My parents and elder brothers didn't know about my divorce at first. After all, the situation of my parents' family at that time was not very good. An elder brother who lost the ability to work due to a serious injury was enough to make my parents sad. My father was also in very bad health at that time.
Okay, I don't want to irritate these two old people anymore.
In addition to being allocated a small house when I got divorced, I also had nearly 100,000 yuan of personal money from my marriage to Deng Wenliang. This part of the money was originally reserved for our small family, which is my personal point.
My income also included some money that Deng Wenliang gave me every month. I saved it when I couldn't spend it all.
Originally, with this amount of money, I was not busy looking for a job, so I could carefully consider the position that suited me. However, as the saying goes, it rained all the time. Just when I resigned and was about to find a job, my father fell ill again.
Falling down, the early symptoms of stroke are very dangerous.
Because of the situation at home at that time, a sick brother could not help at all. My mother was already in her late seventies and could not accompany her to take care of the patient. Therefore, I was in the hospital to take care of my father during the time he was admitted to hospital, and my savings
Half of it was spent on my father’s medical expenses, because some special drugs cannot be reimbursed by medical insurance.
In this way, after my father's condition becomes stable and he returns home from the hospital, I will have to be busy looking for another job, because I don't have much savings in my hands anymore, and I must have a decent income to support my future life. At the same time, I
I also want to obtain custody of my daughter Tongtong, which requires a stable and decent job.
However, after several interviews, I became more and more disappointed.
Because my actual situation at that time was not optimistic. I was close to 35 years old and had been at home for more than three years. Although I was nominally doing accounting work part-time in Shen Tianlin's company for more than three years, in fact, this part-time job was
Experience is not accepted by regular companies, and they will automatically regard this experience as being unemployed.
Formal large companies attach great importance to employees’ previous career experience. As a woman in her thirties who has been unemployed at home for more than three years, you can be said to be uncompetitive in the workplace. A well-known company will consider your previous home experience
It makes you disconnected from society and unable to engage in high-precision financial work; private small businesses are very age-sensitive. They generally set the entry age below 30 years old because the accounting personnel they recruit not only have to engage in financial work, but also work part-time in the office
To do some other jobs, they need young people who are strong and agile, so the employees of such companies are generally under the age of thirty. In this way, a woman in my thirties does not have an advantage.
So I encountered an unprecedented problem and couldn't find a suitable job for a while.
Go back to Shen Tianlin's company?
Of course, this idea is not feasible. Let’s not talk about what he has against me. Let’s just say that I proposed the resignation myself. As the saying goes, a good horse never turns back. For the sake of the remaining integrity in my heart, I can’t do it.
Eat this and turn back.
However, if I don't return to Shen Tianlin's company, I really won't be able to find a job that can match the salary he gave me.
During this period, I was very hesitant. I kept wondering, what should I do next?
Because I am looking for a job again at this age, I belong to a relatively embarrassing group of people. Compared with those young people in their early twenties who have just graduated from college a few years ago, I am definitely not competitive.
And my experience of being unemployed at home for several years also made it difficult for me to enter some large-scale enterprises. If I couldn't enter such an enterprise, I could only enter some relatively informal small businesses, which meant that the salary would not be too high.
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At that time, I always had an idea in my mind, which was to do something by myself, starting slowly like a small business. Haichao was always by my side to give me advice. We had an idea at that time to open a fast food restaurant, but after several times
After planning it, I felt it was not feasible.
At this time, an out-of-town friend whom Haichao met wanted to go back to his hometown because his wife was about to have a baby, so he wanted to sell a small spicy hotpot shop that was opened next to a busy street in the urban village. So, Haichao and I went to visit the place.
After visiting the store, we all felt that the location and size of the store were very suitable, so we wanted to purchase that store.
That store is located in an urban village. This kind of place has already been included in the scope of urban planning, so sooner or later it will be demolished. However, as long as the government does not come to force demolition, this kind of place will be bustling with traffic and is a good place to make money.
, very popular.
Because there are many cheap rental houses around the urban village, and there are many cheap snack bars on both sides of the street. These conditions meet the needs of a large number of working people living in the city. What Haichao and I like is the cheap rent and the large number of people here.
