Youth ends when you realize that everything requires money.
Twenty years ago, I was chatting with several floor makers in a wooden floor factory in Minhang.
One of the salesmen, a Hunanese, remembers the hardships and thinks of the sweetness. Talking about after graduating from college, before several dorm mates left, Chunqiu Daye had a box of wine, and Baiwen Zongheng had a cup of urine.
I got up the next day, took my diploma, and ran to Shanghai. I didn't work for three months. I slept under an overpass. I couldn't get any water from restaurants. Someone took it away. I was hungry for three days and drank tap water from public toilets to get through it.
Fortunately, I didn't have diarrhea.
Thanks to Shanghai Water Company for the quality.
He said: At that moment, my youth was over.
He later went to work as a salesperson in a flooring factory in Shanghai, with no basic salary but commission.
I don’t know how he survived the early days of working without money, but it’s nothing more than:
The boss is kind-hearted and borrows money before paying back the salary;
The boss claims that he has a keen eye for pigs, no, he has a keen eye for pearls. When he sees you, you are a young talent with a blue sky on his feet and an auspicious cloud on his head, so I decided to lend you money;
Selling blood, selling sperm;
Met a rich woman on the road.
Which one do you think is more reliable?
Later, I was imprisoned for a night due to debts. Three children from my roommate, one of whom went to steal an electric car as a lookout, and the other two who were hired by energetic people to carry out group activities, were asked by my uncle to hand over the crime.
I have no experience in prison, I just opened a new business, I am not on the list of underground LinkedIn headhunting companies, I choose my path from the beginning of hunger.
Their youth is also over.
When my wife received a call after I disappeared, she felt weak and fell down. I told her on the phone to find the only friend who could lend me money, and to repay another group of energetic people to rescue me. Before I left, I signed a few papers that I didn’t say anything about, so I didn’t want to think about administrative review from now on.
My parents had already given up on me. They took away my daughter and kicked me and my wife out of the house.
I had a job to work and a bright future, but I started a business.
The old man couldn't figure it out. Is that what serious people do?
From then on, my wife became wary of everyone, gradually became autistic, and suffered from more and more physical illnesses. Even if we struggled out of the dark quagmire, there was no improvement. We checked in more than a dozen departments.
It wasn’t until I left the country and came to Phuket seven years ago that I completely recovered.
So that Hunan young man was lucky. It would have been better if he had not started a business later.
In fact, youth has always existed among many middle-aged people who have achieved great success and continue to work to become senior executives.
At their age, they were not fooled into starting a business by the environment like we were in our time.
Coinciding with the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization, many industries will soon have the opportunity to work in the middle class. The real estate bubble and the mother-in-law are urging the mother-in-law to buy a house. As soon as the mortgage loan pressure comes, people will continue to work along the Guangming Avenue.
The annual salary is one million, the house improvement is worth 10 to 20 million, and the children attend private schools.
The profit of a listed company is less than that of selling a house.
I remember a Shanghainese who sold his house and moved to Chile after working as a salesman for 12 years. During the ten years he worked there, he kept using leverage to buy a small house. His boss sold his house and saved money to start a business. He said all day long that he made enough money to buy a big villa. Later, when he finally had a profit to buy back the house he sold, his salesman's assets had exceeded that of the big villa in his dream, so he cashed out half of the money and left.
Another person who sold his house and started a business became a financial writer inexplicably after going through the hardships of starting a business.
Anyone who has failed in life can become a writer, because tears are abundant.
And the writer becomes a commodity analyst, oh, this script is relatively small.
When I left a big factory, I thought I was an entrepreneur, just like the middle-level managers with an annual salary of one million who are being laid off by big factories.
Soon they will understand, as I do, that a pig on the air outlet can fly, and a screw on the machine thinks it dominates the system.
When we feel this way, our youth is still there, just like a teenager.
And when we find that everything requires money, money is no longer deposited into the account at a fixed time every month. Just like the Hunan young man left campus and his parents stopped sending money, his youth is gone.
I no longer even see the youth of my children.
So I sat in silence at Starbucks, pretending to go to work, turned on the computer, and watched an old bastard harming them.
Today I was talking to my daughter about the taboos in life, and I said: Everyone has a price. The important thing is to have a proper understanding of yourself, and then use this to plan your life and move towards the easier path.
