This big sister in Hangzhou plays five jobs a day, saving money to buy two suites, some users praise that my sister is also very powerful, earn more than 10,000 a month, higher than my income! However, you may not imagine that behind them is a field of sweat and tears “practice”
Growing up being “patriarchal”, two failed marriages
After being cheated out of her savings by her boyfriend, she chose to start over
My childhood was not a good one, and like many patriarchal families, the hard work was always mine, and the good Food and clothes were always my brother’s. Every day after school, I carried my backpack all the way to collect sweet potatoes, went Home to look for firewood, fed the pigs and ducks. When I finished all the chores and was ready to do my homework, it was dark. At that Time, the kerosene lamp was still lit, and my mother said, “What homework to write? It’s a waste of kerosene! Girls don’t need to study!”
Both of my marriages ended in failure. In my first Marriage, the man was unable to have children. In my second marriage, the man was a domestic abuser. I was working as a lobby manager in a hotel in Beijing, and he was the back chef of the hotel. He divorced me in order to marry another woman, and his son was awarded to him.
When my elder sister was young
I returned to Chongqing alone and tried to find a job in a hotel, but suddenly I found that times had changed, and I couldn’t get into a decent job without Education or connections.
Fortunately, I still had some savings, and I also met a new boyfriend. When we were talking about marriage, he borrowed 100,000 yuan from me, saying that he wanted to do business, I borrowed money from relatives and friends in addition to my own savings. Two weeks later, he evaporated.
During that time, I walked to a nearby mountain every day, crying, tired of crying, really want to end it all. But when I thought of my son, my Parents, my feet came back from the edge of the cliff.
One cannot live just for oneself. I want to go to a city where no one knows me and start over.
When I first came to Hangzhou, I spent the night in an Internet cafe
After I found a job, I started a small business at night
In 2012, I came to Hangzhou. I spent the day looking for an agent to look for a room, and spent the night in an Internet cafe. It was cheaper than staying in a hotel, as it only cost 10 yuan for a night in an Internet cafe. I don’t know how to play computer, purely to have a chair to sit, and not be rained on rainy days.
Five days later, I found a farmer’s room of less than 20 square meters in the triangle village of Qiaosi, with a monthly rent of 200 yuan.
That day, I saw a clothing store entrance written “recruiting Taobao distribution clerk”, so I went to apply for the job. I purposely wore a wedding leather jacket, high-grade leather shoes, looking quite elegant. But the boss asked: will not computer, I was baffled, straight shaking his head.
The boss lady said, “There is no work for you here, you can go back.
I refused to go. I told the boss: I can do everything except computers, let me work for a week first, if I am not satisfied, I do not want to be paid for this week.
The boss agreed to let me go to the warehouse to match the goods, what the shipper wants, I quickly find a good packing. Such a simple job, but I do not easy at all. The store mainly sells silk scarves, the pattern of silk scarves are very similar, the consignor said what you want, I remembered at the time, to the warehouse to turn their heads and forget.
Big sister’s selfie
I pinch my hands and thighs hard to make myself “remember better”. A few days down, the body bruises a piece of purple, but finally figured out a set of fast to find the memory of the silk scarf method, work efficiency has improved a lot.
When I am not busy, I see the shelves are messy, I will clean up. When the toilet was dirty, I cleaned it. After a few days, the boss’s wife thought I was pretty good. I took the opportunity to propose: there are so many silk scarves in stock, can I take some to the night market to sell? Sold, the money earned to you, I just want to exercise a little.
The boss lady thought about it and agreed. On the first day, I took 50 silk scarves and hawked them in my hand, selling them for 5 yuan, 10 yuan and 15 yuan respectively, and sold them all in one night. The next day, I changed a burlap bag and carried 100 scarves, which also sold out. On the third day, I carried 150 scarves, and they were still all sold out.
The owner was very happy and said to me, “I still have seven or eight years of stock in the warehouse. From tomorrow onwards, for each silk scarf you sell, I will charge two yuan for the cost and the rest will be yours.”
No cost small business, and so I began.
Morning and evening stall to make money, do two cleaning a part-time job
Only sleep 2 to 3 hours, “I insisted on this for 3 years”
Online store work is 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, the rest of the time can do other. One morning, I passed by a breakfast stall, it says “transfer”, tricycle, gas tank, including cold skin, fried noodles, fried river noodles and mixed grain pancake recipe, a total of 3,000 yuan. The owner also promised to teach me hands-on for two days.
From then on, I did breakfast and night market together.
The schedule set by big sister
1, wake up at 3 o’clock every day, go out to sell breakfast, but also with a silk scarf (summer change to short-sleeved and beach pants), two together to sell.
2, after selling breakfast, go to A company as a cleaning lady, this job is a colleague to help me find online.
3, 9:30 closing, just to go to work in the online store.
4、From 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., I worked as a cleaning lady in company B.
5、From 5:00 to 6:30, do cleaning and cooking as a part-time worker.
6、After 7pm, go to the night market to set up a stall and close at 12pm.
7, and then find some part-time jobs on weekends, selling milk, flyers, what to do.
3 am is the most sleepy time, I am afraid to miss work, set several alarms. Winter on the road is very cold, busy up not cold, but also hot body. I sell breakfast quickly, because in addition to taste and hygiene, the most important thing is the speed of breakfast.
Breakfast sold well, a morning can earn 200 yuan, sometimes even 300 yuan. If the night market silk scarves sell well, there are three to four hundred yuan of profit a night, at which point I reward myself with an extra steamed bun for lunch the next day.
The morning market and night market people and cab drivers are very similar, no opportunity to go to the toilet, most of the time have to hold their own, so I rarely drink water.