There is a large flow of people, and the rent here is much cheaper than regular commercial stores in the city. It is suitable for small businesses like us who are entering the sea for the first time to practice our skills.
Now that the idea has been decided, we immediately put it into practice. The lease agreement for the store was quickly completed. The rent was paid by me personally, because I am running the store in general, and Hai Chao is just a symbolic entry point.
Well, actually she was mainly helping me.
After renting the house, we found someone to clean it up briefly, repainted the walls, and put up a brighter plaque. This kind of place does not pay attention to luxurious decoration at all, and it is surrounded by low-wage working people.
, so as long as it is simple, practical and clean, it will be fine.
We bought some necessary supplies for opening a Malatang shop from the original shop owner, such as tables, chairs, dishes, refrigerators, freezers, etc., as well as some tools for making Malatang, which saved us from having to buy it again. In addition,
, we added some necessary daily necessities.
In the process of doing this, Haichao helped me go to the industrial and commercial, taxation and other departments to go through the relevant procedures for opening a store, because she is much more familiar with all aspects than me. I really want to thank her as a good friend who I have never met before.
Helped me a lot.
There is a fairly small vegetable market next to the village in the city. There are all kinds of vegetables, fruits, fresh meats and poultry, so it is very convenient for me to open a spicy hotpot shop. I also recruited a little girl from Sichuan to help me.
, it can be said that everything is ready and all we need is the east wind.
One sunny day, our small shop finally opened!
Our shop door is usually open, with a row of shabu-shabu racks set up at the door. The soup inside is prepared by me according to the secret recipe provided by the original shop owner. Usually, I mainly stay at the door of the shop and personally prepare the ingredients for customers.
The store is not large. In addition to placing some necessary items in the refrigerator and freezer, there are also four small square tables. Some customers like to sit down and eat, so they will walk into the store and sit down to eat slowly. We also provide some
Small pickles with unique flavor.
The little girl I hired is mainly responsible for greeting the customers in the store, and then helping me with the work.
When opening a snack bar like this, you don't have to be afraid of hardship, because if you want to make more money, you have to get up early and stay late and not be lazy.
Every morning, I go to the store at seven o'clock to make all the preparations needed for the day and welcome customers.
In the evening, we usually don't finish work until around nine o'clock. On holidays when there is a particularly large flow of people, we have to follow the off-duty time.
At the same time, my working environment is mainly outdoors. This will definitely cause some damage to a woman's appearance. Sun protection and beauty are out of the question.
But I didn't take it seriously at all. Until this moment, I really felt that a woman's beauty no longer meant much to me. I just wanted to eat a bowl of rice that I could with my own hands.
I was fully mentally prepared for the hard work of opening this store when I first opened it. After all, I had encountered the biggest hardships in my life before, first getting divorced and then losing my job. At that time, I didn’t have much money.
I was repeatedly frustrated when looking for a job that matched my major. Various circumstances forced me to find a well-paying job as soon as possible, and this snack bar suited my situation at that time.
As long as this kind of small shop is willing to endure hardships, the income can be quite good. It can be said that this small business has small profits but quick turnover.
Because of this, I gritted my teeth and opened this small shop. During that time, I came home with backache every night and my whole body felt like it was falling apart. The hard work involved is self-evident.
However, at the end of each month, when I calculate the huge net profit for the month, all the pain in my heart disappears, because the great joy of harvest has completely replaced all the hard work I suffered before.
It was a Saturday afternoon, the weather was hazy and it felt like there was a heavy fog.
On this day, because all the migrant workers and students who rented accommodation nearby were at home on vacation, our business was particularly good, and it could be said that we were extremely busy.
The Sichuan girl I recruited is called Xiaomei. She speaks Mandarin with a Sichuan flavor and helps me warmly greet the customers in the store, while I keep busy in front of the shabu-shabu rack.
At this time, I didn't even notice that there was a person standing about one meter away from me, staring at me for a long time.
It wasn't until the customers in front of me gradually dispersed that I took the time to raise my head and glance at that person. In fact, I later noticed that there was a person who seemed to have been looking at me, but I didn't have time to look up at him.
Now, I finally raised my head and took a serious look at that person. At that time, I was stunned.