From plumbing installers to "street workers" to car workers, he said he "moved" his life

In Wuding County, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, Zhang Youhai followed the navigation to a residential alley, quickly found a parked shared motorcycle in the depths of the alley, conveniently moved three shared motorcycles onto the tricycle, transferred them to the roadside parking area, and arranged them neatly.

Moving the car to the place where the compliance is parked is Zhang Youhai's daily work, as a new form of employment worker, he uses the spring breeze of the sharing economy to successfully transform from a traditional worker, move his life three times, and live the life he yearns for.

His family was changed and he went to Kunming to work

Xiejiazhuang, 3 kilometers from the county seat of Wuding, is the place where Zhang Youhai's family has lived for generations.

Zhang Youhai, who has excellent academic performance, is eager to change his fate through reading, but he encounters his father suddenly fell ill due to perennial alcoholism, and his father died after that. "At that time, the money for the treatment of my father was borrowed from relatives, and the family owed more than 2,000 yuan after the work, which was a big debt." Zhang Youhai resolutely said to his mother, "I don't go to school anymore." ”

Born in 1987, Zhang Youhai was 20 years old and traveled with his village partners to Kunming, 100 kilometers away, because of the lack of local employment opportunities in Wuding. This was his first visit to Kunming and the first time in his life.

At first, Zhang Youhai found a job as a security guard, earning one or two thousand yuan a month. After working for two years, he saw some employment opportunities and began to think about "how to earn more".

Since then, he has become a fire pipe installer, busy on the construction site every day, "the pipe is very heavy, and the installation location is on the roof, the installation is very dangerous, the operation process is important and pay special attention to safety." Zhang Youhai told reporters that although he ate and lived simply, his monthly income of three or four thousand yuan gave him a taste of the sweetness brought by the struggle, which was 7 years.

I thought the "good days" were coming

Zhang Youhai and his mother depended on each other, and her mother's health deteriorated, and in 2016, he chose to return to his hometown, while taking care of his mother, while farming and doing odd jobs, and began the second move in his life.

In order to make his mother's stay more comfortable, Zhang Youhai took his savings, plus government subsidies and interest-free loans, and began to rebuild the old house. I thought that the "good day" was coming, but my mother suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. Jianfang owed 90,000 yuan, plus 70,000 yuan owed by his mother for medical treatment, and he was in debt of 160,000 yuan.

Because of his mother's high blood sugar, Zhang Youhai went home every day to eat dinner with his mother, and then helped his mother insulin according to the doctor's instructions after the meal. Although the family also grows crops, vegetables, chickens and geese, Zhang Youhai never lets his mother worry.

After his mother was healed, he also completely lost the ability to work, and the burden of accompanying and caring for his mother was pressed on Zhang Youhai's shoulders, and he could not leave Wuding to go out to work, and could only work as a "street worker" in the county street not far away from his spare time.

"The county has weak industries, few factories, and very limited employment opportunities, so for me, there is no better choice than 'street workers.'" Zhang Youhai introduced that "street workers" can only help others do some physical work and move things, and their income is very unstable.

"It was a great place for the family to be together"

"Unwilling" is doing evil every day, and Zhang Youhai wants to take the initiative to "move" fate. With the layout of shared motorcycles in the county, "left-behind youth" like him saw new opportunities for employment.

In June 2018, Songguo shared motorcycles entered Wuding, and Zhang Youhai felt that this was a good opportunity for "nearby employment". "I've ridden shared bikes in Kunming, and I think the industry is relatively new in the county." After seeing the recruitment information, he signed up with the mentality of "trying it out" and finally became a car worker.

Because he would not use the software of work on his smartphone, nor would he ride a tricycle, coupled with the unfamiliarity of the road, when he first started working, Zhang Youhai could only move thirty or forty cars a day. "Colleagues can move so much, why can't they?" After work, he will take his mobile phone to the streets and alleys, recognize the way according to the navigation, and familiarize himself with the work scene. After continuous exploration and improvement, after half a year, he can move 190 cars a day.

Moving 190 cars a day is the upper limit requirement for Songguo Travel to move the car in Wuding, because the intensity of the work itself is large, and if the amount is more, it may bring excessive fatigue to the employees. "It may take 8 hours for others to move, but I usually can move in 6 hours." Nowadays, Zhang Youhai has a good job at work, and in his spare time, he also explores the repair work of sharing motorcycles, "almost all the front-line business will be."

"Move the car 'to the right place.'" Zhang Youhai introduced his current work, "For the convenience of citizens, we will move some low-efficiency cars to places with greater demand in a timely manner." ”

With the development of the sharing economy and the popularity of shared motorcycles in Wuding, Zhang Youhai's salary has also increased, from more than 3,000 yuan at the beginning to 5,000 yuan to 5,000 yuan now. "I earn more than I do in Kunming, and I spend a lot less than I do in Kunming."

For more than 3 years, with the "moving" of shared motorcycles to the right place day after day, Zhang Youhai has also moved his life to a better and more correct place.

Buying a house in the county town is Zhang Youhai's wish all along. At the beginning of 2020, through the joint efforts of him and his wife, he bought a house of more than 100 square meters in the county as desired, and outside of work, taking care of his mother and accompanying his wife became the whole of Zhang Youhai's life. (Reporter Zhao Lihao)

Source: Workers Daily