The Spring Festival holiday is still "making money", how hard do young people fight this time?

Editor's introduction: The Spring Festival holiday should be a time of relaxation and rest, but this year's young people are still "inside the volume". In this article, the author interviews young people in different industries, summarizes why these young people are still working during the Spring Festival holiday, what they work, etc., let's take a look at it together!

The seven-day holiday of the Chinese New Year is a good time for most people to reunite their families, and it is also a time for migrant workers who have been busy for a year to take a short break and escape from the king of the workplace. But there are always people who are still secretly "rolling inside" behind their backs, even if they are on holiday, they are still trying to make money, busy using the Spring Festival holiday to make a small profit.

First, on behalf of the pet, the whole city running, the order can not be received

Narrator: Spring and Autumn, expected income: nearly 10,000 yuan.

I do pet watching, the beginning in the Spring Festival of 2019, when because there was something not to go home, just a friend let me help take care of her cat, because I also have two cats at home, I will send messages on the social platform, see if anyone has this need, a question, sure enough to take over two, at that time I thought that one is also to take care of, 3, 4 can also be taken care of, is a convenient thing.

Later, it was 2020, 2021, these two years because of the epidemic can not go back, I will expand this business, a month before the Spring Festival began to receive orders, I will send ads on various platforms, circles of friends, communities, as long as I can receive orders I will try it. This year's business has never been better, and I estimate that I can probably make nearly 10,000 yuan.

I can also provide more services, before I just put it in my own home to help raise, now my family can not take care of it, just help the pets near the home to feed. Door-to-door service includes feeding food, shoveling, and touching and playing.

Take the cat, the price of a cat is 50 yuan, if it is a multi-cat family, each additional cat fee increases by 10 yuan, the distance increases by 3 kilometers, the price increases by 20/40/60/80, and some "special services" have to be charged separately, for example, many cats will leave the owner will have separation anxiety, the owner will ask for a long time to play, and even pat the cat's ass (some cats will like this, let it feel safe and comfortable), so it is necessary to negotiate the cost separately.

Dogs are more troublesome, dogs need to go out for a walk, it takes longer and more, so the price will be correspondingly higher. And because of the different body types, the charges are also different, the price is between 70-150, these are the price of one time, some communities have more young people, I can pick up more than a dozen.

In addition to cats and dogs, there are also many people who have raised pets now, and I have been exposed to honey bag ferrets, mink, rabbits, lizards, chameleons, parrots, etc., which depends on the degree of pet's relatives and the service fees that need to be provided.

Because I am more careful, and in the care of pets are also very experienced, this year to find me more and more orders, are friends of friends introduced, I can not be busy alone, just find a few friends to help me take orders together, I draw a little commission from the inside, from the week before the New Year, my first to seventh orders have been full, the workload has been saturated, can no longer be picked up.

In fact, if the hard scalp can also be picked up, but it is difficult to serve every pet "little master", although the money is not much, but it is all word of mouth, I hope they can think of me next time, I am doing long-term business.

In fact, now, many pet shops also have foster care business, but more people are still in the family foster, door-to-door feeding way, pets are more aware of the environment, leaving the original environment will be more afraid, pet shop small "lattice room" will increase the anxiety of pets, and many pet shops simply can not play a role in careful care, so most owners are reluctant to put cats and dogs in pet shops, on the other hand, the price is more expensive.

Second, second-hand luxury goods, the Spring Festival price increase is the industry's unspoken rules

Narrator: Pills, expected income: more than 20,000 yuan.

I began to do this line officially from 2019, before I also liked to study the second luxury industry, I always loved to buy, and gradually began to want to do business in this area. However, I just caught up with a better time, the price of second-hand luxury goods in the past two years is still quite hot, the business is quite good, I now have an offline store, next year is expected to open another one, while doing live broadcasting in the store, you can also put the bag in the live broadcast platform to sell.

During the New Year, the luxury business will be extremely hot, because many young people, especially those who work in big cities, will want to buy a more expensive big-name bag to let relatives and friends know that they are doing well in the big city. There is also the Spring Festival around, will catch up with the employees of major enterprises to issue year-end bonuses, most girls will want to buy a relatively large object to treat themselves.

