331 That year, a girl asked me about going to work in the Angolan clubhouse
Preface:
The development of the Internet has made many inexplicable encounters in our lives, so we know many things, but as we learn more and more, a lot of helplessness also catches us off guard, and there is always a moment that hits my sadness. It is that: although we know so many human sufferings, we can only be an incompetent person. I thought that coming to Angola alone in Africa was already the top of the Miserable World, but later I learned that there was someone else in the ceiling of the Les Misérables, and I was still a happy person living in a honeypot. Nagging wrote so much, it is a preface
Many years ago, I posted something on "Heaven", and for some reason, I later sent something to "Tieba", sharing my joys and sorrows on the Internet, venting my helplessness, and recording the bits and pieces of my life.
At that time, Angola's Internet fees were very expensive, basically it was not affordable, because at that time, the low Internet fees had to be borne by themselves, so they did not send much, but at that time, there were very few posts about Angola on the Internet, and I still sent more.
Around 2016, the company installed the network, the kind of traffic, so the Internet can be unscrupulous, do not have to worry about the cost.
One day I was checking the content of the private message and suddenly found a message: I am a single mother, someone introduced me to work in a certain club in Angola, saying that as a waiter can earn 30,000 yuan per month, please ask there is a so-and-so club? Will the passport be confiscated immediately when you go to a clubhouse? Will it control personal freedom? (The content is generally so)
When I saw this private message, my first reaction was that this person must have listened to the fools of others and was deceived, because in Angola there are no ordinary workers who can earn 30,000 yuan, and ordinary cadres have an annual salary of nearly 400,000 yuan a year.
So-and-so clubhouse I know, since the job jump, the position is high someone invited me to this clubhouse to eat, in my opinion the environment is quite OK, much better than some domestic restaurants, according to my understanding of his home is a set of accommodation, catering, casino, bathing and what have a large comprehensive club (I don't know if this is right, anyway, as long as you want to do, no one has it)
So, I told her in a private message that I had eaten at this clubhouse, and told her that although I had not asked how much money the domestic waiters over there could earn, the masons and reinforcement workers and drivers on the construction site could not earn thirty thousand yuan per month, and the ordinary waiters certainly could not earn so much.
Such a high salary can only be for other industries, and I asked her in a private message: Did the person who introduced you to Angola tell me what position you were working for?
Later, she replied in a private letter, saying that the introducer had said that the occupation he had worked in after arriving in Angola was the front desk of the clubhouse, and that the introducer worked at the clubhouse. Heck, it's more certain that someone else is fooling her. In my opinion, it is impossible to earn 30,000 yuan per month, and if this position can earn 10,000 yuan a month, it is not bad. Also thirty thousand... Impossible.
In my reply to her, I introduced the Chinese salaries I learned, from the waiters in the food supermarket at that time to the salesmen of building materials construction to the travel agency who got the tickets, and then to the translators of my new company and the salary of the vice president, and I made it clear that there were very few people who could achieve an annual salary of about 400,000. At the end of the private message, I told her: they are all adults, let's just say it, are you coming to Angola to be a little sister?
When she returned to the private message, she clearly admitted that she was going to be a little sister, and she said that she wanted to take advantage of the young years to earn some money for her children, but she was worried that she would not be able to earn the promised money after coming out, and she was afraid that the passport would not be able to be returned. I told her that as far as I knew, there were people who made money in this industry and those who didn't make money, but it was definitely not thirty thousand yuan a month.
I calculated an account for him at that time, I bought a plane ticket to get a visa to spend about 40,000 yuan, before 2014, each guest was about 50 US dollars, that is, about 300 yuan, 40,000 divided by 300 about 133.33 guests to earn back the air ticket money and visa fees. Deduct 3 to 6 days of vacation per month, and work an average of about 26 days per month. If you want to earn enough 30,000 per month, you need to have at least 100 guests per month and at least 5 or so guests per day. If you sign on arrival, you can only stay for three months and can't earn round-trip airfare money.
However, I heard that the clubhouse is to take away 40%--60%, people provide venues, meals, TT and all the materials, if you calculate at least about 200 guests per month to ensure an income of 30,000 yuan, how many guests are needed to work 26 days a month?
