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In the eyes of many people, the high-achieving students who graduated from 985 have taken a big step forward in their lives, and then there are many more opportunities than ordinary people in the future, whether it is the postgraduate examination, the examination or the employment, and a better life is within reach with a little effort.
But why is this 985 top student obsessed with picking up garbage after graduation? 8 years to pick up garbage 1200 square meters, the most unexpected thing is that he made a living by picking up garbage, and he easily achieved financial freedom! Who is this 985 high-achieving student? Why did he go pick up trash?
The top 500 companies are rushing to get the 985 high-quality students
I believe that 99% of 985 high-achieving students hope that they can easily get an ideal job as soon as they leave school and take fewer detours in the workplace. So the remaining 1% of high-achieving students, do they choose to rot, gnaw at the old or wait for the opportunity to come?
Wu Kaisi, a young man born after 95 from Taiyuan, Shanxi, refused when a Fortune 500 company issued a job offer to him! is still willing to continue his life of "picking up garbage", did Wu Kaisi waste his identity as a 985 top student in vain?
With excellent results in the college entrance examination, 18-year-old Wu Kaisi was admitted to South China University of Technology in Guangzhou and became a law college student. In the three years of school, Wu Kaisi has always maintained enough enthusiasm for learning, and has completed four years of university courses in three years, and has properly become a "child of other people's families".
Seeing that he was about to graduate in one year, Wu Kaisi should have used the remaining time to find an internship like other students, seriously refresh his resume, and pave the way for finding a job after graduation, but Wu Kaisi did not do so.
In his junior year, Wu Kaisi was completely unaffected by the people around him, and he packed his bags alone and started his first trip abroad.
As a poor student, his journey was not as unscrupulous as others could go wherever they wanted, and after some thought, Wu Kaisi set his destination on "United States", a liberal, multicultural country. At the beginning, Wu Kaisi just wanted to go abroad to see the world and broaden his horizons, so he did not set an exact return time.
Before going to United States, Wu Kaisi calculated the travel expenses in advance, and did not pay a penny of money that should not be spent! After arriving in the United States, Wu Kaisi did go according to his own budget.
He doesn't live in a hotel, he doesn't eat big meals, parks, airports, and streets can be his temporary stops, and a sandwich can be eaten in two meals. He traveled to the United States for two months and spent only 10,000 yuan.
Of course, Wu Kaisi went to United States not to show how much money he could save, but to rely on his own eyes to perceive life in a foreign country. United States Wu Kaisi came to the city, the biggest gain was to see a dazzling array of "old things" in the flea market.
50 cents to buy an advertising shirt, 8 dollars to buy a U.S. military uniform, as well as a lot of antiques, second-hand items, etc., these old things seem to have a magical attraction, which stimulates Wu Kaisi's desire to explore in the depths of his heart, allowing him to enjoy the experience of visiting the flea market more immersively.
In two months, Wu Kaisi went to 16 cities in the United States and visited 16 flea markets, and he would take precious photos everywhere he went, not only to commemorate them, but also to lay the foundation for him to "pick up garbage" for a living in the future. Before leaving United States, he had already planned the first thing he would do back home!
Wu Kaisi, who likes old things, embarked on the road of "picking up garbage".
What he saw and heard in the United States made Wu Kaisi have an idea - to see with his own eyes the domestic thrift market, is it also like United States, antiques, antiques, second-hand goods?
However, when he opened his mobile phone to search, he found that the information about the domestic thrift market was stuck in 2007, and the domestic thrift market had long been forgotten.
At this time, Wu Kaisi recalled his dedication to "old things", and was a little glad that he had moved frequently with his parents when he was a child.
When he was 8 years old, because of his mother's work, Wu Kaisi moved to Beijing with his parents; In junior high school, he was brought to Shandong by his father; In high school, he went to Hebei to study, and when he was young, he traveled to many places at a young age, and he missed the small items and things left at home even more.
Every time he moved, Wu Kaisi couldn't bear to throw away the small things at home, even if it was a lamp or a note, he wanted to keep them and accompany him all the time.
The careful planning of his parents also made Wu Kaisi develop the habit of not spending money indiscriminately since he was a child, and let him know that many things in life do not necessarily have to be the best, and sometimes you can find good things in the second-hand market.
Wu Kaisi, who likes to buy "second-hand goods" and also likes to collect "old things", after returning to China, he first started from a place he was familiar with, and visited the thrift market in Guangzhou alone, and finally he discovered this self-proclaimed "paradise" Tianguang Ruins. Tianguang Market is a very special market, and it is only when night falls that you can see waves of stall owners setting up their stalls, selling good things that they have found out of nowhere.