Most of the people who come to the store to buy bags are girls, and the boys in the live broadcast room may still account for 20-30%, some of them want to do some trend collocations, and more are for girlfriends or mothers to make holiday gifts.

Because the best-selling bags will be more sought-after, so before the Spring Festival, I will start stocking in advance, some old customers, will also find me in advance to book, this kind of old customers will generally be sold to her according to the price of the usual sale, but if it is a live broadcast room or a newcomer, will choose to add a little price at this time of the Spring Festival, if it is a regular package of about a few hundred yuan, a particularly popular price increase of several thousand.

This year's luxury goods prices rose particularly sharply, just in the recent January, LV basically all products have raised the price, the increase in between 1% -13%; Gucci popular models such as old flowers, etc., the increase or as high as 20%-30%, and Chanel's price increase is definitely financial product level, such as 2.55 classic package type, which has been rising in recent years, has gone through several rounds of price adjustments, from about 38,000 yuan in 2019 to more than 60,000 yuan today.

It is also for this reason that the business of second-hand luxury goods is getting better and better, the secondary market will have more choices, such as Hermès, LV, etc. will require you to dispense, buy a bag to pay even 2-3 times the price, but the second-hand market can buy at any time, a SF can receive the package the next day, the price is also more advantageous, some packages can be bought in me with 3-4 discounts, and the color is also very good.

But the second-hand market will indeed have a more chaotic situation, because the industry does not have a standard, each second-hand dealer will be according to their own standards to price second-hand luxury goods, so there will be some abnormal operating space here, for example, if this is a new package on the counter this year, we accept it, can be higher than the price of the counter to buy, and will immediately sell short.

A person with a bag can buy more than 10,000 yuan, but some only sell 6,000-7,000 yuan, but whether it is selling 10,000 or selling six or seven thousand, everyone can earn, nothing more than the problem of making more and making less.

Third, the Operation of Internet Factories, take the initiative to sign up for overtime, and receive 2-3 times the salary

Narrator: New, expected income: 8000-10000 yuan.

This year, I was forced to stay at work for the New Year, and it was also the first time I spent the Spring Festival in overtime. Spring Festival, in fact, is a very important festival for me, my hometown will also have a special sense of ceremony, there are ancestor worship, markets, temple fairs and other activities, but the epidemic in these two years has actually made the New Year taste very light, plus because of the epidemic policy, let me dispel the idea of going home.

I am in an Internet factory to do operations, in fact, the big factories are preparing for the "Spring Festival economy" during the Spring Festival, do not want to let others easily curve to overtake, during the Spring Festival people will not relax, because of the nature of the work, in previous years, this time will have colleagues to stay and work overtime, the general leader will arrange local colleagues to work overtime.

But this year, our project team also has a Spring Festival project, so the group will still be busy, in the statistics of overtime scheduling, I took the initiative to sign up.

If you can't be reunited with your family, it's good to make more money. According to the labor law, there will be an extra half a month's salary, which can dilute some of the loneliness that I can't go home.

And there are many colleagues who can't go home this year, so although we are at work, we still arrange some interesting activities, such as baking, dumplings, Japanese teppanyaki, and after work, we will go to the hot spring with some colleagues, play go-karts, and we can't celebrate the New Year at home, but we have a more exciting and richer life.

Although I can't go home, but my overtime is still voluntary, I have a friend who works in other enterprises, she said that they are forced not to leave the workplace, a total of 200 yuan compensation, a comparison of my overtime is very fragrant.

Fourth, the Spring Festival dietitian, the demand before and after the Spring Festival is large, working overtime until 3 a.m. every day

Narrator: Tommy, expected income: over $10,000.

I am a dietitian and nutritionist on Douyin, at the beginning as a simple record, share some of their own weight loss experience and nutrition knowledge, and then slowly, the fans will become more, there are people who specifically want to learn from me. I'll simply help with some recipes and fitness plans.

At the beginning, there were not many students, maybe about half a year there were a few people to learn with me, but as the video became more and more, more and more fans, there were more and more students with professional needs, so I made a service distinction, divided into ordinary members and VIP members and VVIP throughout the process of several grades.

