerings is not a low-skilled job. Skills are needed, and learning from a master is required to produce good paper offerings. Therefore, making paper offerings is not a low-skilled job, as many people perceive it to be.