2 Months No Days Off

At the end of 2019, our new liquid lab company made a sudden office move for several reasons. The mistake we made was that we're moving while the new office was still being built and at the same time the old office rental contract had expired. 

Since the beginning after we made a big profit in previous years, we had planned for a long vacation rest at the end of 2020. We had also planned to use the company's savings as a monthly salary and also planned if there was a worst-case short-term scenario happened. 

The company knew this move was very risky but we didn't realize that it could end very badly beyond our expectations and also in the long term scale.

Right in between our vacations, COVID cases increased to the point of national lockdown, and as a result, our company panicked a bit. Until the end of 2020, we could not go back to work because of the strict lockdown regulations, and the construction of a new office was delayed. 

Inevitably we ended up relying on all company savings as employee salaries. On the other hand, we cannot produce vape liquid at all because it's not a primary need plus vape users are also decreasing. Because the income crisis is very minimal plus the company's savings are also running low, we are forced to do production secretly on a small scale in one of our colleague's houses. 

We couldn't avoid the problems when local residents realized our crowding activity and they would send the authorities to disperse us, causing us to often move from one colleague's house to another. 

Long story short, our liquid lab was still able to survive with the help of bank loans plus minimal production, and various internal dramas that were passed. At the end of 2021, we switched completely to becoming a live streamer agency in TikTok selling various types of vape and liquid vape. 

The income earned at that time was enough to fulfill our needs, but not enough to pay the loans yet. Until mid-2022 when covid cases had become endemic, we immediately took advantage of the momentum by moving directly to the new office that had been built and pursuing even bigger targets to cover losses. 

I still remember in more than two months we chased the production target and during that time we all working non-stop with no days off. Liquid vape production and online marketting was carried out as much as possible by desperately risking everything through capital assistance from various online loans, assuming that even if the COVID case increased again at least we could profit from the sales. 

Fortunately in the end of 2023, everything went well as planned, we managed to cover all losses, pay all debts, and even get more profit than we ever had before. But it all became a lesson for us that when running a company, it's okay to take big risks but you should not take too many reckless actions, always plan everything on a large scale, keep the consistency and the hard work.




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