A pair of scissors breaks the world – the successful life of an immigrant Barber in New Zealand

The successful life of an immigrant New Zealand barber

When it comes to immigration, many people will say that only rich people can immigrate, wrong, completely wrong. Most of the Chinese immigrants to New Zealand are ordinary people, rich, but not much money, even years of savings; talented, but not the most talented, placed in the country is an inconspicuous one among all sentient beings. But they all have the tenacity to start a business in a foreign country, and use their own industrious hands to create their own lives.

20 years ago, we immigrated to New Zealand, everything is so strange, many of the simplest things need to start over, but also to save money, such as cutting hair, yellow dad's head I can trim, cut like a dog does not matter, wear a hat can go out, my hair has been kept, long to tie up. Later, when it was hot, I felt that it was inconvenient to keep long hair, so I cut myself, and the consequence of my own cut was that I couldn't see the back, uneven, so I had to go to a Chinese barber to trim it - why not find a foreigner barber shop? Too expensive – so I found this Shanghai barber shop near my house.

This barbershop is open at home, originally a garage, the garage door is replaced by a sliding door, the floor is laid inside, and a barber chair is put on the barbershop. Yes, there is also a certificate hanging on the wall, which is issued by a beauty salon in Hong Kong. This barbershop at home is the first choice of many Chinese, first of all, cheap, secondly close to home, again, language can communicate, like what kind of does not need to be compared for half a day. Also for me, the only barber in this Shanghai barbershop is a woman, and I'm more comfortable with the female barber getting my head.

The first time you go to get a haircut, it should be said that it is a trim, she said that your hair is cut by yourself, I said yes, so let you fix it, cut it neatly. She said she cut her hair herself, and looked in the mirror when she couldn't see it. See, this female hairdresser is a very good communicator. In fact, this is a necessary skill for a barber. Good at communication, parents are short, will make the process of cutting hair less stuffy. See, that's what I like about female barbers, and that's what I can talk to.

The hairdresser is very talkative, she said that she is from Anhui, went to Shanghai to work very early, and then studied hairdressing in Shanghai, and obtained a hairdressing certificate issued by Hong Kong - in the 1990s, there were a lot of Hong Kong and Taiwan-related educational institutions in the mainland to do beauty salon training, and then issued certificates. She then immigrated to New Zealand with this certificate. That being said, it was easy to immigrate to New Zealand at that time.

But easy is easy, but it's not easy to settle down in New Zealand. In the beginning, she really suffered a lot, and she also took two young children, cut her hair every day, and only rested one day a week. Later, after a little savings, I took out a loan to buy a house, modified the garage, and turned it into a garage barber shop, and made a simple sign at the door, which wrote Shanghai Haircut in Chinese English. The Surrounding Chinese will look at the sign over, after all, it is cheap, at that time, men's hair is 8 yuan, women's hair is 10 yuan. Of course, the price has now gone up (30 for men, 35 for women). She said that when she came, she didn't know English, and people didn't know how to reply when they called to make an appointment, but later they got better and could understand the basic haircut in English. Fortunately, people around her can come to her for a haircut, all because it is convenient and cheap, and the hairstyle is very simple and easy to communicate.

She said she rented out several rooms in her home to live and pay off her loans. When I was cutting my hair, I saw several cars parked in front of the door, all of which were parked by tenants.

Later, I went to cut my hair several times, sometimes she was alone, sometimes I had to wait, whether she was alone or I sat on the side, I could hear her chatting about various days, about family, about society, complaining, sighing, happy, happy. She has pieced together the story of her and her family.

In fact, it is just the story of ordinary people. It is very pyrotechnic, especially in a foreign country, whether it is a listener or a speaker, there is a place to speak, someone can talk, someone can listen, it is considered a comfort to the soul.

Later, I saw that she had also bought the house on the side and repaired it beautifully. She said she and her family only lived in three rooms, and the others were rented out.

Then I heard that she bought half a street house. I asked her about this rumor, and she firmly denied it, saying that if half the street was mine, why should I get a haircut, just collect the rent.

However, it also shows that she bought several houses. She kept on taking the work with a pair of scissors, three hundred and sixty-five days, only one day off a week, in short, as long as she passed her garage barbershop, she would open the door nine times out of ten.

And her two children also rely on her scissors to send to private school to study, and now one is studying in the Uk and the other is studying in the United States, opening a completely different life from her mother.

And she's still cutting her hair, day after day, year after year.

In fact, her hair cutting means are not very clever, just the general trimming, I see her garage barber shop will be attractive because she is particularly understanding of it, her greatest ability is to never forget people, as long as she cut her head, how many years later, she remembers.

Brother Kidnapper went to cut her hair once a few years ago, and she didn't forget it, and when they met again, they would ask long and short questions. This is probably the reason why everyone is willing to go to her place to cut their hair.

More than twenty years ago, she broke into the world in New Zealand with a beauty diploma, and more than twenty years later, her children became talented, she owned several houses, is this a wonderful life for ordinary people?

Therefore, every immigrant is not easy, there has been sadness, there has been confusion, there has been despair, but more is persistence. She persevered for more than twenty years as soon as she insisted.

In other words, cutting hair in New Zealand is really quite profitable, and 35 yuan in half an hour will arrive.

Off-topic, haircuts can also be established in New Zealand.