My life

Post Swedish Match

My contract with Swedish Match ended January 31st, 2004, after seven and a half happy years with the company. They had offered me a good appointment in Sweden, but I wanted to stay for some more time in Valencia.

However, my time with Swedish Match was still not completely over. During the past years, the importance of Arenco Shanghai had been growing, due to the low costs in China and the huge market there. The responsable for Arenco Shanghai wanted a website - and they employed me through a human resource company for a period of three months at 75% working time. It was a hard work, but when the contract ran out, the website was also finished.

The company had not thought of that somebody should handle the maintenance of the website and they also wanted to add more pages. So, once again they employed me during the whole month of june. During this time, I also converted the Arenco Packovation (another company within the Arenco group) website to ASP and transferred it to the Swedish Match servers. In June, my manager went to Sweden permanently to work in the head office in Stockholm.

I was already looking fo work in Valencia, when the Chinese production manager of Arenco Shanghai surprisingly called me to ask me if I would be interested in working for a month in Madrid. The work was about dismantling a production line of an international makeup group to take it to one of its factories in China. I took on organizing the whole thig, arranging with accomodation for my six Chinese colleagues, ordering containers, plaaning the loading patterns in the containers and finally handling all the contacts with the our client.

Centro Bunka, being unemployed and a new work

Once finished the work in Madrid, I returned to Valencia amd started looking for a new job. While doin so, I designed the websites for Centro Cultural Bunka and Hanky Bouquet and also made a platform, on which all my website projects are currently based. I enrolled in the unenployment fund and it did not take me long to figure out that the money they paid me wouldn't last long. At the end of October, with the help of some good contacts, finally I found a new job as engineer in a smaller company dedicated at making hidraulic presses, etc. for the automotive industry.

Loading work below a blue sky in Madrid

My first machine designed with Solid Edge

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