Most parents would want to see their children working as professionals after graduating from university. However, there are some who choose to take a different path but yet are also able to earn a high salary.
A young graduate from University Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) recently made the headlines after it was revealed that he earned a 6-figure salary just by selling mee sotong at a humble roadside stall.
23yo M’sian graduate earns 6-figure salary by selling mee sotong
Speaking to Sinar Harian, Syed Muhammad Hafiz Seeni Mohd said he has been helping his father out at the stall since he was nine and that the recipe was his father’s brainchild.
The 23-year-old, who holds a bachelor’s degree in applied sciences (bioindustry technology), said him witnessing how much his father struggled to provide for the family was what spurred him to turn to technology to boost the business.
Seeing my father struggle running a roadside business to support the family has driven me to change our family’s fortunes by transforming the street food business system into retort technology.
“Although the business was severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, it was what led me to have the idea of selling instant mee sotong and deciding to give it a shot,” he said.
With just his savings and income from selling mee sotong in the roadside stall, carnivals, operating a kiosk near UKM and receiving business grants from entrepreneurship agencies, Syed slowly began to build his own company named Seeni Food & Beverages Sdn Bhd.
With the help of retort technology, Syed was able to let customers have a taste of his father’s mee sotong without having to travel outside of their home state to do so.
“I did not expect this business model to receive tremendous support from customers. But now, I have successfully introduced instant mee sotong and registered by business under the UMK Entrepreneurship Institute (UMKEI),” he said.
He also added that he aims to sell the instant mee sotong to countries outside of Malaysia such as South Korea.
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