In society, the "three noes" people with no skills, no education, and no background relationship always have to engage in hard and low-paid work in order to live, and often can only mix with food and clothing at the end of the year.
In fact, for them, hard work is a small matter, the real distress is that the salary is too low, if you can have a high-paying job, even if you need to leave your hometown to go abroad, I believe they will not refuse.
In the coastal area of Jiangsu, there is such a person who has reached the age of establishment @ I move bricks in Singapore, he has parents, he has children, in order to support his family, he will not hesitate to go to the ocean to work in Singapore, only because the salary here is higher than in China.
Ho in a park in Singapore
Destiny: The family's only source of income
Huo Daxia (self-proclaimed), born in 1989, Jiangsu people, their hometown is in Donghai County, Lianyungang City, the family is ordinary.
It is enviable that he has a pair of lovely children.
His daughter Dabao is five years old and still in kindergarten; his son Erbao has just learned to walk, which is when the family spends the most.
His wife could not go out to work to take care of her two children, and lived with her parents in a rural building built by herself in the early years, so Huo Daxia was the only source of income for the family.
In order to support the family, he tried to do a lot of work.
But Huo Daxia is not as skilled and arrogant as the real "big hero", he has no education and no skills, he is just an ordinary member of all sentient beings, and he is not competent for many of the jobs he tries, or the salary of the work is not high, not enough for his family's expenses.
In short, Huo Daxia has been able to find a satisfactory job all the way.
At the beginning of 2020, the outbreak of the epidemic, Huo Daxia just happened to quit his last job and stayed at home for two and a half months.
During that time, because there was no economic income at home, he often felt panicked, like sitting on a needle felt, playing badly, and could not sleep, but there was no way at all.
As soon as the epidemic situation improved, Huo Daxia quickly found a job as a takeaway worker, because he often heard others say that delivering takeaways is very profitable, as long as you work hard, you can earn more than 10,000 yuan a month.
Huo Daxia used the battery car when running takeout
As a result, Huo Daxia became a Meituan takeaway delivery agent with ardent expectations.
When he first put on the "yellow coat" and drove a battery car through the streets and alleys of Donghai County, he thought of a point of hard work and a harvest, thinking that as long as he was willing to pay and was not afraid of suffering, he would definitely get the ideal high salary.
But less than a year into the industry, Huo Daxia was eager to quit this fateful job immediately.
Delivering takeaway is very hard He has heard about it earlier, but he did not expect that it was so dangerous, the wind comes and goes in the rain is very easy to have accidents, and his work group has colleagues report their accidents almost every week.
The light one may just fall into the car and sprinkle the takeaway, but the heavy one is often injured, and if you want to take leave to recuperate, you may also be subject to compensation.
Once, Huo Daxia was hit by a battery car, although the traffic police sentenced the other party to the main responsibility, but because he did not slow down at the intersection, observing the road conditions is also a violation, the person who hit him fell and was hospitalized, so he had to pay thirty percent of the cost for the other party.
A photo taken by Huo Daxia when he had an accident
This incident also made Huo Daxia completely disappointed in this job, but to leave his job is not something that can be done for a while and a half, and he has no choice but to turn into a part-time rider and run for a while.
Therefore, Huo Daxia sincerely felt that no job was easy, especially to deliver takeaways, and others rumored that the monthly salary was more than 10,000, but only a few top-notch people at a site could do it, and they had to send non-stop and run fifteen or six hours a day.
He worked as a delivery man for ten months, and never once paid more than 10,000 yuan a month.
After the Meituan takeaway, Huo Daxia also worked as a sales anchor assistant, that is, to help the anchor prepare the things needed to use when selling goods live.
Although these anchors who sell goods seem to only need to move their mouths to make money, there are also many doorways in it, and he has not learned them for more than half a year.
Inflection point: Even if you do foreign work, you have to go abroad to collect gold
In June 2021, Huo Daxia quit his job as an anchor assistant, spent 7,000 yuan in intermediary fees, and applied for a Singapore company through the introduction of an intermediary agency in Nanjing.
Going abroad to do foreign work is not a decision he made on a whim, and many people in his county town go to foreign countries to work every day, which is also a mainstream way to make a living.
After breaking the wall everywhere in China, Huo Daxia also chose to go abroad to beg for a living with the current.
However, due to the impact of the epidemic, huo Daxia spent three months to complete the relevant procedures for working abroad, and did not arrive at the Singapore airport until August 28, 2021.
And he and three colleagues had to stay in the scheduled hotel for quarantine as soon as they got off the plane, and it took seven days before they could go for a medical examination, a Singapore bank card and a work permit, which were also usually done before entering Singapore.
The five-star hotel where Mr. Huo arrived in Singapore for quarantine
Fortunately, this company is not bad for foreign workers, and has long promised to help them reimburse air tickets and quarantine costs after joining the company.
After the quarantine was lifted, Huo Daxia and a colleague went to the apartment in Ulan, Singapore, introduced by the agent.
When they went inside, they found that it was just a simple double room, with no furniture except two beds and a wardrobe.
The air conditioner in the room is not allowed to use it, not to mention, even if the two beds are also sitting on it, it will sound like it will fall apart at any time.
Ho Da Xia is a humble apartment in Ulan, Singapore
But it is such an apartment, a month's rent is as high as 800 Singapore dollars, equivalent to 4,000 yuan, which is already higher than the same quality apartment in the first-tier cities in China.
Huo Daxia was also startled by this rent at first, but thought that as long as he could achieve a monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan in Singapore, this price would still be acceptable.
However, the epidemic in Singapore at that time was very serious, and the local government had adopted a policy of coexistence with the virus, unlike in our country, where a case was found and a district was sealed. Huo Daxia was also delayed in joining the company.
