This is the 118th issue of "Small People, Big Workplace": a 21-year-old who opened a gou meat hot pot as the owner of the shop earned 100,000 yuan a month, but at the age of 30, he moved bricks at the construction site and earned 5,000 yuan a month to give child support to the post-90s
Age: 30 Occupation: Brick moving on construction sites
Coordinates: Wuhan Revenue: about 5000 (unstable)
Do you believe in retribution? I believe.
This month there is still a 1,000 yuan child support, and I have to go to the construction site to move bricks for a few days. It is not a fake brick mover, it is a brick mover at the bottom of the real construction site. Thinking that the more I live, the more I go back, and when I reach the age of thirty, not only did I not stand, but also made a mess of the family's life, I always thought that this was the return of the karmic wheel.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > 19 years old, did not want to study high school sophomore dropout, followed his cousin to learn to make gou meat hot pot</h1>
In 2010, I was still in my second year of high school, at a non-key high school in Wuhan.
When I was 19 years old, when I was the most rebellious, I was deeply affected by the uselessness of reading that I didn't know who instilled, so I didn't want to continue reading, plus during that time, my parents often quarreled and took a lying gun to me, at that time I wanted to escape from this home, so I resolutely decided to end my reading path.
At that time, my cousin opened a gou meat hot pot restaurant in Hunan, and I heard that I made a lot of money by making a lot of noise, so I called him and said that I wanted to learn, and my cousin was interesting enough to ask me to go and mix with him.
After arriving in Hunan, my cousin did not fool me, and the business was full and busy every day.
My job is an apprenticeship, starting with sha dogs, that is, after the work gou collected from the formal market is killed, tuo skin, slicing, this job is unacceptable to me at the beginning, but I think that I have to understand the whole process in the future to engage in this industry, and every link must be learned to do it, and I can only start hard.
From the very beginning of the sha the first one took half an hour to a few minutes to get it done, and I used it for a month.
Later, my cousin felt that I was almost there, and began to gradually teach me ingredients, secret recipes, heat, plating, hospitality, etc., I did not disappoint my cousin, the drier and more skilled, after a year I also felt that I could stand alone, even if my cousin was occasionally not in the store, I could open the whole store.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > became a hot pot restaurant owner at the age of 21, earning 100,000 yuan a month, and the boss shouted me "floating"</h1>
I expressed to my cousin that I wanted to go back to Wuhan to open a store, and my cousin was very supportive, and also gave me tens of thousands of yuan of starting capital as a share.
After returning to Wuhan, I took tens of thousands of pieces of money from my home, found a not-so-prosperous place and opened the store, because we did not have a similar store in the local area, and the store was on fire as soon as it opened.
I started as a person plus parents to help, soon there is not enough manpower, I found a sister, brother-in-law also invited two waiters, due to the unique form of taste, word of mouth also appeared the phenomenon of human-to-human transmission, do not have to advertise at all, every day is busy, peak hours daily turnover can do about 8k.
Because my location is not a bustling place, the rent is low, the staff in the store are basically family members and quite save money, advertising has not been played, plus only do single products and send side dishes, the supply chain is stable and bargaining power is strong, and it also avoids the waste of preparing vegetables. So the profit at that time was still relatively high, and I could earn almost 100,000 yuan a month, of course, I basically did not rest.
At the same time as making a lot of money, the whole person is becoming more and more confident and excited, in the end it is because of youth, in a voice boss I gradually drifted.
It's really in response to that sentence, when you mix well, surrounded by good people. Classmates, friends, and relatives knew that I was doing a good business and making money, so they all came to me to borrow money.
Even if my classmates who had just entered the university asked me to borrow money, as long as I had no ability to repay the money, as long as I called me a brother, I basically agreed. This part has not been calculated and borrowed more than 100,000 yuan, basically there is no return.
Then it is to start having a girlfriend, today to find this and tomorrow to find that, not to talk about feelings and not to get married, just pure play.
There are several girlfriends who have spent tens of thousands of dollars, and there is no follow-up after a month or two.
After the business stabilized, I was not so concerned about the store's affairs, a lot of time was handed over to my dad who did not do business at all, and then he drove out to play, and he didn't care about the opinions of the guests who often came to eat, then he would feel that I was not a bad customer, more than you are not more, less you are a lot.
