Dahe News Yu video reporter Du Qianwen Intern Xu Yan
"Play until the wee hours of the morning, sleep until noon" and "go out without money, and be scolded at home", this is the summary of the current situation of many college students on their summer life.
But there are also a group of college students, they say "goodbye" to themselves who "lie flat" at home, from "college students" to "businessmen", go out to set up stalls under the scorching sun, and use social media to share their stall life, and enrich their holidays with busyness.
At the end of the summer life, the reporter of Dahe Daily Yu Video "See" contacted a number of "post-zero" college students to listen to their joy and hard work, efforts and gains in this summer.
Li Tong, who sells summer drinks: made a net income of 3,500 yuan and found his sister to invest in equipment
Search for tutorials, learn experiences, find my sister and invest a thousand yuan to buy equipment and materials... Li Tong, a sophomore majoring in marketing at Anhui University of Technology, started from scratch this summer vacation and sold summer drinks.
"The heat is unbearable, drinks are a must-have product, and the cost of making drinks is relatively low, so for me, a new college student, even if I fail, I can accept the cost loss." After Li Tong confirmed his business products, he began to gradually experiment at home, from simple orange juice, to complex jasmine green lychee drink, jasmine ice soy milk, Li Tong continued to improve the product according to the suggestions of family and friends, and finally officially set up a stall.
The life of the stall is not as smooth as Li Tong thought at the beginning, the body is tired, the business is not good, the cost of some drinks is too high and the production is troublesome, and no one watches the stall life shared on social media... Li Tong's initial desire to run a beverage business and operate a self-media account was poured with cold water by reality.
But perseverance will be rewarded, and with this belief, Li Tong set up stalls on the streets of small counties for nearly two months, and finally ushered in the dawn of victory.
"One day my mobile phone alert sounded crazy, and when I clicked on it, I found that a short video sharing my summer stall life exploded." Li Tong's popular short video received more than 700 likes, "Although the number of likes is not very large, it has a very huge motivating effect on me." ”
Li Tong said that since the beginning of July, he has earned a net income of 3,500 yuan from setting up a stall, which is enough to offset the living expenses of two months at school, in addition, the total number of views of the stall videos he has shared on various social media has exceeded one million. ”
At the end of August, Li Tong plans to return to school to prepare for graduate school, "Next, I will continue to shoot short videos to record my postgraduate examination process, this stall experience has undoubtedly accumulated experience for me to enter the field of self-media, and also accumulated the courage to open up a way for future life." ”
Lou Ming, who sells orange juice in Sanya: gave up his vacation and switched from game training to selling orange juice
"I came to Sanya with the money I saved from my game practice, rented a house for two months, and planned to enjoy the sun and the beach." Lou Ming, who is about to be in his senior year, came to Sanya for a vacation in the summer, and at first he relied on the list of games and substitutes to offset the travel expenses, but after a week of such days, he felt tired.
Lou Ming said: "I have been playing games in the room, I feel quite bored, my body can't stand it, and I am afraid that after a long time, my interpersonal communication skills will regress." Later, Lou Ming found out on the Internet that many people were setting up stalls to sell orange juice, and he decided to give it a try, which was also a unique experience.
First of all, Lou Ming spent 900 yuan to buy the equipment needed to squeeze orange juice and various small items needed to set up a stall, and then bought a batch of oranges from multiple online stores online, and selected an online store as a long-term source of goods.
Since then, Lou Ming, who lived in Sanya for a short time, pushed a cart to squeeze orange juice onto the streets of Sanya.
Not adapted to the identity of a small vendor, afraid of the eyes of others, the location of the stall is not fixed, pulling forty pounds of oranges but selling one or two glasses of orange juice a day... Lou Ming, who was "socially afraid", encountered many difficulties in setting up a stall for the first time, "At that time, I was indeed a little retreated, thinking that it was better to continue to go back to the rental house as a game substitute." But then I felt that I still had to stick with it and at least earn back the money invested in the equipment. ”
With this "stubbornness", Lou Ming re-examined the location of the stall, got rid of the label of "social fear", and began to learn to "shout", since August, Lou Ming's orange juice business has improved, earning 3,700 yuan in only half a month.
Unwilling to do this, Lou Ming continued to think of new ideas, he learned cheese box making skills from the Internet, and tried to sell it, "new" his orange juice shop. Lou Ming said that during the time he set up a stall in Sanya, he made a net profit of nearly 3,000 yuan excluding costs, "Now I came to Changsha with this money, planning to have fun and treat myself." ”
Talking about future plans, Lou Ming said that he plans to use his spare time to continue setting up stalls near the school, "This kind of thing can enrich my after-school life, and it will make me feel a sense of motivation about life, and I like this feeling." ”
Wen Xin: The stall closed down after more than ten days, and life is all about experience
"At that time, I saw that the ice rice balls were very popular on the Internet, and I thought that the weather was so hot, the ice rice balls should sell well, so I discussed with my friends to set up a stall." Wen Xin, who was studying at a university in Nanjing, set up a stall with friends to sell ice rice balls in his hometown of Guang'an, Sichuan Province this summer.
Wen Xin said that she and her friends set up a stall to sell iced rice balls to pass the boring summer vacation life: "We are not for money, only for experience." ”
With the "start-up capital" provided by his family, Wen Xin and his friends bought the items and materials needed to set up the stall, and inspected and selected the stall location, "We chose a street with a lot of people and many stalls, and every day at 6 pm, we took the iced rice balls that had been made for three or four hours to 'go to work' on time, and remained open until 10 pm." ”
The hardships of setting up the stall exceeded Wen Xin's imagination, and in less than half a month, Wen Xin's ice tangyuan stall declared "bankruptcy": "After cutting out the cost, we earned a total of 80 yuan, and my friend and I each shared 40 yuan." ”
In the face of failure, Wen Xin accepted it calmly, she concluded: "The main reason for our failure is that there are too many stalls selling similar drinks in the vicinity, and the competition is fierce. ”
However, Wen Xin said that the biggest gain from this stall was a different experience. "Once, a few colleagues next to us saw that our iced rice balls were not sold out, so they helped us sell them, which made us very moved." Wen Xin said that there are many experiences in life, you always have to try to feel it, she is very fortunate to have this failed stall experience, "enrich the summer vacation life, improve social skills, think I still earned a lot." ”
(The above names are pseudonyms, photo provided by interviewee)
Source: Dahe News Yu Video Editor: You Xiaopeng