Some people may be puzzled, since singapore's rent is so high and the epidemic is so serious, why did Huo Daxia choose to come to Singapore to do foreign work?
In fact, for ordinary people in the seventh- and eighth-tier cities in China, Singapore is indeed the best choice for foreign workers.
First of all, Singapore is a country built by the Chinese, and there is no need to worry about language problems when working here, and public places such as restaurants, shopping malls, attractions, subway stations and other public places will have Chinese signs.
Singapore restaurants are equipped with Chinese on the price list
Secondly, the climate here is very stable, all year round is summer, the temperature is around 24 ~ 30 °C. People wear shirts, shorts, and sandals when they go out, which is convenient for migrant workers, no need to prepare clothes for other seasons, and save money.
Finally, the country is very safe, the legal system is quite perfect, the social environment is relatively fair and just, at least when working in peacetime, there is no need to sneak around and please the boss, as long as you do your own job.
In addition, Singapore has strictly regulated all kinds of discrimination and must not allow racial discrimination, sex discrimination, disability discrimination or fat people discrimination. If someone says to their face that someone else is fat, says someone else is ugly, or what's not good, they will generally be fined or detained.
Singapore at night
Huo Daxia and his roommate stayed in the apartment for another seven days, during which they did a medical examination by the way, and then went to the company to report.
Since this group of ten people did not arrive at the company at the same time, Huo Daxia did not hold a welcome ceremony in the company on the first day of work, and the old employee only briefly introduced the location of the safety exit and the toilet and let him start working directly.
Under normal circumstances, when a Singaporean company is new, a welcome ceremony is held, and the leader will introduce the company's development history, cultural traditions and so on.
And Huo Daxia, they also went to get a work permit and bank card after working for a few days.
In Singapore, there are three types of work permits, WP, SP and EP.
The WP Pass is the easiest to obtain, proving that you are an unskilled regular worker who can only do simple and easy-to-learn work.
There must be a certain number of skilled staff, such as drivers, cooks, electricians, etc. to get the SP pass, and the salary of these people is much higher than that of the person holding the WP pass.
The last EP pass requires high-caliber students or professionals who have graduated from prestigious universities to get it, and they can work as engineers or managers, and the monthly salary is generally between 5,000 and 8,000 Singapore dollars, that is, between 25,000 and 40,000 yuan, and the future is bright.
Huo Daxia is not so capable and can only get a WP pass, but according to him, his salary is also higher than the jobs he has done in China before.
Although he is still engaged in mechanical repetitive work in Singapore, it is much easier than in China, and the working hours are short.
And companies on the Singapore side won't deduct your wages because you're late or take too much time off.
They also have an unwritten rule: if you have something or simply don't want to work, you just have to go to the hospital and pretend to have a fever and headache, ask the doctor to give you an MC certificate, you don't have to go to work, and your salary is still paid.
Singapore city
Reality: With a monthly income of more than 10,000, life in Singapore is not as good as it seems
At first, Huo Daxia was quite satisfied with the country, feeling that although it was only the size of a county in China, it had a population of 5.7 million and was very well managed.
In particular, two million of them are foreign workers, in addition to China, there are people from India, the Philippines, Malaysia and other countries, which shows the charm of this country.
But after living here for a long time, Huo Daxia found that it was not an ideal city.
For example, prices in Singapore are already higher than in other places, and coupled with the impact of the epidemic, many things are not affordable for migrant workers.
Moreover, in this country supported by foreign labor, there are a mixture of people, and Huo Daxia first saw his colleague's wallet being stolen, and then even he himself suffered.
There is also the fact that many of the old employees of the company here are not very friendly to the newcomers, huo Daxia once chatted with some newcomers who left their own companies in a hurry, and they all said that they left because they could not stand the criticism of the old employees.
The scene on Pasar in Singapore, "Pasar" means bazaar
It is said that "every festive season is doubly thinking of relatives", last year's Spring Festival, Huo Daxia could not return to China because of the epidemic, alone in Singapore for the New Year, the bitterness of which only he himself knew.
But in order to support his family, it is inevitable to endure some life pains, and what he is most afraid of is being misunderstood by his loved ones.
Once, Huo Daxia secretly transferred a little money to his mother, and when his wife found out, she suspected that he was accusing himself of being mean, but as a daughter-in-law, would she still not allow her husband to give money to her in-laws?
After some quarrels, his wife blacked him out in a fit of rage, and the two of them did not contact him for several days.
In fact, the reason why Huo Daxia secretly gave money to his mother was only because his mother was more sensitive and did not want his daughter-in-law to know about it, afraid that their little two would quarrel because of this.
The so-called family has a difficult scripture, and Huo Daxia, who works overseas, is really brainbroken for the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
At the beginning of this month, Huo Daxia, who had been working hard, suddenly had a high fever, red and swollen eyes, and a clear nose, and he couldn't help but wonder if he was unfortunately infected with the new crown virus.
At present, the epidemic situation in Singapore is very serious, with a daily increase of up to 20,000 cases, and it is no wonder that he has such suspicions. Fortunately, it was only a false alarm, and his body recovered after resting for more than ten days.
Huo Daxia eats pancakes in Singapore
Huo Daxia has been working in Singapore for more than half a year, and now he is still working in an electronics factory, although he works the night shift, but the salary is not cheap, and he has achieved the goal of a monthly salary of more than 10,000.
He personally felt that if a person is still young, not afraid of hardship, and does not have a good job at home, he should still go abroad to break through, that is, long knowledge, and high salary.
At least it is better than working for more than ten hours a day in an ordinary county in China to get 4,000 or 5,000 wages!
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