But the point is that these data are calculated according to the 2014 exchange rate before the depreciation, after 2014, the Angolan currency depreciated, from the original 100 kwanza for 1 US dollar to 500 for 1 US dollar, the worst time 600 kuanza for 1 US dollar, 5 thousand kuanza from the original equivalent of about 300 yuan to the contract 60--100 yuan (the interest of exchange rate fluctuations during that time, one price a day).
Besides, after the visa came down, the distance from the person to Angola, about a month or so of waste in the middle, and then count the fear of visa expiry before returning to The country is afraid of the visa expiring one month in advance to return to The real working time is less than 11 months...
Anyway, I was dizzy, but that's generally what it meant. After thinking about it for half a day, I think this is a mathematical problem, and now the basic conditions are:
1. The ticket and visa are paid by themselves, about 40,000 or 50,000.
2. If each guest is about 60--100 yuan per 5000 kuanza, plus the 15000 kuanza of the bag and night is about 150--200 yuan.
So here's the question:
1. How many guests do I have to earn back my ticket money? Are there so many customers?
2. How many guests do I need to earn enough 30,000 yuan per month? Are there so many customers?
3. How much can I earn per year (one visa cycle)?
4. It is said that the population of Chinese in Angola has dropped from about 500,000 to less than 500,000 to less than 50,000, and due to the economic crisis, companies selling equipment and selling things are busy evacuating. How many more people are going to spend? Even if it is to consume, the frequency is much lower than the original.
The conclusion is that it is absolutely impossible to earn 30,000 yuan a month. That doesn't include the money lost back home from the black market.
Later, I contacted me several times in private messages, nothing more than about the charging issue (how much money each guest has, whether the price has increased), the clubhouse does not deduct passports, and the black market will lose a few points to return home.
I told her that the current charging standard is still 5,000 widezas per guest, bags, nights 15,000 widezas, the exchange rate is 500 or 600 widezas for 1 dollar, but sometimes it is 400 widezas for 1 dollar, which is not accurate, as for the clubhouse deduction of passports I do not know, but the general company will concentrate on keeping passports, the black market to return to China to lose a few points I do not know, because my salary is all domestic yuan.
And again told her that because of the exchange rate problem and other problems, many domestic enterprises have withdrawn, with the reduction of Chinese the business of this industry has also been dismal, many people engaged in this industry have also withdrawn, and now the Vietnamese occupy and dominate this market (maybe this exchange rate vietnamese can accept, or say... More than vietnamese earned? Who knows, but they are all bitter people)
Finally I said: You, you are only thinking about Angola late now, if you advance to 2013, maybe you can really earn 300,000 yuan or 400,000 yuan a year, now it is not OK, think of other ways! You can ask the person who introduced you to work: exchange rate problem, don't stop at the exchange rate in 2012 and 2013, and then ask how much the cost of a guest is converted into rmb.
And then later... A private message said: Big brother, I am working in Hong Kong. Since then, there has been no contact.
Another: One year, when I returned to China on vacation to transfer to the Airport in South Africa, I saw a little Vietnamese girl trapped at the airport because her passport and ticket were completely lost. As we sat down in our chairs to rest, she came over and asked in Portuguese and English whether we wanted to spend, oh my God, how did this world come to this? After politely refusing, I left her a bottle of water and a little snack. As for whether her things are really lost or fake lost, I don't know, but I just heard her say that she wanted to earn money to go home.
Supplement:
Nagging wrote so much, afraid that it can not pass the review, so it has been while writing while deleting, deleting and modifying, trying to think about what kind of words to use to express the correct meaning, after writing and then looking at it, I feel that the whole word is not up to the mark, but I am not a professional author, I don't want to change it again, just like this, hard work everyone makes up for it.
This world is inherently cold, and the deceit is rampant, and all the dust is wandering, and the body is difficult for oneself, and the world is suffering. Who is also the heart and liver baby of parents, if you can not reach the extreme difficulties, who is willing to be in danger to go to a foreign country!!
And I met a little bit of help. Because everyone is a layman who strives to make money, as a mortal, he has nothing but to make money and take care of his family. But it is still the same sentence: although we know so many human sufferings, we can only be an powerless person. Come on, bro. Fox Fairy 2022.6.22 Night