But weight loss is actually a service cycle, each student may serve about three months to half a year or so, will end the service. Because his goal has been achieved and he has mastered some knowledge and skills, he will not continue to practice with you.

Therefore, it is a good time to pull up a new time during the New Year. The first climax period is before the New Year, many people have the need to lose weight before returning to their hometown; another is that after the New Year, after indulging in eating and drinking, everyone will enter the period of repentance, and there is also a need for this.

At the same time, in order to receive more orders during the Spring Festival, I will simultaneously prepare videos to be released during the Spring Festival, such as teaching everyone how to make fat loss and healthy Chinese New Year's Eve meals, and how to arrange their exercise during the Spring Festival.

Therefore, I will be busier during this time, and in the week before the New Year, in order to help the students implement the plan, I basically sleep around 3 a.m. every day. Because I still have my job, I think I want to copy and record videos, and all of this can only be done during off-hours.

Moreover, weight loss is based on each person's different physique, can not say that a plan is all copied and pasted to all students, each person's requirements are also different, according to each person's needs and his physique, to make a different plan for him.

In fact, I am now a bit struggling to coach so many students alone, and I am still cultivating a team, mainly among the students who have previous successful cases to find people who are willing to do this.

On the one hand, I think it is a very happy thing to be able to help others lose weight, and finally I can see his very obvious changes in the past few months, I will be very accomplished; on the other hand, this job I do not need to pay too much time and energy, time is also very flexible and free, but also get a lot of remuneration, an ordinary student fee is 398 yuan, VIP student is 698 yuan, VVIP fee is 1298 yuan, if I probably add more than 10 students during the Spring Festival, Then you can probably earn tens of thousands of dollars a month. The cost performance is indeed higher than doing your own job.

Fifth, movie scalpers, some Spring Festival holidays can earn a year's income

Narrator: Xiao Fat, expected income: 2000 yuan.

I can only be regarded as a small agent, wanting to make some money to buy vegetables during the Spring Festival.

The upcoming Spring Festival stalls, for the movie scalper is the perfect time to make money, so there are a lot of "scalper heads" will start to recruit agents crazy before the Spring Festival, I myself am often through a certain cattle herd to buy movie tickets, this time I saw him in the recruitment agent information, I joined, I did not report too much hope, can earn a thousand eight hundred can also. But as far as I know, there are big scalpers who can use the Spring Festival holiday to earn a year's income.

Scalpers' business is very simple, that is, through various channels to get full reductions, so as to exchange movie tickets at a price much lower than the original price of the ticket, the difference between which is the profit of the scalpers.

The source of big scalpers is very extensive, various channels to obtain movie ticket vouchers, related packages, the supply is very sufficient, some even know the theater manager, can be through the regional theater line large-scale tickets, and many cinemas will have employee welfare movie tickets, will also be sold to them; some technical scalpers are more powerful, will find a large number of system loopholes through crawlers and other ways, and then collect low-cost tickets or even free tickets.

What we little agents can do is constantly help them to pull people to buy tickets. I am now through the idle fish, Douban and other platforms to release information, customers first in the ticketing software to choose the theater, time, seats, number of cards, and then I communicate with the scalper, and then give my order quotation, I add some of their own profits to finalize the price and send it to the customer. After payment, he sends me the ticket or sends the ticket code directly to the customer's mobile phone.

The reason why I can make a profit in the Spring Festival is that the first Spring Festival theater line has many movies and full seats, and the second is that the price itself is high, and there is still a lot of room for scalpers to increase the price, such as a 60 yuan movie ticket, my merchant gives me a quotation of 25, I sell it to customers 38-40, I can also earn, but the movie ticket itself is cheap, I may only be able to earn a few yuan.

And now the customers are very savvy, I am so cheap, and there are customers who want to bargain. Some will also ask for the price of several and then choose the cheapest one.

The reason why I did this during the Spring Festival, first of all, I have to go to see a lot of movies myself, and I am also quite interested in this industry, and this will not delay too much time, that is, Tu Yile.

Author: Qiao Xue, public number: Tech Planet (ID: tech618)

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