Origins
Posted on September 23, 2007
Early life
I was born and raised in the South East Asian country called Burma (a.k.a. Myanmar) which is one of the poorest nations in the world. After finishing high school in Burma, I came to United States alone at the age of 20 in year 2000. My girlfriend of two years, Aye Mon Swe, from Burma also came to U.S. and we got married in 2002. Then, she gave birth to a baby boy in 2003.
Career
My first job was a gas station attendant and I worked overnight shifts. Then, I got the computer server quality testing job at a computer company in San Jose. I also attended evening classes and online classes at Ohlone College while I was working full time. Even though I worked so hard and was a dedicated employee for about 6 years at that computer company, I got laid from that job in 2007.
I founded a dating site called SushiDating.com with just $1,000 from my one bedroom apartment while I was out of work. It took me about 2 months to create this website. But, it was not an easy thing to start a business alone with very low budget. I am the lone web designer, the sole web administrator and the only person to develop and execute marketing plans. While building this site, there were times that I worked so many hours non-stop. And, there were nights that I did not even sleep at all. My wife became worried and asked me to take some rests.
In the end, I could successfully launch the dating site in mid 2007. And, a couple of weeks later, I got one year temporary job at another tech company. Since this is just a one year temp job, I might have to find another job again in 2008. I am just praying that this dating site will be so successful before that time so that I do not need to look for job again. But, no matter what happen, this website only cost me $15 a month for web hosting fees so I will keep it open and will make it successful.
This is my life so far. I will write more blogs later on when things progress.
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Very Inspirational ! Keep it up.