Mr.Pan(Beitou Market Shoes clinic No.146 )
Q: How long in this industry? Why to want to work in this industry?
A: teens began to do, about seventy years of it! Because I am already more than eighty years old. Began to learn by apprenticeship, apprentices three to four scholarship will, before working in a shoe factory, shoe repair after retirement to come to market. Eighty and two years beginning in shoe repair market, and now there are twenty-two years of.
Q: Shoe Repair need those tools?
A:Many hammer, screwdriver, needle and thread, glue and other tools: A.
Q: Which place to ask shoes easily broken?
A: Yes heel, because it is easy to wear, it is recommended not to suck the shoe repair.
Q: What is your business hours are a few to a few?
A: Yes, at 8:30 am and 4 pm
Q: What does this job occupational injuries?
A: easy to cut knife, a nail stuck to
Q: How much can fix every day about the shoes they have to do it the shoes?
A: Not necessarily, sometimes two, three pairs, sometimes a twenty pairs. Used to have, now older do not do.
Q: How to care for children should be the shoes? Will wear relatively long?
A: sneakers do not care it! But there is broken, you can still make possible repair.
Q: Will someone take the shoes to be repaired after forget to come and collect?
A: will be ah! Would require people to wear shoes to give. Now people have a bad memory, the money paid but still did not come up, but also posted the announcement, save only one month, if more than a month, it will dispose of the shoes.
Q: This is not a hard place to work? What occupational injuries?
A: No, like a habit. Often cut hand, still have to be careful. Will now have to bring along a ring sets, protected, so are less likely to cut.
Q: Now the green shoe is really green yet?
A: I do shoes are made of rubber, will not wrinkle, and very durable. Green shoes easy to break, but very light green shoes, but also good to wear. Hand-sewn shoes before slowly, one day only do twenty-three shoes, factory machinery to do the present day, you can do fifty or sixty pairs.
Experience Sharing
Today, with my teacher and other students went to visit a specialized shoe repair grandfather, he is currently doing work in Beitou shoe repair market. The shoemakers of people from teens to start doing this shoe repair industry, began to work in a shoe factory, when the Republic of eighty years of retirement, came to the market for everyone Beitou shoe repair, after our visit, I learned a lot of knowledge, like the shoes to be repaired before then, unlike now with glue stick, is to use the stitch seam, he also told us what kind of material is the most expensive, what kind of material the cheapest ........ knowledge, people really admire, and he also demonstrate how to live as we sew shoes, after he finished the demonstration I did not know how the shoe repair is a difficult thing, and now I'm on shoes deeper understanding of another.
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