At 21 years old, I was really crazy to get home, thinking that I was very good, amazing, and didn't care about anything.
It is this mentality that leads to the fact that when there is a problem, there is no chance to solve it.
After my business was good, the surrounding area also began to learn me to open a hot pot restaurant, with the now very popular word is to start the inner roll, one after another appeared Guizhou Huajiang gou meat, Guangxi Yulin gou meat, braised, stew pot have been, the guests are gradually diverted.
Coupled with the era of self-media, all kinds of gou stealing news on the Internet, coupled with the blessing and resistance of gou lovers, under various influences, the business is not as good as a day, but the expenses in the store have not decreased at all, and the operation is becoming more and more difficult, and I still don't know how to solve this situation when I am young.
Slowly, the small hundreds of thousands in the bank card are left with tens of thousands, and in desperation, they begin to reduce people and save various costs. But because the core problems are not solved at all, cost reduction leads to a worse user experience until the daily loss decision is made to close the door.
At this time, it was only less than 2 years since I opened the store.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" > retribution coming? The shop was yellow again, the marriage was divorced, and now the construction site moved bricks and almost could not afford to pay child support</h1>
After a period of empty space, nothing to do every day, when going out to play, I met my ex-wife on the high-speed rail, and soon took the ball and married my son.
However, due to the lack of understanding, there are also many problems after marriage, plus when there is money, I did not want to buy a house and live separately with my parents, and the contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is also large, but because the children are still young, they will always live.
During the period also borrowed money and opened a larger restaurant, due to the previous track living space was squeezed, I changed to a new category, do barbecue and stir-fry, but still made their own old mistakes, please people are invited friends and relatives, even if the guests say that the chef's skills are not good, I am not embarrassed to open him.
The increasingly embarrassing financial situation made me feel very stressed, my parents and daughter-in-law still counted themselves one by one, and in this case, the second store quickly became yellow, that is, the closure of this store became the last straw that crushed the camel, and my wife and I divorced.
Late at night, in the dead of night, I often can't sleep, I lie in bed stunned, there is a question I asked myself countless times: Why did I fall to this point?
Before starting this business, there were old people who told me that too many shasha would be retribution, I didn't think so, but people have a lot of time to reverie when they are down, and I always wonder if my bad luck is because of this.
But life goes on.
In the middle, I have been to the electronics factory to play screws, the market has sold fruit, and friends have engaged in breeding, and also learned a driver's license to prepare to drive a muck truck, but they all ended in failure, and occasionally went to the construction site to do a casual job, two or three hundred a day.
Because I always think that I can't always work on the construction site in the future, this job is also a transition, and it is this idea that makes me transition for several years without learning the skills at the site, and I am engaged in the lowest level of small work, maybe I am a master and a low hand!
Now my income is the income from moving bricks at the construction site, but it is extremely unstable, sometimes there is work, sometimes there is no, now it is 5,000 income a month, after giving maintenance, it is enough for my own life, and sometimes the maintenance is worried.
Now I have no money and no resources, no core competitiveness, want to open a store again, in the face of the current catering industry's internal volume, is undoubtedly sent to death.
Day by day, people say that when the current ability is not enough to support their ambitions, they must start to study, but I feel that I do not have time to study, nor am I in the mood to study.
Looking back now, those who did not mix well with themselves have also left themselves behind, the road is long and long, and they can only solve the problem of survival and then see where the opportunity is.
Life is like the stock market, do not start counting money when you are still in the game, whether it is leading or lagging behind in the process, it is just floating wins and floating losses, who can go to the end is really not necessarily.
Still want to say a word, if you still have the opportunity to learn, have a choice, or enrich your academic qualifications and abilities, since the society is rolling, you can only make yourself more able to roll than others.
Do we have any other options?
Finally, I really want to ask you, do you believe in karma?
Anyway, I believed.
All along, there has been an idea, telling the workplace and entrepreneurial stories of ordinary people around them, they may not have success in the worldly sense, they may not have a lot of money, and even work hard for life and a house, but everyone is unique, their stories are unique, their stories must have sadness, there is temperature, there is power, there is something that touches you, small people, there are also big forces.