Since one of my classmates retired from the army, his job has been unstable - he has opened an online shop, worked as a general worker in an electronics factory, and opened "Didi". Later, Yin and Yang took the current wife and was a local tour guide. Slowly, he also began to contact the tourism industry and became a "local guide".
In those years, the tourism industry was relatively hot, so he and his wife discussed opening a small travel agency.
Business was good in the beginning. The couple was too busy to come, and they recruited someone. No, after the epidemic last year, their small travel agency did not hold on, and like many small shops, it closed down.
Now the couple is still doing this line. Every day, you can see the photos and videos he sent in the circle of friends - all of them are in various scenic spots.
I was quite envious at first. However, the meal time posted in his circle of friends is not punctual, and it is all casually confused (sometimes fried rice, sometimes instant noodles). I instantly felt as if his job wasn't so comfortable anymore.
I was in touch with his elementary school classmates for years. So I know him very well.
In fact, he is quite stressed. I graduated from junior high school with a low education, and later I seemed to read an adult undergraduate. His parents were authentic farmers, and he and his brother had lived in a small, dilapidated bungalow in the countryside.
A few years ago, in order to get married, he gritted his teeth, borrowed money to buy a house in the county mortgage, and also engaged in decoration. Now, he has given birth to his second child, and one of his two daughters is in the first grade.
His eldest daughter seems to have enrolled in interest classes (interest classes are not cheap).
I helped him calculate that his family's monthly mortgage plus the cost of raising a child (the youngest is only 2 years old) plus daily household expenses, there is no 5,000 can not come. Coupled with the instability of the industry he has been engaged in in the past two years. For a while, he was also ready to change his career to a shoe factory to work as a general worker. As a result, when he inquired about the salary, he still gave up.
He told me that it didn't matter if he was tired now, but now he was afraid that even if he had the strength, he wouldn't be able to do it. After all, the burden of the family is all on him. (In the past two years, the wife has been at home with children, and the number of running orders is not much)
Yes, now our batch of post-80s if it is from an ordinary family, there is no help, to maintain the home, it is indeed not a small pressure.
Come on, come on! (Also an encouragement to myself)