The morning market does not need to shout, people who eat breakfast will come by themselves. The night market will need to shout, attracting passers-by to take a look at all good. Tired of yelling, I will eat dinner (steamed buns and pickles), while chatting with the people next to the stall. Three people must have my teacher, listen to the ideas of others, but also can be combined with their own situation to apply.
Big sister setting up a stall at the night market
Later, I took on 2 more jobs as a cleaning lady. The morning A company is two floors, 2 hours a day, 4300 yuan a month, double off, which is equivalent to 100 yuan per hour, the treatment is very good. But every time you go to work, it’s like entering a palace, you have to be careful about everything. I can’t say which words or actions will make the receptionist or others uncomfortable.
From 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., I went to Company B to work as a cleaning lady. This job was introduced by the owner of Company A in the morning.
The first proprietor was an employee of Company B for the evening hourly job. The bellhop relied on word of mouth, and I said to myself, “I must seize this opportunity.” I was particularly serious about both cleaning and cooking. When I met a good proprietor, they would give me some unused items and I would charge less. There are also harsh proprietors, so I told myself, “Take it as a practice.”
I was lucky, if I hadn’t been introduced by the owner of company A, I wouldn’t have gotten the job from company B. Without that employee from Company B, there would not be a job for a part-time worker. On the other hand, because I am practical and willing to work, they are willing to look for me.
It’s slow to save money by working part-time, but it’s much better to start a small business. I’m lucky to have a good boss and a regular job and income. I set up a stall in the morning and evening to earn money, do two jobs as a cleaning lady and a part-time job, save money, sleep only two or three hours a day, so persist for three years.
3 years to pay off debts, but also bought a house in Hangzhou
“Anything when you take the initiative to face, the difficulty will drop”
Three years later, I paid off the previous debts and saved some money. After my dad died, my mom was alone in my hometown, and I wanted her to move over. Just like that, I bought my first suite in Hangzhou, a hotel-style apartment. The price of the house was okay in those years, with a down payment of 150,000 and a full payment of just 300,000.
After the house arrived, my mother had not yet come over, so I rented it out first and used the rent to pay off the mortgage.
The house I bought in Hangzhou
I did a few years in the online store, the boss’s wife gave me an old computer for me to learn shipping, and also gave me a used battery car, before I can not ride a car, are taking the bus. The battery car is good to learn, but learning computer is really hard for me. I can’t even turn on and off the computer, and I can’t recognize all the letters on the keyboard. I drew three keyboards and put them in the bathroom at home, in my bag and in my clothes pocket. Every time the shippers had dinner, I ran to ask for advice, often remembered today, and tomorrow I forgot. I was afraid that people laugh, every other day to ask someone else.
I finally learned that the key with the turn of the cut head is called “enter key”, so I wrote “enter key” on the keyboard that I drew. Each key is marked in this way, and when I go to the bathroom, I take it out and look at it.
I learned to turn on and off the computer. But when I opened the computer web page, the mouse did not listen to the command, and it was always wrong. Why am I so stupid? I can’t help but scold myself. I kept learning and asking questions, treating myself like a child, and I relearned Pinyin, which I had never learned before. I couldn’t type blind, so I used a few fingers to tap the keyboard.
When I was very skilled in computer shipping, my salary also rose to 4500 yuan. I told my former friends, they were particularly surprised.
In fact, when you take the initiative to face anything, the difficulty will come down!
Bought a second suite and then ran into an Epidemic
Opened 2 Taobao store
Over the past few years, my relationship with my boss’s wife has become better and better. I sometimes reflect on myself, why I always fall in the relationship? Instead of being cheated, why not save the money to buy a house.
In 2017, I used my savings plus the 270,000 yuan my boss’s wife lent me to make a down payment and buy a second home in my hometown of Chongqing.
In the next three years, I became more frugal, working four or five jobs a day, and finally finished paying off what my boss’s wife owed me.
In 2020, because of the epidemic, many companies laid off their employees. I used to work as a cleaning lady in two units, as well as morning and evening stalls, evening hourly jobs, and part-time jobs on weekends, all of which were gone.
All of a sudden I became a person without a source of income.
Thinking about it, I am ready to put the previous stall on the Internet, open a Taobao store. When I will figure out, maybe by the time the courier also resumed, you can ship money.
After making up my mind, I began to ask my former colleagues, how to open a Taobao store, ask at least two questions a day, and then practice their own operations. I’m 50 years old, poor memory, and uneducated, notebooks to remember the two big books, forget to flip. Still can not solve, and then ask colleagues.
So I kept practicing, and no one supervised me, I supervised myself, forced myself, tired of watching videos of cooking on Shake.
I put up every link to the Taobao store, uploading pictures, typing up the content, typesetting, sometimes forgetting to save, and then to start all over again.
Screen stare for a long time, the eyes are bloodshot. I do not know how many times I cried, finally, my Taobao store opened.
I opened two stores at once, one selling silk scarves, one selling middle-aged and elderly short-sleeved and beach pants. Business is not particularly good, but it is better than no income. After the resumption of express delivery, the two Taobao stores now have a net profit of nearly 5,000 yuan.
I saw a passage on the Internet: adults fall, first look around to see if there is anyone, someone will stand up and continue to walk, next to no one will shed tears. Children fall, will also first look around, someone will cry, no one will get up and continue to walk.
I think this passage suits me very well.
When I think back to the visions I had when I first came to Hangzhou, I wanted to find a job soon, to bring my mother and son here, to have a house of my own in Hangzhou, and to have a partner that I could spend the rest of my Life with, but only the last one remains to be realized.
However, I already have a target candidate, and I hope I have not chosen the wrong person this time. The struggle in the face of adversity has brought praise.
What do you think of this big sister’s struggle?
Big sister go!
People who struggle hard are the most beautiful!
Blessings!
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