Chapter 001: I Want to Hold On Too
I finally made up my mind to pick up the pen again. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
I'm 31 years old, I can't do anything, and my mother always sighs when she sees me, and she talks all day about who and who's making money, and asks me to do this job and then asks me to do that job. Eight years after graduating from college, I changed jobs nine times at her suggestion and coercion, the longest of which was just over a year.
Although my father didn't say anything, he always looked disappointed when he looked at me, which made me afraid to see him.
My wife also quarrels with me every day and asks me to pay her 2,000 yuan a month, otherwise she will not have any sense of security. But I really haven't made any money over the years, and I pay a lot of money for my family's expenses. I have a foreign debt of more than 70,000 yuan, and the interest is more than 1,000 yuan per month, and if I give her another 2,000 yuan, I will soon have to run away.
It's been really annoying these days, I don't know what to do, and I don't know the way forward. It's no wonder that my wife doesn't feel secure, and I don't have any sense of security myself.
In the past eight years, I have written songs, written novels, done design, installed advertisements, ran business, worked as a mechanic, entered workshops, delivered couriers, and now I am moving bricks on the construction site. Moving bricks is one of my highest-paying jobs, with a salary of 3,000 yuan a month. My wife's online shopping, plus the child's milk powder money, and more than 1,000 interest on the credit card every month, can still have two or three hundred left after payment.
In addition, this job does not require much mental energy, and I can write songs and novels in my spare time. Occasionally, if I am lucky, I can write a good song and earn some extra money, which is why I was able to persist in this job for more than a year under my mother's daily nagging.
But my mother and wife didn't know about me, and they didn't know that I owed so much money outside. My mother always said that if she knew you could move bricks, she shouldn't have let you go to college in the first place. My wife always felt faceless, saying that a college student in my house had become a brick movers. But although I was confused, I insisted on not changing again. One of my friends who wrote novels with me at the beginning is now a god who earns millions a year, and in his words, he just wants to persevere. Only by identifying a goal and persevering in pursuit can it be possible to succeed.
I think he has a point, and he's a good example of that in his own right. But when I told him I was going to keep my job as a porter, he didn't say a word to me.
I didn't expect that even he didn't understand me, and maybe the only one who understood me was my boss, a fat-faced contractor. He always said that the young man is good, and one person can keep up with the progress of three bricklayers, which is really good, and I will give you a salary increase when I go back. But he has been saying this for more than two months, the house is almost finished, and my salary is still 3,000.
Probably he also saw that I was a person who didn't know how to ask and didn't know how to refuse. But I made up my mind, if the construction site has not been raised after the salary I will change the boss, anyway, after more than a year of exploration and persistence, I can now be regarded as a qualified brick mover, according to those bricklayers, I can top three small workers alone. With such brilliant achievements, do you need to be afraid that there will be no bricks to move.
Just when the construction site was about to be completed, the boss finally remembered his promise a few months ago, sent me a bonus of 2,000 yuan, patted me on the shoulder and smiled: "Xiao Li, you have worked hard in the past few months, take this 2,000 yuan, go buy some delicious food to replenish your body, and in a few days, the villa by the West Lake in the city will still need your great contribution." There is nothing to say about the treatment, 4000 per month, and a bonus at the end of the year. ”
The boss thought that I should be grateful to him and heartfelt to him, you must know that the big job is only 7000 a month, and I can get 4000 for a small job, which seems to be a lot in the eyes of the boss.
If he had told me this two months ago, I would have been moved and followed him with joy, but unfortunately it was too late. Since I told my family that my boss wanted to give me a salary increase, I haven't seen it for a long time. In the past two months, my mother's nagging and my wife's noise have already exhausted me physically and mentally, and I don't want them to say that I am useless.
So I put 2,000 yuan in my pocket, stood up and said apologetically to the boss: "I really need money, but 4,000 yuan a month, I can't even afford to support my wife and children, so I'm sorry." ”
In the past, I was not so bold, according to my previous practice, I definitely pushed the money back to the boss, but now I have gradually become the master who recognizes money but not people. I found a reason for myself, that is, a few months ago, I said that I would give me a salary increase but did not increase, at the rate of 1,000 a month, I still lost 2,000 yuan from you.
The boss obviously didn't expect me to take the money and refuse him, he looked at me stunned for a while, straightened his face, and shouted: "You can't just leave, at least you have to wait for me to find a new job before leaving, you can't be so irresponsible." ”
I knew that the boss was ready to drag it out again, so I made up my mind not to listen to him anymore, shook my head and said, "If I don't make money quickly, the family will be scattered." ”
The boss finally got angry and yelled: "Are you going to sit on the ground and start the price?" Okay, I'll give you 5,000 a month, and when I recruit a small worker, you will get out of me immediately." ”
Originally, I usually feel embarrassed when I see others angry, but this time I made up my mind to fight for money, and I whispered: "I know my ability, one person can take three small jobs, even if you get double the salary, it is not too much." "I'm not exaggerating, the boss's subordinates, including me, have a total of 10 big workers, 7 small workers, when the other six small workers are busy, one person is responsible for one big worker, and I and the boss are responsible for four big workers, and the boss's fat body can't help much at all, most of them are doing it, and even sometimes work overtime.
"Double the salary?" The boss laughed angrily: "You really dare to think that I dare to give you a monthly salary, you go to the construction site outside to see, which small worker can receive more than 3,000 yuan a month now?"
"But they are 150 a day, 4500 a month!"
"What about 4,500? If you can't get it, you can't count it as income!" With the shrewdness of the boss, he has already calculated this account, others work no more than 20 days a month, and he takes on any work because the monthly salary of the worker is calculated, so the work usually does not stop.
Probably seeing that I had made up my mind, the boss was silent for a while before he said softly: "The construction period of the next construction site will be about three or five months, I will give you 10,000 yuan first, and the salary is still 3,000 a month, you should know that if I give you a salary of 6,000 a month, then I don't have to recruit people in the future." ”
Although I knew that this was the boss's soft means, I nodded silently when I saw that the boss seemed to be quite sincere. I'm not a bad guy, and if I wasn't too short of money, I wouldn't even be where I am today. The boss also has some truth in what he said, if you give me 6,000 a month, not to mention that he will be difficult to hire a small worker in the future, even a big worker is estimated to be unbalanced. After all, they are only 7,000 a month, and they are only 1,000 yuan short of small workers, which does not reflect the value of the word "big" at all.