Author: Wang Ear
Source: Mr. Wang Er (ID: huangezishiba)
Two years ago, Big V Autumn Leaf posted a post on Weibo:
"The wife called, and the taxi driver took the initiative to tell her that a man who had just got on the car began to cry in the car.
This person was a corporate executive in Wuhan a few years ago, with an annual salary of more than 300,000 yuan, bought a suite, and paid 5,000 yuan a month. I bought another car and paid 7,000 yuan a month.
Originally, I thought of doing a big job this year, paying off the mortgage and car loan, and living a middle-class life with a car and a house. Unexpectedly, just after the epidemic passed, the company announced that it was closed.
He couldn't find a suitable job now, and he didn't dare to talk to his family. The thought of only a few months of life being reduced to this point can only be cried in the taxi. ”
That year, we all thought it was just an accident; unexpectedly, two years later, we were all living in the story.
A few days ago, @Shenzhen Health Commission made a live call public.
A streamer had just dialed a close-knit person when the middle-aged man opposite collapsed:
"I really want to cooperate with you, but as soon as I say it, I will lose my job."
Streamer: "We will keep it strictly confidential. The law also protects your rights. ”
The heart of a middle-aged man is extremely sad:
"My boss can always find a reason to fire me."
"The whole family of 10 people, everyone eats money, how can I give it?"
At that moment, across the phone, the tears of the conductor and the middle-aged man broke through the embankment at the same time.
In the end, the man was quarantined, and his job was not saved.
The fate of the individual and the changes of the times, the narrow road meets, can only be ruthlessly crushed.
Under the epidemic, we are afraid of unemployment, let alone unemployment.
This is the A-side of life.
But what if one day the crisis really comes to us?
That's the B side I want to talk to you about today.
Recently, Hainan Airlines' flight attendant live broadcast "stunning" countless netizens.
"Babies who want cream look at it."
"Oily babies can flush."
"Link 11 ends with the last batch, one, two, three, and starts."
……
Flight attendants dressed in aviation uniforms turned into "cabinet sisters", introducing beauty products with skillful words, and at the same time vigorously promoting to netizens.
It seems to be drifting away from the elegant and noble fan we know well.
After all, in everyone's previous impression, the flight attendant is an enviable high-income group, how to get off the plane to live stream the goods?
And you look at a set of data from Times Finance:
Recently, the three major domestic airlines have successively disclosed their 2021 annual reports, Air China, China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, each of which is losing money, and the three major airlines have a total loss of nearly 41 billion.
Not to mention the live broadcast with goods, Xiamen Airlines has produced box lunches, Sichuan Airlines has also sent hot pot takeaways...
The company is so bleak, employees naturally can not be spared.
The monthly basic salary of flight attendants is also about two or three thousand yuan, and the main income depends on "flight hour fee + other subsidies".
A working flight attendant broke the news to "Times Finance":
Because of the epidemic, "the highest flight time in the past two years is 70 hours a month, an average of 30-40 hours per month, and a salary of less than 5,000 yuan is the norm." ”
And it will face grounding, "staying at home for three months without flights, less than 2,000 per month, and paying rent." ”
Part-time jobs, career changes, resignations, abound.
They may take self-media as a sideline business, increase their income by bringing goods, popularizing aviation knowledge, sharing beauty and wear, or use their own advantages to develop in etiquette, reception, modeling, and sales.
To some, they seem to have lost their former glory.
But the ear feels:
When a person learns to put down his face and earn money, he will live more steadily and transparently.
The other day I went out to run errands and called an online ride-hailing car.
After chatting with the driver in the car, I found that a year ago he was still working in the same office building as me, doing outdoor training for teenagers, and he was the department manager.
Because of the epidemic, all the projects developed by the company in the early stages were yellow.
It was hard to experience salary cuts and layoffs, and survived 2020. Unexpectedly, in 2021, because of wave after wave of virus counterattack, the company was completely out of play.
At the age of 35, he re-applied for a job, and the same industry was struggling to survive, and his resume was sunk in the sea.
He is not familiar with other industries, and if he wants to learn from scratch, others cannot want a "middle-aged uncle".
Later, a friend introduced him to drive an online car.
At first, he was reluctant and felt that he could not get on the table. Especially when I met my former colleagues and classmates, it was very embarrassing.
Finally, watching the family sit with themselves, they had to register as an online ride-hailing driver.
He said that during the time he was looking for a job, he did not sleep soundly for a day. On the first night of driving a ride-hailing car, all the "worries" seemed to melt away, and he finally slept soundly.
