刊登日期：2004年04月24日 文章主題：Hong Kongers turn to fortunetelling
HONG KONG - Hong Kong's biggest bank gave Alic Pang a choice: Take a buyout to quit or face deep cuts in his benefits.
The 14-year employee decided to leave HSBC Holdings to pursue a new livelihood the ancient practice of Chinese fortunetelling, guided by the placement art of feng shui, astrology and other factors such as the exact time of a client's birth.
Pang had been taking fourtunetelling classes for a few months whten HSBC offered him severance pay two year ago.
Now 46, he is still studying under his feng shui master, Au Chung-tak, and has a job helping Au establish a job helping Au establish a fourtunetelling training centre. Pang hopes someday to teach full time, passing on knowledge to other suffering a career crisis.
"Many people in their 40s face the risk of being laid off," Pang says. "We hope to introduce them the true concepts of this Chinese art and train them to become consultants."
