Personal experience, tell the truth, if you are offended, bear with me.

Second, unavoidable problems

In my eighth year working in Beijing, my girlfriend came back from Australia to marry me. Then we were faced with the question of whether she would go back to Beijing or me to Melbourne.

This question has been thinking about it for nearly a year, and it is still difficult to make a decision. At that time, I was working as an after-sales service engineer for a multinational company known for producing large-scale heat exchange equipment and industrial fans, and my annual salary plus bonuses and travel subsidies was about 100,000 yuan after tax. In addition to the various benefits stipulated by the state, the unit has purchased health insurance for each employee, and when we are sick, more than 90% of the medical expenses can be reimbursed. In addition, the unit will also arrange an outbound trip to Southeast Asia every year, and individuals do not need to pay a penny for it.

At that time, the copyright of my first online novel was also sold to the starting point for 90 yuan per thousand words, and I could get a monthly manuscript fee ranging from 5,000 to 6,000 yuan from the website. Together, my annual income has exceeded 150,000. Based on the ratio of Australian dollars to renminbi at that time, the annual net income after tax was estimated to be 25,000 Australian dollars. (Note: These figures are not written to show off, but to compare them with the income of the average Australian in the following content)

In December 2004, I submitted my immigration application to the Australian Office of Living in Shanghai. My father was very upset when he learned the news, and after he retired, he worked as a doctor in a private clinic in Tong County. The reason why I came to Beijing is because I like the feeling of being a lively family. And my going to Australia means that his efforts are completely in vain, even if I develop smoothly outside, I can't guarantee that I will celebrate the New Year with him, my mother, and my younger brother during the Spring Festival every year.

We sat together and talked for a long time, and I told him that I wanted to go outside and see what the world was like out there. "When I came to Nanjing from my hometown, I found that the living conditions in Nanjing were better than those in my hometown. I went from Nanjing to Beijing and found that Beijing was bigger and more prosperous than Nanjing. Melbourne is closer to the West, perhaps more prosperous, and life is easier to ......"

That's probably why I convinced my father. Back then, I never told him about the trivial things I experienced after graduation.

Those experiences are like a roller coaster ride that suddenly rises above the clouds and suddenly turns sharply. The official statement is that at that time, China's economy was vigorously promoted by a certain prince to achieve a successful soft landing, as a small citizen of Shengdou, my feeling is that there is a "close contact" with the earth, and the nose is down.

In '95, I graduated from university and went to report for a large state-owned enterprise in Beijing. On the third day of the report, I and more than 50 other new blood were transported by a commuter truck to Bishan Village, Jixian County, to contribute to the "9511" project of the Ministry of Electric Power.

From the beginning of August to the middle of February of the following year, I worked there for half a year and twelve days. The explanation for the term "9511" is that after November 95, Beijing will no longer limit power. In order to achieve this goal, we worked 12 hours a day in the hardest time.

Because I was young, I didn't know what it meant to be tired, and I didn't know that the other reason for the hard work was that I had a bonus every month from now on. It's not much, but I've been able to be completely independent and no longer burden my parents.

One night on the top of the boiler at a height of 87 meters above the ground, I was holding a walkie-talkie in one hand and waiting for my companion's command from the main control room. Suddenly, the signal from the walkie-talkie woke me up, and I looked down and sweated.

At the end of '95, the congenitally deficient power plant was connected to the grid for the first time, more than two months later than expected. When he was handed over to the factory, all the engineering staff, including us newcomers, cheered loudly. We congratulated ourselves on finally having the opportunity to rest for a few days, but no one expected it to be so long.

Beginning in '96, there was a sudden oversupply of electricity that was not enough. As a result, the state began to compress power construction projects. So, as I had just cheered for no more overtime, I suddenly realized that not only did I not need to work overtime, but I also didn't need to go to work. As a result, there is no bonus column on the monthly payroll, and because the unit is facing a major reform, the personnel department "has no time" to make a salary list for us new graduates, and we still take the monthly salary of interns, and we receive 256 yuan and 7 cents per month.

In '96 in Beijing, the income of less than 300 yuan was certainly stretched thin. Many colleagues began to think of a way, some of them were transferred to the relationship, and some took the initiative to resign. Personally, I found a job as a tutor in my spare time, riding my bicycle every Wednesday and Friday from Guangbo College to Panjiayuan, rain or shine.

I always feel that it is easy to get through difficult times. "Isn't the country still developing?" A few technicians sat in one place, cheering themselves up. Finally, in the middle of '96, my department finally took on some small projects, and we were finally able to stop working part-time, and our total monthly income returned to about 1,000 yuan.

In '97, my department got a big project by virtue of its relationship, and all the staff were jubilant. But at the same time, there was news from above that the power plant would not be built for several years.

Around that year, a policy was formulated to "grasp the big and let go of the small", and the mother's unit happened to be among the ones that was put into the list, and it was resold to individuals at a price less than one-tenth of the total assets. Immediately, all employees were laid off, and her pension was left unpaid.

When I returned home for the Spring Festival, I patted my chest and assured my mother that my income had exceeded 3,000 yuan, which was enough to take part of it to support her in the elderly. But I couldn't see a smile in her eyes. What she is distressed about is not the pension of more than 200 yuan per month, but she is sad that her work in the first 30 years has been done in vain. She has worked for the country for more than 30 years, often working overtime when she was young, and at that time, the state told them that it was for the "four modernizations". She had given it, but everything she had given was swept under the table.

That year, I remember the saying, "Endure labor pains!" ”

In those two years, college tuition fees had doubled, and I was glad that I had graduated.

In those two years, medical expenses increased several times, and the unit no longer reimbursed medical expenses for non-leadership employees.

A few years later, I learned a term in a Western magazine called "massive cuts in social welfare." When many Western countries are faced with economic problems, those in power try to do so. But the consequence of his doing so is that his decision-makers will be ousted by the people, just like Australia's former Prime Minister John Howard and his party.

Do you know how painful labor pains can be? How long do you want us to endure?

Why aren't you the ones who endure the pain?!

I know that there will never be an answer to these questions.

To be continued.....