That day was the day he left his job for 1 year.
Maybe that office building evoked too many memories of him, and I think he had a lot to say. But with a sea of people, we can only get along for 20 minutes.
Finally, while waiting in line at an intersection for traffic lights, he also met an acquaintance.
A man stood on the road away, next to which was a small bread, and the trunk was open, filled with various fruits.
The man enthusiastically beckoned every passer-by. However, most people are in a hurry and rarely stop.
The driver master and the man hurriedly said hello.
"Old Chen, didn't you work?"
"I don't live, let's set up a stall."
I don't know what Lao Chen's job is? But at that moment, I clearly saw two ordinary, but sparkling beings.
When the environment is not good, your biggest task is to survive.
At this time, it is nonsense to talk to you about finding a good platform and mentioning what career planning for you.
As long as the money comes cleanly, the gesture of making money is insignificant.
Dou Wentao said on the show in his early years about his principle of making money:
Advertisements that damage the image do not pick up, commercial advertisements that you don't like do not pick up, and commercial activities that do not have grades do not go.
In his opinion, these things are undignified and not upscale.
Until one day his mother suddenly moved into the ICU, he found that he was unable to give his mother better medical conditions.
So those advertising endorsements and wedding hosts that he did not look at, as long as they were formal and legal, he did not refuse.
During that time, his favorite thing to say was:
"It's hard to imagine how hard this life is."
I see a forwarded post on Pulse.
An HR did a special interview with a supervisor from a previous job.
He felt that this old boss was average in ability, an old white rabbit in the workplace, and did not want to be hired.
There is no opinion on this.
But a WeChat message that the applicant was exposed made everyone moved.
"Mr. X, yesterday's interviewer didn't expect it to be you, and it was very kind to meet acquaintances.
In the past, I did not do a good job in the management of the department, and there were my mistakes in your work arrangement, and I regretted that I had lost an excellent employee after you left. I am very happy to see that you have developed so well today.
In January, the company laid off employees, the department I took was dissolved, I looked for a job for 3 months, the pressure of life was very high, the children went to school is the time to use money, help me, I cherish this job opportunity. In the future, under your leadership, I will work hard, please..."
Words are earnest, just by looking at the words, we can all imagine a man looking down to the dust.
Unemployed in middle age, he stomped his dignity under his feet in order to support his family and for the sake of his children. You sigh, but you can't say a word that makes him humble.
I remembered the classic line in Stephen Chow's movie:
"Look, that man is like a dog."
Once angular, he scorned the Supreme Treasure who had gone away on his back. But after experiencing the trials and turns of the world, you will finally understand:
The man who kneels to earn money is even more admirable.
Some readers left a message to the ear:
"In the past 3 years of the epidemic, it has been too difficult. Entrepreneurship failed, whispered to ask for people, and could not find a good job. God has been unfair, let me go through so much embarrassment. ”
In fact, Heaven is not intentional or unintentional, it does not know your existence at all.
People live a lifetime, who doesn't want to be beautiful? But the cruelest thing about life is that it doesn't touch you with the slightest compassion.
At the entrance of the bustling mall, the community security guard wearing a slit dress and dancing and selling art in full view of everyone.
Behind him are his parents, who are suffering from illness in the hospital bed.
As long as the parents are okay and others laugh, laugh.
In the busy streets, drivers parking on the side of the road put their feet up against the windows.
A man seriously shined the driver's shoes.
At home, he may be a thoughtful husband, a kind father. Outside, he was willing to put his head down just to sell one more product.
There was also the female driver who was still running on the street at 1 a.m.
In order to subsidize her family, even on a cold night of minus 10 degrees, she still rode home for two hours without hesitation.
But who knows, she still works in kindergarten during the day?
In this world, everyone has their own difficulties, there is no need to be wronged at every turn, there are many people who are better than you, and there are many people who are worse than you.
In the past few years of the epidemic, we have lost a lot and gained a lot.
Those who hold on are forced to develop the same qualities:
Putting down your batteries and taking responsibility is the greatest decency of an adult.
Remember:
Even in the low bones, there are also their own rivers and rivers.
Just take a breath and don't believe that the heavens will not give food.
Resources:
Times Finance: "The three major airlines lost 41 billion yuan, and the flight attendant live broadcast with the goods into a cabinet sister: 3 months did not have to fly, the monthly salary is less than 2000 yuan"
Computer Newspaper: "Airlines change to deliver takeaways: Xiamen Airlines sells fast food Sichuan Airlines sends hot pot The reason behind it is very sad"