Gao Fan carefully counted the food stamps, put them into his schoolbag, and then asked with a smile: "How is it, Lao Ba, can this kind of business still work?"
"It's great!" Wu Zixian said happily. "In just one morning, I made 10 yuan. I never dreamed of it. On the bus back, I was still thinking that it is so easy to make money in business.
.If you do sales every day, it won’t be a problem to make five or six hundred yuan a month.”
"Are there so many?" Gao Fan was stunned and couldn't believe it.
He had previously helped Wu Zixian arrange a job selling socks, thinking that he could earn some money by selling socks, which would allow Wu Zixian to subsidize his living expenses so that he would not live in such a tight situation.
He didn't have a very clear idea in his mind about how much money he could make from selling socks. Now when he heard Wu Zixian say it, he was shocked.
In this era, when a college graduate goes to work, his monthly salary is only more than 50 yuan. How can he earn 500 to 600 yuan a month by selling some socks?
However, Wu Zixian's algorithm is indeed correct, and even a bit conservative. Wu Zixian just carried some socks to sell. If he had some other small commodities, he would probably earn more than 10 yuan in one morning. Calculated in this way, in a month
It is not impossible to make profits in the thousands.
Gao Fan thought about it for a moment and felt relieved.
There are still very few people doing things like selling socks in colleges and universities. Wu Zixian is equivalent to running a unique business, so the price can be quoted relatively high, and sales are not a problem.
If more people do the same thing and compete with each other, the price will definitely not be able to maintain the current level. It is not easy to sell 40 pairs of socks in one morning.
There are two reasons why there are few people doing this business. First, the commodity economy atmosphere here in Beijing is not strong yet, and there are few people doing business. Second, others can’t find cheap sources of goods if they want to do it. Gao Fan got it through Chen Xingquan.
My cousin just got these socks.
In fact, Chen Xingquan's cousin is doing business in Beijing and the profits are very large. He can earn at least several thousand yuan a month. If Wu Zixian goes out to sell every day, with his status as a Peking University student, he can indeed make a business in his university dormitory.
It's not surprising that you can make five or six hundred yuan a month if you are doing well.
"What, you're planning to skip school and start a business?" Gao Fan asked half-jokingly and half-seriously, and at the same time he was slightly worried. He had good intentions and didn't end up doing something bad. What if Wu Zixian was addicted to making money and didn't want to go to school?
I have committed a very heinous crime.
In this era, university teachers don’t care much about class attendance. In the eyes of the teachers, those who can come to university are elites from all over the country and people who can take responsibility for themselves. These students are definitely willing to come to class or choose to skip class.
Everyone has their own reasons.
If they can learn well on their own without having to attend classes, why should the teacher interfere?
If they choose to lie down and give up, that is a matter for everyone. There is no need for university teachers to hold students by their ears like middle school teachers.
In fact, even at Peking University, there are students who lie flat.
Gao Fan has only been in school for more than a month, and he has already heard that some seniors skipped classes and played mahjong in the dormitory. These great masters usually do not attend class, but they can get a passing grade by reading books before the exam. What can you do to them?
?
There are also people like Yang Kai, who didn’t take many classes when he was an undergraduate, but in terms of professional skills, he is the best at his level. Yang Kai’s undergraduate thesis amazed several old professors.
I wanted to accept him as a graduate student, but he declined. Should the teacher worry about whether such a student can attend class?
Because he knew this, Gao Fan was a little doubtful whether Wu Zixian really wanted to skip school and do salesmanship. After all, earning 10 yuan a day would be a great temptation for a child from a poor mountainous area like Wu Zixian.
Wu Zixian shook his head and said: "I have really thought about this, but it's just a thought. It's not easy for me to study, so I can't delay my studies.
"I have thought about it. From now on, I will go out to do sales every Sunday and earn 40 yuan a month. I plan to send 20 yuan home a month so that my family can send my younger brothers and sisters to school. The rest
I want to save the money and use it for graduate school in the future.”
"You want to go to graduate school? Didn't you originally say that you wanted to find a job with good benefits after graduation?" Gao Fan asked in surprise.
During the sleep-talk meeting in the dormitory, everyone talked about their ideals. No one said they wanted to go to graduate school. Everyone's ideal was to find a good employer and work.
Nowadays, every unit is in desperate need of college students. Every year, hundreds of large units come to Peking University to recruit people. The number of places is several times more than the number of graduates. Graduates can basically choose their own units.
Under such circumstances, who is still interested in studying hard for a few years as a graduate student? By the time you graduate, others will have been working in the unit for several years, and may have been promoted to section chief, deputy director, etc. You
Having only a graduate degree, but still having to work under a former classmate, how could life be more depressing than this?
Wu Zixian said: "I originally said this, the main reason is that my family is too poor, I have to go to work quickly to make money to help my family. But now, I found that I can make money while studying, so I don't have to rush to work. In fact,
, I still want to study.”
"So that's it." Gao Fan understood, and thinking of his own confusion, he asked, "Baby, have you ever thought about what you plan to do after graduate school?"
Wu Zixian replied without hesitation: "If possible, I would like to stay in school and teach."
"Teaching is a job, can you bear it?" Gao Fan asked.
In Gao Fan's memory, it was not until the new century that the salary of teachers in colleges and universities became relatively better, and becoming a teacher in colleges and universities gradually became a good choice. Counting from now on, in the next 20 years, teaching will be
Being a hard worker, why did Wu Zixian want to stay in school and teach?
Wu Zixian smiled shyly and said: "Gao Fan, if I say it, you can't laugh at me. I know you know a lot, so you can help me evaluate it to see if my idea is too whimsical.
.”
"Go ahead." Gao Fan said.
Wu Zixian said: "Actually, I had an ideal when I was in middle school, and it was precisely because of this ideal that I chose the Department of Chemistry."
"What ideal?"
"I want to study how to synthesize starch from carbon dioxide."
"..."
Gao Fan opened his mouth wide and looked at Wu Zixian, not knowing what to say for a moment.