Meng Xi desperately needs a job.

With her meagre luggage and money, she got on a congested bus and went to another city.

In this world, there is a shortage of cheap labor everywhere.

Clothing stores, hot pot restaurants, coffee shops, cake shops...... There is a shortage of people.

Meng Xi chose to work in a bubble tea shop.

"Do six days off and one day, nine in the morning and twelve in the evening, 13 yuan an hour. Is it acceptable? If you can accept it, you will go to work tomorrow. We provide staff quarters and a meal. ”

"Yes." Meng Xi nodded.

She has many skills, but she doesn't have the corresponding certificates.

She went to a taekwondo gym, but people didn't even give her the opportunity to interview.

She wanted to go to a cake shop, but she didn't have a license.

She wants to start a business, but she doesn't have the capital.

She wanted to go to the big city, Meng Xi touched the three hundred yuan in her pocket, well, she was shy in her pocket, and this money was not enough to pay for food and travel expenses.

She lowered her demands.

Wrapped, with a monthly salary of three thousand.

Lacking a certificate to prove the level of professionalism, they can only earn a living by selling their labor.

This means that working eight hours a day is underpaid. Even if you save money, you won't be able to save much.

So one of Meng Xi's requirements is to wrap it, and it is best to eat it.

For a person with a meager salary, no housing and no savings, it is extremely important to have food and shelter.

In the economic survey report released not long ago, the per capita monthly income was more than 9,000 yuan. Based on an eight-hour workday, the hourly wage is about 37.5 yuan.

There are many people who can't meet this standard, and the part-time job Meng Xi is looking for now is far from the average.

The vast majority of part-time and full-time workers earn less than $20 an hour. The hourly wage of a part-time worker in a fast-food restaurant, a cake shop, and a coffee shop ranges from 10 to 18 yuan, the hourly wage for unskilled jobs on the construction site ranges from 13 to 20, and the takeaway and courier work more than 12 hours a day to earn 7,000 a month.

The vast majority of people who can earn 37.5 yuan per hour are people with unique skills, solid skills or a sense of service.

If you can achieve this level in two years after graduation, it means that you have seized the opportunity.

30-33 years old is a threshold, if you can go further, your career development before the age of 40 will be very smooth, and you may know what kind of experience it is to have an annual salary of 20,000-600,000 yuan.

Meng Xi found a job and had a place to live, the time was already more than eleven o'clock at night, much quieter than during the day, she walked along the riverside path to the dormitory.

Along the way, there were unknown insect calls, and from time to time small flying insects hit their faces.

The dormitory building is located in a remote location, passing through a stream and taking a path to get there.

The three-storey house is very old, and on both sides of the gate hangs an old Chinese New Year couplet, and the threshold is made of wood.

A few lazy old yellow dogs slept there at the door, and when they saw strangers, they didn't lift their heads.

Six-person bed, super shabby, the only thing to be thankful for is that there is a separate bathroom.

There was even moss on the balcony.

As long as you can live in people, Meng Xi's requirements are not high.

"You just live here. I'll go to get a health certificate tomorrow morning and go to work in the afternoon. ”

Meng Xi works in a bubble tea shop, no stools, shifts, eight and a half hours a day, her feet are swollen when she comes back every day, she is a newcomer, and she has a lot of things to remember.

When recruiting, it was said that the morning shift was 9 o'clock, but in fact, I had to go at 8 o'clock in the morning, make tea, water tea leaves and ice according to the proportion, and boil tea at 9 o'clock, and the preparation time was not considered money. Then slowly some customers came and began to make orders, and by 16:30 they got off work, and they could only take a break when they were eating.

The working hours of the night shift are from 14:30 to 22:30, and basically a shift will sell more than 150 cups, because there is a milk tea to do activities to buy one get one free, so basically all are making this milk tea, and the palms of the hands are slightly bruised all night. When you leave at night, you have to do hygiene, of course, the time for sanitation is not money.

Only do one thing, if the technical content is high, it is good, the value of high-end labor is reflected in its irreplaceability. The point is that this kind of work has no technical content, so it can be easily replaced, naturally cheap, and even if you feel oppressed, you dare not raise objections.

Life is a little depressing. The word tiredness is deeply engraved on everyone's face.

Twenty years old should be the most energetic and hard-working time for most people in their lives, but their faces are numb. At the most vain age, with nothing and no direction for the future.

Some people say that they have no money, they are driving a car, they have two or three houses at home, they eat what they want, buy what they want, but they can't buy luxury goods.

Some people say that they have no money, but they really don't have money, and they can't afford to buy a box of cherries, such as the current Mengxi.

I only hope that even if I am poor and white, I still have to believe that there will be light in the future.

"Meng Xi, can you help me calculate how long it will take for me to save up for the down payment on the house." Lin Yu is dark-skinned and tall, wearing a T-shirt and jeans, with small freckles around his face, and the corners of his lips are upturned with a smile. This is a vibrant face, the facial features are not pretty, but together they are attractive. There is light in her eyes, she is different from others.

Meng Xi calculated carefully: "It's great, it will take 1 year and 2 months, and you can have your own small house, you are very good." ”

Meng Xi's eyes were bent into crescent moons, rare and cute.

With a monthly salary of 3,000 and a savings of 120,000, Lin Yu used it for 5 years.

If you want to save money, there are only two ways. One is open source, and the other is throttling.

Lin Yu doesn't have the ability to hold two jobs, she just lives very hard, dreaming of having a house of her own and a haven of her own. She's pragmatic.

She can hold on to the money that others can't save, others resign in three days and go to travel to eat their old money, she can always insist on working, and she always works hard to finish what others are willing to put off until tomorrow. In the end, she can live the life that others want to live.

In a year and a half, she will be able to realize her dream. Although he was saddled with a loan, he had a home of his own. A place to go back to whenever you want.

That's nice. Lin Yu's dream will soon come true.

Meng Xi's life is only free and cannot be abandoned, how can she get free?

There is no answer to this question for the time being.

But one day there will be.

"Meng Xi, someone is pursuing me. We knew each other when we were very young. ”

"He transferred the 150,000 yuan he saved to me, he said that he wanted to marry me, and said that the money could buy me a house, and when the real estate certificate was written, my name would be written, and the agreed share would belong to me when applying for the real estate certificate. If I agree, I can go for a down payment right now. But I always felt that I didn't deserve it. You see I don't wear makeup, my face is full of freckles, my skin is dull, I don't use makeup, I look older than him. ”

Lin Yu sat and quietly looked at the night sky outside the window, she looked at the inexplicable tears that flowed down, she didn't notice it, Meng Xi handed her a tissue.

This boy is okay! The point of entanglement is really not how much money the other party can spend on you, but what he can do within his personal ability, he has tried his best to give it to you.

Meng Xi has seen a lot of scumbags, slamming the door and calculating and disrespecting girls, arrogant and reckless, compared with that kind of stinky ditch man, this boy is simply a clear stream.

But at the same time, she felt sad.

The mainstream requires girls to be virtuous and sensible, accompany the car to accompany the decoration, from the monetary aspect, the car is seven fold, and the decoration is not insured, due to the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of the investor, the man buys the house in full and the girl has nothing to do with it.

From this point of view, many girls are really very sincere.