As soon as he saw the Tianguang Ruins, Wu Kaisi couldn't walk at all, looking at booths from stall to stall, cutting penny by penny, and finally getting broken stools, rotten chairs, and old photos didn't cost much.
At that time, Wu Kaisi was only a senior student, and every day he was either a dormitory or a Tianguang Ruin, and all the things he picked up could only be moved back to the dormitory.
When Wu Kaisi stuffed more and more things into the dormitory, his roommates and administrators began to be dissatisfied with him, thinking that he was occupying public resources and affecting the management of the dormitory, and the administrator asked him to move things out.
Of course, Wu Kaisi also understands the feelings of his roommates and caretakers, so he saves 1,000 yuan a month for living expenses, just to rent a small house outside and place these "old things" well.
After his parents found out that he was obsessed with "picking up garbage", they were worried that he would really be so unprofessional in the future, so they hurriedly asked someone to introduce him to a job, hoping that he could become a migrant worker in a down-to-earth manner. As a result, when he learned that his parents had arranged a job for him, Wu Kaisi resolutely refused the job offer and made up his mind to live with these "garbage" in the future.
Wu Kaisi's decision made his parents very shocked, helpless, and puzzled, so even though he later achieved financial freedom by "picking up garbage", his parents still insisted that Wu Kaisi describe himself as an "antique collector" so as not to be made fun of.
Alternative Wu Kaisi, 8 years to pick up 1200 square meters
Other people's dreams are to be teachers, lawyers, doctors, and scientists, but Wu Kaisi's dream is to "pick up garbage", to be a veritable waste picker, not to mention that he is still a 985 top student, such a dream is really incredible.
Before graduating, Wu Kaisi tried to "buy old things to make money", turning a small rental house into a private collection, attracting like-minded people to visit, and randomly choose what he likes, and sell it at the right price. But this kind of casual sales is not profitable at all, and it is even posted upside down every month.
Wu Kaisi, who has no other source of income, can only continue to "pick up garbage" while trying to find a way. He fell in love with "picking up garbage" and also developed a good habit of categorizing.
The good things he picked up from the Philippines, Hong Kong, Guizhou and other parts of the world were classified according to clothing, decorations, artworks, and daily necessities, and finally he found a new idea to make money!
Wu Kaisi used the wooden planks, steel frames, iron wires and other tools he picked up to build an old museum full of ancient atmosphere - called the Arsenal Old Things Museum.
Here, you can see the old books that Wu Kaisi picked up from all over the world, you can appreciate the old antiques such as radios and televisions with the mark of time, and you can also touch the broken thread embroidered Miao clothes for 10,000 yuan a piece· · · · ··
After opening the Arsenal Old Objects Museum, Wu Kaisi officially started the life of "selling old things" for a living, and he also gradually opened up the fame of the Arsenal Old Things Museum through salons and old things exhibitions, so that more people can know, understand and like his unique "scavenging" life.
Wu Kaisi also appeared on CCTV news because of this, and became the post-95 youth that the media focused on. In the CCTV report, Wu Kaisi still wore a big pants, a big vest, and stepped on a pair of flip-flops to appear in the camera, and what was captured under the camera was his daily life of "picking up garbage", as well as the old museum full of "garbage".
In the face of media interviews and attention, Wu Kaisi was not excited, nervous or excited, he just calmly described to the camera the reason why he "picked up garbage", and also calmly faced the doubts and criticisms of others.
He's just doing what he likes, just guarding his dreams, and doesn't care about other people's eyes and ideas.
From graduating from college in 2015, to officially opening an old museum in 2016, and then to being on CCTV news in 2017, Wu Kaisi spent 3 years proving that "picking up garbage" can also live the life he wants.
Today, Wu Kaisi has been "picking up garbage" for 8 years, picking up 1200 square meters in 8 years, and the old museum has also opened from a small alley to the commercial area.
Wu Kaisi not only achieved the "freedom" of wealth, but also achieved the "freedom" of thought, personality, and identity, and lived an "alternative" life in the eyes of others.
epilogue
The story of 985 high-achieving student Wu Kaisi, who achieved financial freedom by picking up garbage, sounded absurd, but the result shocked many people! Whether it is a part-time job, a stall, or picking up rags, or starting a business, it is just a choice in life, and there is no distinction between high and low.
Wu Kaisi's choice is based on his clear knowledge and understanding of himself, and he has achieved another kind of "freedom" with his own hands, which is not a thing worth encouraging, so no one has the right to judge Wu Kaisi's behavior, let alone question Wu Kaisi's choice.
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"After graduating from 985, I chose to collect the rags, 8 years have passed, "I have been rich and free"
"I, graduated from 985 and made a living by picking up rags"
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